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Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees
by Diane ArthurRecruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employeeshas long been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process. Packed with forms, checklists, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions, the revised and updated fifth edition provides readers with practical information on topics including interview methods, documentation issues, reference-checking, orientation programs, and applicant testing. The fifth edition has been brought completely up-to-date, addressing new legislation on FMLA, immigration, record keeping, I-9 compliance, and much more. Full of insights on the latest staffing challenges, this comprehensive guide explores changes in technology such as virtual interviews and recruitment, web-based orientations, and the use of electronic files and social media. Nothing is more important to the productivity of an organization than its hiring program. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employeesprovides readers with the tools they need to get employees on board and ready for long-term success.
Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting, and Orienting New Employees
by Diane ArthurA genuine classic, Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees is a practical guide to the employment process. Extensively revised, it contains forms, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions as well as advice on reference checking, interview methods, documentation issues, orientation programs, and applicant testing.From recruitment to orientation, this updated and accessible guide covers it all. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees has long been the go-to reference on every aspect of the employment process. Packed with forms, checklists, guidelines, and ready-to-use interview questions, the revised and updated edition provides readers with practical information on topics including interview methods, documentation issues, reference checking, orientation programs, and applicant testing.This updated edition has been brought completely up to date, addressing new legislation on FMLA, immigration, record keeping, I-9 compliance, and much more. Full of insights on the latest staffing challenges, this comprehensive guide explores changes in technology, such as virtual interviews and recruitment, web-based orientations, and the use of electronic files and social media. Nothing is more important to the productivity of an organization than its hiring program. Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees provides readers with the tools they need to get employees on board and ready for long-term success.
Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Different Employees
by Lionel Laroche Don RutherfordThe USA and Canada welcomes every year significant numbers of immigrant professionals who have high levels of formal education (Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D.) as well as extensive experience; yet a significant fraction of these immigrants are unemployed or underemployed. The purpose of this book is to help US and Canadian organizations make full use of the significant human capital that immigrants represent. This book will help organizations:• Modify their recruitment and selection process to avoid rejecting culturally different candidates for reasons that are not related to their ability to do the job • Develop and promote culturally diverse employees to ensure that they retain and capitalize on the new ideas that these employees bring Highly- practical the book is divided into two parts:-• The first part focuses on the recruiting process. It takes readers through the recruiting process used by most organizations and examines why cultural differences can throw this process off . The discussion is framed by an introduction explaining what cultural differences are and a description of cross-cultural communication issues and suggested solutions.• The second part examines the retention and promotion of culturally different employees. The turnover of culturally different people is often higher than average and they are proportionately less represented in the higher echelons of large organizations. The work examines the root causes of these issues and proposes solutions that individuals and organizations can implement.
Recruiting, Retaining and Releasing People
by Adrian MackayThe greater part of an HR budget is spent on recruitment and retaining good people is key to a company's success. This book contains essential and up-to-date material around recruitment and retention including those issues that are currently pressing on companies with regard to flexibilty, returning to work, coaching and skills shortages. The problems of retirement, redundancy and dismissal are also addressed which is an integral part but not included in many texts. It provides the student and the professional with one place to find all the aspects and consequences of good practice in recruitment and retention.
Recruiting, Selecting and Inducting New Staff in the Workplace (Institute of Learning & Management Super Series)
by Institute of Leadership & ManagementSuper series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).
Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians
by Patricia A. Kreitz JoAnn DeVriesSince the 1950s there has been a persistent shortage of sci-tech librarians, and as more librarians retire or change positions, the prospect looms that the profession will only depopulate further. Tackling this difficult challenge, Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians gathers together into one source the perspectives of top library administrators and managers as well as front-line librarians who present the latest research and practical strategies to find, train, and keep those valuable specialized professionals. This book explores in depth timely issues and presents creative perspectives and innovative solutions to this persistent problem in subject-specialized libraries.As the baby-boom generation of science and technology librarians begins to retire, training and keeping sci-tech librarians will become even more crucial. Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians discusses the “replacement gap” problem in libraries, including who should be recruited, how they should be trained, and how to retain them once hired. Several authors address the field’s long-standing specialist vs. generalist debate, bringing new data and experience-driven perspectives to this challenging issue.Topics in Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians include: updating the cultural image of librarians to make the profession more appealing a comprehensive literature review how to cultivate candidates who are dedicated to service and love research and learning practical approaches to improve the visibility and attractiveness of science librarianship the skills and support needed to become a successful science librarian an innovative program to recruit undergraduates an in-depth survey of practicing science and technology librarians the challenges of science librarianship in Africa library and information science educators as recruiters for sci-tech librarians creative strategies to recruit and retain librarians adapting aspects of first-year student retention programs as a model for library retention programs how professional competencies can be used for recruitment, training, and retention and more Recruiting, Training, and Retention of Science and Technology Librarians is a timely, important resource for college and university administrators, and public, special, academic, and government librarians.
