Video Interviews as Technical Manpower Recruiting Tools for Small Technology Firms

该项目由化学部和美国国家科学基金会的小企业计划共同支持，率先开发了一种实验方法，使密歇根大学化学博士毕业生的才华和能力引起与化学相关的小企业的注意。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，然后应要求分发给正在寻找具有毕业生所代表的化学领域专业知识的新员工的小企业。这项工作的目的是促进小企业对这些新的化学博士提供的技术创新能力的认识，因为这些小企业没有广泛的招聘基础设施。在过去的18个月到两年里，博士化学家的新工作大多是在小企业，而不是在大型化工公司。密歇根大学化学系认识到了这一趋势，以及小企业招聘美国最杰出的新博士人才所面临的困难，因此制定了一项计划，利用对新博士毕业生的视频采访，向潜在的小企业雇主展示这些年轻科学家的才华。该项目的成功可能会对未来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.