Video Interviews as Technical Manpower Recruiting Tools for Small Technology Firms

该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）化学分部和小企业计划联合支持，率先开发了一种实验方法，将密歇根大学化学博士毕业生的才能和能力吸引到小型化学相关企业的注意。在一项名为“密歇根示范项目”的探索性项目中，化学系的迈克尔·莫里斯教授将协调对大约20至25名新毕业的化学博士的采访进行专业录像，随后应要求分发给那些寻找在这些毕业生所代表的化学领域具有专业知识的新雇员的小企业。这项工作的目的是促进没有广泛招聘基础设施的小型企业对这些新的化学博士提供的技术创新能力的认识。在过去的18个月到两年里，大多数化学家博士的新工作都是在小型企业，而不是大型化学公司。认识到这一趋势，以及小企业在招聘全国最优秀的新博士队伍中所面临的困难，密歇根大学化学系制定了一项计划，利用对新博士毕业生的录像面试，作为向潜在的小企业雇主展示这些年轻科学家才能的一种手段。这个项目的成功将对未来的雇主如何寻找和确定有前途的年轻科学家进行招聘产生重大影响。

This project, jointly supported by the Chemistry Division and the Small Business Program of NSF, pioneers the development of an experimental approach to bringing the talents and capabilities of PhD chemistry graduates of the University of Michigan to the attention of small chemically related businesses. In an exploratory venture termed the Michigan Demonstration Project, Professor Michael Morris of the Department of Chemistry will coordinate the professional videotaping of interviews with some twenty to twenty-five newly minted chemistry PhDs for subsequent distribution, upon request, to small businesses who seek new employees with expertise in those areas of chemistry represented by the graduates. The intent of this exercise is to facilitate awareness on the part of small businesses, which do not have extensive recruiting infrastructure, of the capabilities for technological innovation offered by these new chemistry PhDs. During the past eighteen months to two years, the majority of new jobs for PhD chemists have been in small businesses rather than in large chemical corporations. Recognizing this trend and the difficulties attendant to small businesses recruiting the nation's most outstanding talent among the ranks of new PhDs, the University of Michigan chemistry department has developed a plan to use videotaped interviews of their new PhD graduates as a means of displaying the talents of these young scientists to potential small business employers. The success of this project could impact markedly on how prospective employers seek out and identify promising young scientists for recruiting.