1. Personalization effects in recruitment advertising: the mediating role of considerateness
- Author
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Jean Pfiffelmann, Nathalie Dens, Sebastien Soulez, Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon, Faculty of Applied Economics, and University of Antwerp (UA)
- Subjects
Personal Sense of Uniqueness ,Online Advertising ,Considerateness ,Personalization ,[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration ,Need for Cognition ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences - Abstract
International audience; Across two between-subjects online experiments, we demonstrate that personalizing Facebook job advertisements with the integration of personal information in the ad increases job-pursuit intention through perceived considerateness (i.e., the feeling of being considered). Study 1 shows that need for cognition moderates the influence of personalization on considerateness, so that high need for cognition individuals do not experience considerateness when being exposed to a personalized ad containing both their first name and profile picture. Study 2 shows that only individuals with a strong personal sense of uniqueness experience considerateness when being exposed to a personalized ad containing only their first name. Therefore, the mechanism by which personalization transmits its effect on job-pursuit intention through considerateness is conditioned by personal traits. Our paper contributes to the understanding of personalized recruitment advertising by revealing a new working mechanism of ad personalization and its conditional process.
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- 2019