Definition
Personnel security recruitment refers to activities that influence the number and types of applicants who apply for a security-related position, remain in the applicant pool, and accept an employment offer (Breaugh 2008).
Introduction
Traditionally, companies have relied on IT departments and firewalls to protect information, and employees have been viewed as the weakest link. Increasingly, however, companies are relying on employees to be the first line of defense, and thus human resources processes and policies are becoming imperative to protecting organizations from risks and violations of security. There are three major ways that employees can engage in security breaches in organizations. First, employees can be manipulated by outside influences such as hackers or phishing schemes. For example, in 2015, the US finance team at Ubiquiti made a multimillion dollar transfer for a senior executive, only to later find out that a criminal was posing as the executive (Sollars 2016...
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Acikgozy, Y. & Bergman, S. M. (2016). Social media and employee recruitment: Chasing the run away bandwagon. In R. N. Landers, G. B. Schmidt, R. N. Landers, G. B. Schmidt (Eds.), Social media in employee selection and recruitment: Theory, practice, and current challenges, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland (2016), pp. 175–195
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Compagnone, M., Hickman, D., Acikgoz, Y. (2021). Personnel Security: Recruitment. In: Shapiro, L.R., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70488-3_215
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