Annotated Bibliographies on the Use of Social Media in Recruitment

This article provides annotated bibliographies on the use of social media in recruitment. It discusses the effects of media richness and source credibility on organizational attraction. The articles explore the ethical issues, recommendations, and the role of social media in recruiting for clinical trials and graduate students.

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Frasca, K. J., & Edwards, M. R. (2017). Web-based corporate, social and video recruitment
media: Effects of media richness and source credibility on organizational attraction.
International Journal of Selection & Assessment, 25(2), 125–137.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsa.12165
The article reports that despite the utilization of social media in the course of recruiting
graduates into employment sectors, there is still the need to evaluate how such usage of media is
different with the use of websites together with videos in influencing individuals that seek a job.
Therefore, a study on this article is essential as it draws views from different recruitment, media
richness, along with theories of source credibility on how media usage impacts the process of
recruitment. For instance, the authors of this article proposed that the social media that are used
to present material of recruitment possess a huge impact on organizational appeal through
insights of media prosperity along with the reliability of the source. In this article, the authors
focus on examining the utilization of social media in enrollment by focusing on usage of three
hundred with thirty-two participants holding or working towards a degree. The outcome of the
study in this context records that the standardized recruitment message is delivered through the
application of different social media platforms. They include Twitter, video, otherwise content-
based web address that are important amid prosperity of media along with different in the
credibility of the source of information. Additionally, this article reports that particular media
richness features tend to have a positive relation to perceptions of the credibility of the source of
information. Source credibility perception according to the outcome of this article was positively
connected to the attraction of an individual towards an organization during the process of
recruitment.

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Gelinas, L., Pierce, R., Winkler, S., Cohen, I. G., Lynch, H. F., & Bierer, B. E. (2017). Using
Social Media as a Research Recruitment Tool: Ethical Issues and
Recommendations. American Journal of Bioethics, 17(3), 3–14.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2016.1276644
This article records that the utilization of social media acts as the staffing tool. The
researchers reported that application of social media in most cases remain to be the recruitment
device for research. The use of such a tool in the views of surveyors is increasing and probably
will continue to progress. However, from the study, it is evident that despite the utilization of
social media as enrollment tool, up to present times there is no particular regulatory
management, and there exist very modest in the bioethics writing work to offer appropriate guide
researchers. According to the article, boards that deal with reviews in different institutions are
presently faced with navigating the ethical concerns on the application of social media in
deployment in different organizations. In methodology, the study proposes a well-structured
technique for assessing proposals of social media staffing. In conclusion, this article records that
prevalence together with the status of societal media is merely probable to develop and with it,
there is a request of applying social medium as the tool of staffing. This critique illustrates that
utilization of social media serves as the roadmap for an ethical perspective in a recruitment
process that is valuable in attaining best candidate for a given task.
Shere, M., Zhao, X. Y., & Koren, G. (2014). The Role of Social Media in Recruiting for
Clinical Trials in Pregnancy. PLoS ONE, 9(3), 1–9.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092744

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The article records that societal media performs an essential function in staffing process
for medical tests in pregnancy. It is clear from this report that staffing of women in the phase of
periconceptional to medical investigation by traditional publicity through medical formations is
always sluggish and difficult. With present application of internet around the global society as a
source for medical research and data, the article analyzes the influence of societal medium in the
subsequent stage of the union deliberately, unlock-tag medical test amongst expectant ladies.
This article assesses the success of social media to be a staffing tool. It is reported that poor
recruitment within the use of social media can be the major obstruction to the winning together
with proficient achievement of the test of clinic. From the study conducted on this context, it
reported that clinicians alongside scientist responsible for clinical studies need to study how to
utilize online societal media policies. The use of these platforms can help in improving rates of
recruitment and then increasing efficiency as well as cost-effectiveness of recruitment. The
authors’ records that application of societal media remains to be online podium that can allow a
discourse among recruits within the online societies. Therefore, according to the outcomes of
study in this article, the authors stated that there is the need for regular updating of social ads by
making sure that they are always just about the top and possess the opportunity to be most
regularly interpret as a way of increasing recruitment process.
Romero-Hall, E. (2017). Posting, Sharing, Networking, and Connecting: Use of Social
Media Content by Graduate Students. TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to
Improve Learning, 61(6), 580–588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-017-0173-5
The major objective of this research article was to recognize students’ application of
ideas distributed in the means of societal media of their curriculums. It also investigates the

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apparent influence of societal media space that has always had a space on the transformation of
graduate students as professionals. The study used in this article comprised of 77 instructional
plans together with skills that learners that have graduate completed the electronic well-
structured questionnaire. The result in the study within this article reveals that though learners
utilize social media platforms for their duties, they are not constant supporters or members of
societal media seats of their instructional design and technology that is useful in recruitment.
However, graduate students that effectively use social media tend to get different ads that give
them the opportunity to e recruited in different advertised posts within the platforms. Therefore,
this article records that social media provides the best platforms that different companies use to
post their ads for graduate learners to apply for as they make an appointment to be recruited. The
other feelings of using social media in recruitment array from mind-set of fitting to the society of
instructional design and technological usage during the recruitment process.
Odwazny, L. M. (2017). The “Nonexceptionalism” of Social Media Used for Subject
Recruitment. American Journal of Bioethics, 17(3), 17–19.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2016.1274803
This article focuses on illustrating the non-exceptionalist view towards utilization of
social media for the course of recruitment. It reports that the use of such platforms of societal
media for enrolment is the favored approach that is essential towards maximization of ethical
principle together with standards that are always applicable to survey in human subjects. The
focus of the authors of this article is justifiably alongside admittedly constrict to appropriately
tackle ethical concerns offered by the context of theme recruitment and authoritarian agencies
concerning the manner moral and regulatory deliberations are tangled would prove helpful to the

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synchronized society. Therefore, through study conducted by the researcher on this article,
different recommendations need to be taken care of while using social media in recruitment. The
transparency issue remains to be the most prominent considerations apart from very partial
circumstances where surveyors should not utilize trick to achieve the right admission to online
society. Besides, the article concludes by recording that the application of societal media for
issue of staffing have been evaluating as well as endorsing to improve policies of recruitment in
different organization globally. The authors recommend that the suitable deliberation offered to
the functions of societal media in topic of staffing is precious of ongoing concentration.