Recruitment and Selection in Europe: One step beyond

Abstract

This Special Issue of the Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology [Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones] represents research findings from members of the European Network of Recruitment and Selection Researchers (ENESER) on challenging and timely themes in the field of recruitment/selection. ENESER was established in June 2011 in Athens under the auspices and with the support of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychologists (EAWOP) and the Athens University of Economics and Business (Nikolaou, Anderson, & Salgado, 2012). One of its goals (ENESER; http://www.eneser.org) is to bring together academics that carry out applied research in the areas of recruitment, selection, and assessment in Europe and beyond. Another goal is to act as a community for practitioners that are interested in scientific advances and actually support/conduct research in this area. Inspired by the Mediterranean Sea and the wisdom heritage from the ancient Greeks, Dr. Ioannis Nikolaou successfully organized the first ENESER meeting, thereby paving the way for the second ENESER meeting organized by Prof. Rosalind Searle held in June 2012 in Sheffield (UK), surrounded by the greenness of the British Peak District. More than twenty European participants from Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, actively took part in the presentations and gave thoughtful feedback to authors, building up an exciting scenario for future research collaborations. Some of the papers in this Special Issue were presented at this second ENESER meeting. In total, we selected one theoretical and four empirical papers (two lab studies and two field studies) from five different countries (i.e., Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and The Netherlands) that include a variety of topics relevant to both academics and practitioners and consider personnel selection from diverse perspectives.