Google is consistently ranked by Forene magazine is one of the best places to win It provides employees with excellent pay and a sents of perks that are unitiendo CASE STUDY RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION AT GOOGLE at most corporations Some of these parks are flex hours; bring your dog to wca casual dress; on-site free massage and vogas tree snacks, drinks, and meals, a child-care centre among many others. No wonder that Google recentes con to 3 million job applications a year To find the best talent, Google uses a. Tully selected strategies method, and techniques. Google recruits at college te university campuses and through the Careers section of its website Google very selective, hiring only about 2000 of the 3 million applicants Google different methods to select people for different jobs, but there are some common elements: preliminary screening, employment tests, interviews, and backgrour checks Google is looking for intelligence, creativity, leadership, and fit withese Google culture, as well as the role the person will play as part of Google Hiring decisions are not made by managers but having a committee composed of per make the decision, which is much like the process a university uses in hinng pro moting, and gratiting tenure te faculty, rather than hierarchical structures used in industry One can say that in many ways Giangle operate in the knowledge industrie much like a university, QUESTIONS The intent of this exercise is not to have you develop detailed answers but to bean thinkang abour the many factors that affect recronment and selection. We appreciate that the case does not contain detailed information but in our opinion that informa tion is not needed to meet our primary objective. We will review in detail mans the components of Goobs recruitment and selection procedures later in this text. For now, we would like you to discuss the following points. 1. Is Google's elaborate recruitment and selection system justitied? What to appropriate criteria for assessing its effectiveness