[pt] O presente estudo versa sobre o ingresso de jovens no Serviço militar obrigatório no Brasil, frente às transformações do mundo do trabalho e o cenário de aumento do desemprego e do trabalho precário, especialmente, entre a juventude brasileira. Tal cenário é inerente ao modo de produção capitalista, agravado em decorrência das transformações políticas, econômicas e sociais no Brasil e no mundo, desde as três últimas décadas do século XX. A análise histórica sobre o recrutamento no Brasil evidencia que o serviço militar não está relacionado apenas ao ato de recrutar homens para defesa de um território. As múltiplas funções exercidas pelo recrutamento, desde o século XVI, refletem relações de poder e disputas que permeiam cada contexto histórico. A fim de analisar o serviço militar obrigatório e o contexto de desemprego entre os jovens, foi realizada uma pesquisa em questionários respondidos por jovens que ingressaram no serviço militar obrigatório - SMO, no Grupo de Segurança e Defesa do Rio de Janeiro - GSD-RJ, Organização Militar da Força Aérea Brasileira - FAB, nos anos de 2016, 2017 e 2018. Observouse, na análise dos questionários, que estes jovens desejavam o ingresso no recrutamento e que pertencem a uma classe social específica, apesar da previsão legal de todas as classes serem representadas na prestação do serviço militar. Além de características deste grupo relacionadas à escolaridade, composição e situação de trabalho familiar, a pesquisa revelou as motivações e expectativas dos recrutas em relação à Instituição militar. Apesar de não ser o único fator motivador, foi possível constatar que o interesse pelo ingresso nas Forças Armadas, ainda que de forma temporária, através do serviço militar obrigatório, não está dissociado da necessidade de ingresso ou permanência destes no mercado de trabalho. / [en] This study analyzes the young people admission into mandatory military service in Brazil, given the transformations in the labor world and the scenario of increased unemployment and precarious labor, especially among Brazilian youth. This scenario is inherent to the capitalist way of production, aggravated as a result of the political, economic and social transformations in Brazil and in the world since the last three decades of the 20th century. The historical analysis of recruitment in Brazil shows that military service is not only related to the act of recruiting men to defend a territory. The multiple functions performed by this instrument, since the 16th century, reflect power relations and disputes that permeate each historical context. In order to analyze mandatory military service and the context of unemployment among young people, a survey was conducted on questionnaires answered by those who entered mandatory military service - SMO, in the Rio de Janeiro Security and Defense Group - GSD-RJ, Military Organization of the Brazilian Air Force - FAB, in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. It was observed, from questionnaires analysis, that these young people wanted to be recruited and that they belong to a specific social class, despite the legal definition of all classes being represented in the military service. In addition to the characteristics of this group related to education, composition and family employment situation, the research revealed the motivations and expectations of recruits in relation to the military institution. Despite not being the only motivating factor, it was found that the interest in joining the Armed Forces, even if temporarily, through mandatory military service, is not dissociated from their need to enter or remain in the labor market.

This study examines the similarities and differences between males and females from the Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White population in the Central Florida labor force regarding recruitment strategies and techniques of the Baby Boomers, Generation X and the Millennial population. The purpose of this study is to identify those Human Resources recruitment practices that are most effective in retaining: (1) males and females from the Hispanic population, and (2) whether or not theses recruitment tactics affect the generation groups differently. The proposed issues will be assessed by collecting information from organizations, current employees, and job applicants. This study will use three research methods in addressing the stated purpose and objectives: literature review, focus groups, and questionnaire surveys. The literature review will explore present recruitment techniques, social and cultural similarities and differences between Hispanics and Non-Hispanic White, and generational differences. The main goal of the focus groups is to identify relevant recruitment issues as stated by Central Florida organizations, current employees, and job applicants. From the literature review and results of the focus groups two surveys will be develop to determine: (1) present recruitment practices used by Central Florida organizations; and (2) preferred recruitment practices among Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites. The results of this study will identify whether certain recruitment practices perceived as being most appealing and desirable vary among Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites. Based on the findings, the study will provide recommendations for designing effective recruitment strategies for Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White males and females while accounting for possible generational differences.

M. Tech. (Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences), Vaal University of Technology. / With a rapid growth of internet technologies, many companies have transformed from the old traditional ways of recruiting employees to electronic recruitment (e-recruitment). E-recruiting channels achieved a solid advantage for both employers and job applicants by dropping advertising cost, applying cost as well as hiring time. Job recommender systems aim to help in people – job matching. In this research, a proposed mobile job employment recommender system is a client – server application that uses content – based filtering algorithm to enable the initial selection of a suitable leisure job seeker to a temporary job at a particular place and vice versa. A prototype of a mobile job recommendation application was developed to evaluate the algorithm. The evaluation matrix used to assess the prototype are precision, recall and the F-measure. The precision value was found to be 0.994, the recall value was 0.975 and the F1- score was 0.984. The experimental results of the proposed algorithm show the effectiveness of the system to recommend suitable candidates for jobs at a specified area. The recommender system was able to achieve its main aim of enabling the initial selection of suitable temporary job seekers to a temporary job at a particular place and vice versa. Thus, the results of the proposed algorithm are satisfactory.

