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DOI :10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466   IUP :10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466    Full Text (PDF)

Potential Employees’ Impression Management Tactics and Human Resource Management Professionals’ Perspectives

Yağmur Bakanoğlu, Emel Esen, Selin Karaca Varinlioğlu

This research aims to determine the impression management tactics used by potential employees that are important to employers in the job market, particularly in their curriculum vitaes (CVs) and interviews during the application process, and to identify which tactics are the most important to human resources (HR) specialists. The study has employed within its scope semi-structured interviews that allow a thorough examination of the participants’ feelings, attitudes, and thoughts with 45 potential employees and eight HR professionals. The study findings reveal that potential employees mostly prefer the tactics of building a favorable image, self-promotion, and supplication, whereas they use exemplification tactics less. Similar to these results, HR professionals also highlighted the tactics of building a favorable image, self-promotion, and supplication in recruitment interviews. The study results are expected to be beneficial for creating a more positive image of potential candidates in the labor market, both during the recruitment interviews and the job application stage.

Keywords: impression management, self-presentation, human resources, potential employees, job application
JEL Classification : M1 , M10 , M12

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Bakanoğlu, Y., Esen, E., & Karaca Varinlioğlu, S. (2023). Potential Employees’ Impression Management Tactics and Human Resource Management Professionals’ Perspectives. Istanbul Management Journal, 0(95), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466


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Bakanoğlu Y, Esen E, Karaca Varinlioğlu S. Potential Employees’ Impression Management Tactics and Human Resource Management Professionals’ Perspectives. Istanbul Management Journal. 2023;0(95):53-64. https://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466


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Bakanoğlu, Yağmur, and Emel Esen and Selin Karaca Varinlioğlu. 2023. “Potential Employees’ Impression Management Tactics and Human Resource Management Professionals’ Perspectives.” Istanbul Management Journal 0, no. 95: 53-64. https://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466


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Bakanoğlu Y, Esen E, Karaca Varinlioğlu S. Potential Employees’ Impression Management Tactics and Human Resource Management Professionals’ Perspectives. Istanbul Management Journal [Internet]. 7 May. 2024 [cited 7 May. 2024];0(95):53-64. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466 doi: 10.26650/imj.2023.95.1386466


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Submitted05.11.2023
Accepted13.12.2023
Published Online26.12.2023

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