Making the Cut

"Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization, or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment. To date, research has largely focused on how these experiences shape workers' well-being, rather than how hiring agents perceive and treat job applicants who have moved through these positions. Shifting the focus from workers to hiring agents, Making the Cut explores how key gatekeepers--HR managers, recruiters, talent acquisition specialists--evaluate workers with nonstandard, mismatched, or precarious employment experience"--