Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles
| dc.contributor.advisor | de Kock, Francois | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rauch, Philippa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-11T11:05:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-11T11:05:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-01-29T07:53:13Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The use of social networking sites, such as Facebook, in the job application screening process has changed the recruitment landscape. Many human resource (HR) professionals and recruiters have begun to use social networking sites as a tool to attract, source and screen potential candidates. When screening candidates’ Facebook profiles, recruiters make personality judgements that have important consequences for hiring decisions. However, little is known about what makes a good judge of personality in the world of online screening for recruitment. This study investigated the relationship between recruiters’ Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism) and their ability to judge accurately candidates’ personality traits from their Facebook profiles. In particular, distinctive accuracy measures were employed which account for personality profile normativeness, or the degree to which applicants being rated are generally alike – an important limitation of earlier profile accuracy measures. Results from 456 university students who judged five actual Facebook profiles for which ‘true score’ estimates on personality traits were possible, revealed that recruiters were generally able to infer applicants’ personality traits from their Facebook profiles. However, recruiter personality was not an important factor in their judgement accuracy, neither when accuracy was operationalised as traditional profile accuracy measures, nor as distinctive accuracy. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Rauch, P. (2018). <i>Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles</i>. (). ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Management Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31007 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Rauch, Philippa. <i>"Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles."</i> ., ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Management Studies, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31007 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rauch, P. 2018. Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Rauch, Philippa AB - The use of social networking sites, such as Facebook, in the job application screening process has changed the recruitment landscape. Many human resource (HR) professionals and recruiters have begun to use social networking sites as a tool to attract, source and screen potential candidates. When screening candidates’ Facebook profiles, recruiters make personality judgements that have important consequences for hiring decisions. However, little is known about what makes a good judge of personality in the world of online screening for recruitment. This study investigated the relationship between recruiters’ Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism) and their ability to judge accurately candidates’ personality traits from their Facebook profiles. In particular, distinctive accuracy measures were employed which account for personality profile normativeness, or the degree to which applicants being rated are generally alike – an important limitation of earlier profile accuracy measures. Results from 456 university students who judged five actual Facebook profiles for which ‘true score’ estimates on personality traits were possible, revealed that recruiters were generally able to infer applicants’ personality traits from their Facebook profiles. However, recruiter personality was not an important factor in their judgement accuracy, neither when accuracy was operationalised as traditional profile accuracy measures, nor as distinctive accuracy. DA - 2018 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - personality judgement KW - social media KW - social networking KW - Facebook KW - Big Five KW - selection KW - accuracy LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2018 T1 - Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles TI - Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31007 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31007 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Rauch P. Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles. []. ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Management Studies, 2018 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31007 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of Management Studies | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | |
| dc.subject | personality judgement | |
| dc.subject | social media | |
| dc.subject | social networking | |
| dc.subject | ||
| dc.subject | Big Five | |
| dc.subject | selection | |
| dc.subject | accuracy | |
| dc.title | Tell me about your (Facebook) self: recruiter personality traits and accuracy of personality judgement of candidate Facebook profiles | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MCom |