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The Trust of the Information from Employer Rating Platforms

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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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  1. University of Ludwigshafen, Ernst Boehe Street 4, 67059, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

    Tom Sander

  2. University of Latvia, Aspazijas Bulv. 5, Riga, Latvia

    Biruta Sloka

  3. Riga Stradiņš University, Dzirciema Street 16, Riga, Latvia

    Henrijs Kalkis

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    Jussi Ilari Kantola

  2. University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Tibor Barath

  3. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

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Sander, T., Sloka, B., Kalkis, H. (2018). The Trust of the Information from Employer Rating Platforms. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_21

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