Recruiting modifiers

Recruiting Talent

We propose a model of firm dynamics in which a firm’s primary asset is the talent of its workforce. Firms compete in wages to attract applicants, and managers seek to identify the most talented. Over time, a firm’s quality evolves as today’s recruits become tomorrow’s managers. We show that firm-applicant matching is positive assortative, with better firms posting higher wages and attracting be...

Property Modifiers

Recruiting Ant Colony System

We briefly describe an approach to extend the Ant Colony System by a group recruitment strategy. The underlying idea is very similar to the behavior of real ants, which use e.g. tandem-techniques to guide each other to large food sources. General investigations with small and medium sized colonies have shown that such strategies in combination with mass recruitment (pheromones) increase the foo...

Recruiting students for medicine.

The applicant-to-acceptance ratio in the nation's 127 medical schools has slowly but steadily declined during the last decade to 1.7:1 (60.5% acceptance rate) for the 1987-1988 academic year. The 28,123 applicants in this academic year represent a decrease of 3200 applicants from the previous year. The decline in the number of applicants is even more striking because it occurred despite the wel...

Recruiting a Star Team

knowing that I could deliver a large part of it by recruiting and working with a considerably expanded team of dedicated volunteers. By the time you read these lines, such a team will be in place. To promote openness in how Software is managed and to help those who want to undertake a similar exercise, here’s how we gathered 139 applications and recruited a team of 40 new regular volunteers and...