Abstract
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate whether human resource professionals could identify job embeddedness characteristics in applicant résumés and subsequently rate the résumés with these characteristics more favorably. Participants rated the hireability of résumés via electronic survey for a specific job description. Participants also completed a self-assessment personality inventory and evaluated inferred traits on résumés to determine if there may be a similar-to-me effect in the ratings. The study consisted of 162 participants from 35 states, 95 female and 25 male with an average age of 45 and 14.8 years in the HR industry. Results indicated that HR Professionals rated résumés with more job embeddedness characteristics more favorably; however there was no support for a similar-to-me effect based on inferred personality characteristics in the résumés. These results further support the utility of the theory of job embeddedness.