RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION AT GOOGLE
Google is consistently ranked by Fortune magazine as one of the best places to work. It provides employees with excellent pay and a series of perks that are unheard of at most corporations. Some of these perks are flex hours; bring your dog to work; casual dress; on-site free massage and yoga; free snacks, drinks, and meals; and a child care centre among many others. No wonder Google receives close to three million job applications a year.
Questions:
1. Is Google’s elaborate recruitment and selection system justified? What are appropriate criteria for assessing its effectiveness?
2. Google receives over 3,000,000 applications for 7000 positions. Is this an effective approach? How might you introduce efficiency and effectiveness to processing such large numbers of applications?
3. What attributes might Google use in selecting “team players”? How might they recruit and assess for these attributes?
4. Does “peer-based hiring” lead to better employees? Argue your point.
