The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the recruitment of early careers talent: evolution or revolution?
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the recruitment of early careers talent: evolution or revolution?
The purpose of this research is to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global chance event on the attraction and selection process for summer internships, year in industry placements, and graduate schemes via two research questions. (1) To what extent has the attraction and selection process been impacted by COVID? (2) What does this mean for the future? The research framework combines the chaos theory of careers and chance event theory to underpin a qualitative methodology based on 36 semi-structured interviews with Careers Advisors and Graduate Recruiters. The interviews were loaded into NVIVO to facilitate thematic analysis. The theoretical contribution comes through the application of chaos theory of careers to understand how COVID as a global chance event influences the recruitment of early careers talent. The practical contribution comes through understanding what aspects of the attraction and hiring process have changed due to COVID, what aspects have stayed the same, and what this means going forward. Subsequently, universities and organisations can become more informed of best practices leading to enhanced employability and employment chances for students and recent graduates, and higher quality of applicants for organisations from which to hire their internship, placement, and graduate cohorts.
British Academy of Management
Donald, William
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Ashleigh, Melanie
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1 September 2021
Donald, William
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Ashleigh, Melanie
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Donald, William, Baruch, Yehuda and Ashleigh, Melanie
(2021)
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the recruitment of early careers talent: evolution or revolution?
In Proceedings of the BAM2021 Conference.
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The purpose of this research is to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global chance event on the attraction and selection process for summer internships, year in industry placements, and graduate schemes via two research questions. (1) To what extent has the attraction and selection process been impacted by COVID? (2) What does this mean for the future? The research framework combines the chaos theory of careers and chance event theory to underpin a qualitative methodology based on 36 semi-structured interviews with Careers Advisors and Graduate Recruiters. The interviews were loaded into NVIVO to facilitate thematic analysis. The theoretical contribution comes through the application of chaos theory of careers to understand how COVID as a global chance event influences the recruitment of early careers talent. The practical contribution comes through understanding what aspects of the attraction and hiring process have changed due to COVID, what aspects have stayed the same, and what this means going forward. Subsequently, universities and organisations can become more informed of best practices leading to enhanced employability and employment chances for students and recent graduates, and higher quality of applicants for organisations from which to hire their internship, placement, and graduate cohorts.
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Published date: 1 September 2021
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British Academy of Management 35th Conference (2021), Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2021-08-31 - 2021-09-03
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