Our results indicate that males and females have about the same probability of being hired in a mixed pool of male and female applicants, independently of the type of vacancy. The probability of hiring a candidate of a certain sex is therefore determined by the gender composition of the pool of applicants who have selected themselves on the basis of job characteristics, hiring standards and the...

The hiring problem has been recently introduced by Broder et al. in last year’s ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2008), as a simple model for decision making under uncertainty. Candidates are interviewed in a sequential fashion, each one endowed with a quality score, and decisions to hire or discard them must be taken on the fly. The goal is to maintain a good rate of hiring while im...

This paper examines whether the theory of planned behavior (TPB) provides an effective model for predicting the intention of hiring managers to use Information Technology (IT) certification in the employee selection process. Little academic research has examined IT certification, an area important to firms and their hiring managers, educational institutions and their professors and students, as...