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After you read this chapter, you should be able to:

Understand the importance of recruitment and selection to

strategic human resources management

Understand the recruitment techniques that public and nonprofi t

organizations use

Discuss how technology is changing recruitment and selection

procedures

Understand the tests and techniques used in selection

Understand legal concerns in the recruitment and selection

process

T

he need to adapt to rapidly changing situations requires agencies to

recruit and select qualifi ed individuals. Strategic human resources

management (SHRM) provides agencies with the opportunity to use

recruitment and selection to infl uence the operational strategy of pub-

lic and nonprofi t organizations. Recruitment is the process of attracting

qualifi ed candidates to apply for vacant positions within an organization.

Selection is the fi nal stage of the recruitment process, when decisions are

made as to who will be selected for the vacant positions. Both recruitment

and selection require effective planning to determine the human resources

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CHAPTER SEVEN

RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION IN THE

PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT SECTORS

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