the Recruitment and Training of Poll Workers: What We Know from Scholarly Research by Burden, Barry C., Milyo, Jeffrey

“…In every election an army of temporary poll workers must be recruited and trained to both assist the public in exercising the right to vote and to enforce the rules governing the voting process. …”
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Project manager selection: the decision process. by Swanson, Andrew G.

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Tipping Points: Referral Homophily and Job Segregation by Rubineau, Brian, Fernandez, Roberto M.

“…How does referral recruitment contribute to job segregation? Current theory emphasizes the segregated nature of job-seekers’ information and contact networks. …”
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Missing Links: Referrer Behavior and Job Segregation by Rubineau, Brian, Fernandez, Roberto M.

“…How does referral recruitment contribute to job segregation, and what can organizations do about it? …”
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Creating Connections For the Disadvantaged: Networks and Labor Market Intermediaries at the Hiring Interface by Fernandez, Roberto M.

“…Yet, there has been little empirical research on how such linkages work across the various steps of the recruitment, screening, and hiring process. We examine how labor market intermediaries can serve as functional substitutes for social network processes for disadvantaged workers. …”
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“From Counter-Society to Counter-State: Jemaah Islamiyah According to PUPJI” by Elena, Pavlova

“…Issued by Jemaah Islamiyah’s Central Executive Council (Qiyadah Markaziyah), it outlines the group’s administrative structure and guiding religious principles, in addition to providing insights into its organizational development, membership recruitment, and operational strategy. From the time Jemaah Islamiyah was established on January 1, 1993 – as the result of an internal split within the Darul Islam (DI) movement – until the time it first engaged in terrorist activities – with the Medan church bombings on May 28, 2000 – the group was structured and managed in accordance with this handbook. …”
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Soccer vs. Jihad : a draw by Dorsey, James M.

“…Bin Laden, Haniyeh and Nasrallah employ soccer as a recruitment and bonding tool based on the belief of Salafi and mainstream Islamic scholars who argue that Prophet Muhammad advocated physical exercise to maintain a healthy body. …”
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From Metaphors to Mechanisms: Gender Sorting In(to) an Organizational Hierarchy by Fernandez, Roberto M., Abraham, Mabel Botelho

“…With few exceptions, extant studies have focused on internal promotion practices and have not addressed the extent to which these patterns might reflect gender differences in external recruitment and hiring into the organization. We construct queues consisting of both external and internal candidates—the set of candidates under consideration—for over 2,200 job openings during a 27-month period for a large retail bank. …”
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Parental warmth buffers the effect of socioeconomic status on resilience during late childhood: evidence from a nationally representative birth cohort by Yu, Meryl, Kee, Michelle, Meaney, Michael, Law, Evelyn, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Chen, Helen Yu, Setoh, Peipei

“…A composite SES score was derived by averaging the standardized scores of maternal and paternal education and household income, reported by mothers at recruitment. Children reported resilience at age 10.5 with Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and parental care and overprotection at age 8.5 with Parental Bonding Instrument. …”
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Why Lead Labor?: Projects and Pathways in California Unions, 1984-2001 by Strauss, George, Voss, Kim, Ganz, Marshall

“…While other studies have focused on the careers of top leaders or new recruits, we examine the careers of rising leaders over time. …”
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Returning International Labor Migrants from Bangladesh: The Experience and Effects of Deportation by Kibria, Nazli

“…Studyparticipants were recruited with the cooperation and assistance of the community-based organization WARBE—the Welfare Association of Repatriated Bangladeshi Employees. …”
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STEM Crisis or STEM Surplus? Yes and Yes by Xue, Yi, Larson, Richard Charles

“…We conduct an in-depth analysis of the STEM labor market using a comprehensive literature review in conjunction with sources such as employment statistics, newspaper articles, and authors’ interviews with company recruiters. Our findings indicate a significant heterogeneity in the STEM labor market. …”
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Global jihad, sectarianism and the madrassahs in Pakistan by Ali Riaz

“…The paper argues that while encouragments from successive regimes, an unremitting flow of foreign funds (especially from Saudi Arabia), and the absence of governmental oversight are the principal factors in the dramatic rise in numbers, the transformation of Madrassahs into schools of militancy and the recruiting ground of 'global Jihadists' is intrinsically linked to the sectarianism prevalent in Pakistan. …”
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"Constructing" the Jemmaah Islamiyah terrorist : a preliminary inquiry by Kumar Ramakrishna

“…What is extremely significant is that while the embassy attack bore the imprint of senior JI bomb-maker Azahari Husin, he evidently had the assistance and support of new recruits. This suggests that the JI organization is regenerating itself. …”
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Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks by Aral, Sinan, Brynjolfsson, Erik, Van Alstyne, Marshall

“…To test our hypotheses, we characterize the social network of a medium sized executive recruiting firm using accounting data on project co-work relationships and ten months of email traffic observed over two five month periods. …”
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