Bakgrund: Konsultbolags främsta utmaning är att förse sina kunder med efterfrågad kompetens. De verkar inom en kunskapsintensiv bransch, där affärsidén kretsar kring deras mänskliga resurser. För att kunna tillgodose efterfrågan deras kunder har idag och i framtiden, krävs en inblick i vad för kompetens som organisationen innehar, för att kunna arbeta på ett långsiktigt sätt med detta. Då arbetsmarknaden idag består till största del av kvalificerade arbeten, så har konkurrensen kring att rekrytera människor med rätt erfarenhet och utbildning ökat. Konsultbolagen som intervjuats för denna studie hyr alla ut spetskompetens, vilket innebär personer med kompetens inom specifika arbetsområden. För att organisationer ska vara lönsamma, krävs att de klarar av att förutse framtidens krav, och kan kompetensförsörja utefter dem, via rekrytering, utveckling och genom att behålla kompetensen inom organisationen.Syfte: Studiens syfte är att öka förståelsen för hur konsultbolag arbetar strategiskt med kompetensförsörjning. Då konsultbolag verkar inom en kunskapsintensiv bransch, där affärsidén är att hyra ut spetskompetens, ämnar studien att undersöka hur de säkerställer att organisationen innehar rätt kompetens för att tillfredsställa kundernas efterfrågan idag, och i framtiden.Metod: Studien har genomförts med kvalitativ metod, med semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod. Sju informanter från lika många konsultbolag har svarat på intervjufrågor gällande arbetet med HR och kompetensförsörjning. Valet av metod grundas i studiens syfte, för att få djupare förståelse för konsultbranschens arbete med kompetensförsörjning.Slutsats: Resultatet av studien visar på att konsultbolagen som deltagit, arbetar med att rekrytera, utveckla och behålla kompetens för att tillgodose kunder med efterfrågad kunskap, men även att det skiljer sig mycket var fokus ligger från konsultbolag till konsultbolag. Studiens resultat visar på att de olika konsultbolagen arbetade med de olika delarna av kompetensförsörjning, men slutsatsen är att de inte sammankopplade aktiviteterna för att arbeta strategiskt med dem. Resultatet visar även att5kompetenskartläggning är av yttersta vikt för att konsultbolag ska kunna arbeta långsiktigt och effektivt med kompetensförsörjning. / Background: Consulting firms biggest challenge is to provide their clients with their required competence. Since consulting firms are active in a very knowledge-intense market, where the mission of their business is formed around the most efficient use of their human resources. The main goal is to provide their clients with their required competence, and to be able to do that they need to have good insight regarding what sort of competencies that are actually requested, both in short and long term. The market has gone from a fair mix of unqualified and qualified positions, to mostly qualified work positions. This means that the overall competitiveness has risen to a new level, and that means that companies are facing the challenge of wanting to recruit the same individuals. Companies that are active in these knowledge-intense markets need individuals that have the right experience combined with the right education, and that is a challenge.Purpose: The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of how consulting firms work strategically to provide their clients with required competence. Furthermore the study aims to examine how consulting firms make sure that they possess the required competence, today and in the future. Since there’s not a lot of previous research on the subject, this study hopes to open up for further research opportunities.Method: Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data for the study. Seven informants from seven consulting firms were asked questions about their HR-activities and how they supply their company with competence. The choice of method is based on the purpose of the study, to gain a deeper understanding for consulting firms challenges in their work with supplying competence.Conclusion: The conclusion of this study shows that all of the companies that took part, are working with recruiting, developing and retaining their human resources. The results also show that all of the consulting firms that took part in this study, all have a different approach to the parts of the process of supplying competence. Strategic approach is what is lacking in planning efforts for recruitment, development and retaining personnel. The consulting firms that participated all lack in connecting the HR-activities to reaching their companies main goal, to work in a strategic manner. The results also point to the7importance of competency mapping to be able to work with developing the company through their human resources in an efficient way.

The sports movement plays an important role in generating democratic upbringing and participationamong Sweden´s population. The assumption that sports associations constitute a school in democracyis well established in sports policy and is the basis for today's public sports support. Equality workoccurs within the sports movement where the Swedish Sports Confederation works to ensure thatwomen and men throughout the movement have the same power to shape sports and their ownparticipation and that no gender should be represented by less than 40 percent. This study aim todescribe and analyze election committees within wrestling associations in Sweden in their work ofrecruiting new and retaining existing board members from an equality and gender perspective. Byinterviewing seven people that represent different election committees, we were able to analyze thewrestling associations recruiting processes. The result shows that a recruitment process exists but is notinterpreted. The attitudes and perceptions of gender equality in a board are positive – several selectionboards advocate more women. The problem, however, lies in the fact that there the election committeeshave an androcentric approach which to some extent contributes to a reproduction of the powerrelations that exist within wrestling today, in order to break the structures and norms and succeed ingetting more women in, the associations may need more help from superiors

