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The Trust of the Information from Employer Rating Platforms

Authors : Tom Sander, Biruta Sloka, Henrijs Kalkis

Published in: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Employer rating platforms are an important platform for potential candidates to collect and provide information about employer. The research investigates the reason to use employer rating platforms by individuals. The focus is on the factor trust for employment rating platforms Trust is important for the exchange of information and use of employer rating platforms. This paper evaluates the factor of trust for the use of employment rating platforms. The analysis of empirical data obtained in survey has been processed with statistical analysis. The research has been done by survey with 514 participants who are living in Germany. The research provide the result that the use of employer rating platforms depends on demographic factors and there is a weak tendency that people trust employer rating platforms and they are aware that they can be manipulated with the information at employer rating platforms.

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Title: The Trust of the Information from Employer Rating Platforms
Authors: Tom Sander
Biruta Sloka
Henrijs Kalkis
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60371-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-60372-8

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_21

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