ADMS 2600 Lecture Notes - Unemployment Benefits, Human Resources Development Canada, Executive Search
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Labour shortage: overtime, contingent workers, external recruitment, transfer, promotion. Labour surplus: hiring freeze (hiring restricted, layoffs, job or work sharing, reduced workweek / part-time, early retirement, buy-outs (package, downsizing/restructuring (flatter structures) External when an organization communicates to the public that it has a vacancy sources: internet newspapers trade journals. Blind box ad - an ad where the name of the company is not identified. Respondents are asked to reply to an intermediary. Used when a large number of applicants are expected (relieves organization from responding to everyone who applies) some individuals are reluctant to answer such ads (their own employer?) External employment agencies (3 types - depending on the type of clientele served) Human resources development canada / canada employment centres. May be conditional for employment insurance benefits. Charge for their services but offer more service e. g. screen applicants. Major difference between public and private: type of positions offered. Agency"s fee: absorbed by either employer and/or indirectly by employee.