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This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics on the economics of science. The first chapter contribute to the understanding of fairness and recognition in innovation systems. The second and third chapters study the effect of government policies and university relocation on science and education outcomes respectively. The first paper, coauthored with Zihao Li, studies gender difference in innovation recognition using patent citations. We propose a method to quantify under-citation, by constructing a “should-cite” list for each of over 1.5 million patents based on textual similarity, using state-of-the-art natural language processing technique. We find that female-authored patents are approximately 12% more likely to be under-cited than male-authored patents. Additionally, male inventors are far more likely to under-cite patents written by female inventors. Our findings are consistent with the testable implications of taste-based discrimination but not statistical discrimination. Welfare analysis shows that past under-citations negatively impact future patenting activities, especially for female inventors. The second paper, coauthored with Elliott Ash, Mirko Draca and David Cai studies the impact of a large-scale scientist recruitment program – China’s Junior Thousand Talents Plan – on the productivity of recruited scholars and their local peers in Chinese host universities. Using a comprehensive dataset of published scientific articles, we estimate effects on quantity and quality in a matched difference-in-differences framework. We observe neutral direct productivity effects for participants over a 6-year post-period: an initial drop is followed by a fully offsetting recovery. However, the program participants collaborate at higher rates with more junior China-based co-authors at their host institutions. Looking to peers in the hosting department, we observe positive and rising productivity impacts for peer scholars, equivalent to approximately 0.6 of a publication per peer scholar in the long run. Heterogeneity analysis and the absence of correlated resource effects point to the peer effect being rooted in a knowledge spillover mechanism. The third paper studies the long run effect on local education outcomes of the temporary exodus of Chinese universities in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). During the war, over 80% of China’s universities, along with the top tiers of China’s educated talents were forced to relocate to inland underdeveloped areas during the war. We find that the large inflow of educated elite intellectuals and universities increased local supply of secondary schools by 6.6% during and after the war period, indicating the effect cascades to lower tiers of education. However, such trend does not persist into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) era and we find limited effect on local education outcomes in the long run. We discuss the salience of locational fundamentals and education policies in explaining the absence of persistence.

The purpose of this study is to investigate, through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, how social workers in the Stockholm area describe the phenomenon of recruiting children and youth to street gangs and how they experience their working conditions related to the target group. The theories New Public Management and the theory of social bonds are used as a theoretical framework. In the results, three main themes emerged; (1) you have no idea what you're saying yes to, (2) costs, the law and what we know works, and (3) it takes a village. The results show that the phenomenon of recruitment, based on descriptions, can be perceived in different ways. In the interviews, however, there is a predominant consensus and thephenomenon is explained on the basis that there has been a change regarding age and the attitudes of the target group. Even social relations, and bonds to society, are declared to be important. The result explains that the social workers’ consider themselves to have a good leeway for action despite several limitations. It appears that cost-effectiveness and follow-ups of results influence the work of the social workers and that a bureaucratic management strategy imminently shapes their work. / Studiens syfte är att genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och tematisk analys undersöka hur socialsekreterare i Storstockholm beskriver fenomenet rekrytering av barn och unga till gängkriminalitet samt deras upplevelser av sina arbetsförutsättningar relaterade till målgruppen. Som teoretiskt ramverk används teorierna New Public Management och teorin om sociala band. I resultatet framkom tre huvudteman; (1) du har ingen aning vad du säger ja till, (2) kostnader, lagrum och det vi vet funkar, samt (3) it takes a village. Resultatet visar att fenomenet rekrytering utifrån beskrivningarna kan uppfattas på olika sätt. I intervjuerna finns däremot en övervägande samstämmighet och fenomenet förklaras utifrån att det skett en förändring gällande ålder och målgruppens attityder. Även sociala relationer, och band till samhället, beskrivs som viktiga. Resultatet redogör att socialsekreterarna anser sig besitta ett gott handlingsutrymme trots flertalet begränsningar. Det framkommer att kostnadseffektivitet och resultatuppföljningar influerar socialsekreterarnas arbete och att en byråkratisk styrstrategi överhängande formar deras arbete.

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The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges that a Namibian bank faced in recruiting and retaining skilled employees. The study adopted a qualitative research approach and the data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 20 participants from the Namibian bank. The researcher used the Five-Phased Data Analysis Cycle as described by Yin (2011) to analyse the data. Ensuring trustworthiness, the researcher used Guba's Model of Trustworthiness as cited by Krefting (1990). The major findings of the study were the shortcomings in the Namibian bank remuneration structure, lack of training and no employee recognition. The recommendations of the study are that the Namibian bank needs to implement training and development for its employees, review its remuneration structure and demonstrate appreciation of staff by showing recognition, better salaries and incentives. / Business Management / M.Com. (Business Management)