Employers' Recruitment Practices : The 1992 Survey

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The specific aims of this study were as follows : to provide Employment Service economists with data to update estimates of the quantifiable resource and exchequer costs and benefits of the Employment Service's placing activities; to obtain a comprehensive account of employers' current recruitment practices in order to show whether there were gaps or duplications in the service provided by the Employment Service; to assess in the wider labour market context the appropriateness of employers' current recruitment activities; to assess the scope for the Employment Service to influence employers' behaviour with a view to increasing the efficiency of operation of labour markets. More generally, the research was intended to provide an understanding of employers' use and perception of the various recruitment channels available to them. Such information would help inform decisions about the direction and marketing of the Employment Service in the 1990s. It would also help to show to what extent the public receives value for the money it invests in the service. Previous similar surveys were conducted in 1982 and 1988, but these are not held at the Data Archive. An earlier study, <i>Survey of Employers Recruitment Practices, 1976-1977</i>, carried out by SCPR on behalf of the Employment Service Agency (then part of the Manpower Services Commission) is available at the Archive under SN:1412.

Main Topics:

The survey covers : recruitment channels; number of engagements; responsibility for selection; conditions of employment (hours, wages, etc.); contact with Jobcentres; attitudes to the Employment Service; awareness of Employment Service activities; equal opportunities.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

by size of establishment

Face-to-face interview

Telephone interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3694-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=48c2bc5c2dffd9206dc7599ab5b7ebeb4110a8211f7baf08fc1bc0d1d22f201e
Provenance
Creator Hales, J. M., Social and Community Planning Research
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1999
Funding Reference Employment Department, Employment Service
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Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain