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Recruiting, hiring and employee selection — North Carolina

Keeping common recruiting practices legal

Recruiting methods can give rise to discrimination and other legal claims. Six recruiting methods are commonly used:

  1. online recruiting (including artificial interlleigence (AI)- aided recruitment)
  2. word-of-mouth recruitment
  3. nepotism recruitment in which those with some personal relationship to present employees are referred
  4. walk-in applicants
  5. third-party recruiters
  6. advertising/job posting.

Online recruiting

Online recruiting has the advantage of speeding up the hiring process by getting the word out quickly and widely at less cost than newspaper, radio or head hunters. Job search sites can be company sites that offer job listings, company profiles, virtual tours and even email communications with existing employees or commercial sites that offer job listings, company profiles and resume banks. 

The disadvantages of online recruiting are primarily two-fold. First, a number of advocacy groups contend that online recruiting is inherently discriminatory because of the purported demographics of Internet users (sometimes referred to as the "digital divide"). Second, online recruiting can result in very high-volume applicant flow. This problem can be addressed by considering resumes on a “first come...


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