Recruitingstrategien im Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarkt: Von Work-Life-Balance bis Employer Branding – der Status quo aus Sicht der Fach-, Nachwuchs- und Führungskräfte
by Daniel SchwarzenbergerDer demografische Wandel sowie die gesteigerte Bedeutung der individuellen Gesundheit lassen auch im Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarkt neue und interessante Tendenzen erkennen. Doch können die Einrichtungen diesen Ansprüchen in Angebot und Personal nachkommen? Und wie schafft es die Branche heute, ihre Beschäftigten fit für den Markt von morgen zu machen und dabei mit modernen und attraktiven Arbeitsmodellen das aktuelle und zukünftige Fachpersonal für sich zu begeistern?Neben einer Beschreibung des Status quo des Fitness- und Gesundheitsmarktes liegen die Hauptziele dieses Buches in der Analyse der durchgeführten Expertenbefragung sowie auf den daraus resultierenden Strategien, Handlungsempfehlungen und Checklisten.
Recruitment and Retention
by Bernard D. Rostker Jeremy M. Wilson William M. HixThis study presents recommendations to improve recruiting and retention in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). The recommendations, tailored to the unique circumstances of the NOPD, include using civilian employees for some jobs now performed by officers; developing a proactive recruiting program; providing housing; increasing the frequency of promotion examinations; eliminating the backlog of promotions; restructuring compensation; establishing a first-responders charter school; and rebuilding the police infrastructure.
Recruitment and Selection: Revised Edition (Management Extra Ser.)
by ElearnStuck for ideas, inspiration or just want to work differently? Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. The books are practical and well structured to provide an in depth treatment of these management topics. Titles in the series: * Business Environment * Change Management * Development for High Performance * Effective Communications * Financial Management * Information and Knowledge Management * Leadership and Management in Organisations * Leading Teams * Making Sense of Data and Information * Managing Markets and Customers * Managing for Results * Managing Health, Safety and Working Environment * Managing Legal and Ethical Principles * Managing Yourself * Positive Working Relationships * Project Management * Quality and Operations Management * Reaching Your Goals Through Innovation * Recruitment and Selection * Reputation Management The series fuses key theories and concepts with applied activities to help managers examine how they work in practice. The books are created with individuals in mind. They are designed to help you improve your management skills. Management Extra can also be used in conjunction with management programmes of study aligned to standards. Each of the books has case studies, self assessments and activities all underpinned by knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and techniques required to improve performance. Management Extra provides managers and trainers with a handbook for action and development. "You found it – what a find! A practical resource packed with all the relevant theory and suggested activities to support your professional development. An essential resource to have at your fingertips, jump in and enjoy."--Russell Jeans, Learning and Development Manager, ntl "All the essential concepts are here, presented in an easily digestible format with lots of up to date case studies and references – but, most importantly, with plenty of thought provoking activities and self-diagnostic exercises to make the learning personal and transferable."--Peter Manning, Head of Training & Development, News International Newspapers Ltd
Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning & Assessment
by Carrie A. PicardiThe workforce is changing and talent management is more important than ever. Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning & Assessment unpacks best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies for hiring the right people. Using a proven job analysis framework, author Carrie A. Picardi uses her academic and industry experience to teach students how to assess candidates in an accurate, legal, and ethical manner. With clarity and relevance, this book truly bridges theory and concept with practice in an engaging manner and will benefit students who need to hit the ground running to successfully manage workforce needs and activities in a myriad professional settings.
Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning & Assessment
by Carrie A. PicardiThe workforce is changing and talent management is more important than ever. Recruitment and Selection: Strategies for Workforce Planning & Assessment unpacks best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies for hiring the right people. Using a proven job analysis framework, author Carrie A. Picardi uses her academic and industry experience to teach students how to assess candidates in an accurate, legal, and ethical manner. With clarity and relevance, this book truly bridges theory and concept with practice in an engaging manner and will benefit students who need to hit the ground running to successfully manage workforce needs and activities in a myriad professional settings.
Recruitment of a Star
by Boris Groysberg Jennifer Haimson Steve BalogDetails power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. It focuses on the dynamics of attracting, hiring, compensating, negotiating, and leveraging a star performer in a professional service firm. In particular, traces the detailed events from the resignation of a star to the manager's struggle to decide which of the eligible candidates should be hired. Four candidates and their firms are discussed in great detail. The case allows students to consider both individual (e.g., background, aspirations, attitudes, past short-term and long-term performance) and organizational (e.g., cultures, strategies, structures, performance management systems) factors in choosing a candidate to maximize individual-organization fit.
Recrutainment: Gamification in Employer Branding, Personalmarketing und Personalauswahl
by Joachim Diercks Kristof Kupka Lars J. JansenRecrutainment hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem deutlich sichtbaren und allgemein akzeptierten Instrument in der Personalgewinnung entwickelt: Immer mehr Organisationen setzen auf spielerisch-simulative Elemente in Berufsorientierung, Employer Branding, Personalmarketing und Recruiting. Recrutainment ist die Gamification der Personalgewinnung.Self-Assessments, unterhaltsam und spielerisch-informativ gestaltete Online-Assessments, Berufsorientierungsspiele oder auch Offline-Recrutainment-Events verbessern nachweislich das stimmige Zusammenfinden von Kandidat und Arbeitgeber und versprechen so nicht nur eine optimale Stellenbesetzung, sondern stärken auch das Profil der Arbeitgebermarke.Diese zweite Auflage unter dem Titel Recrutainment ist kein Herausgeber-, sondern ein vollständig neu entwickeltes Autorenwerk. Die wissenschaftliche Basis von Recrutainment wird umfassend herausgearbeitet sowie die Ergebnisse empirischer Forschung vorgestellt. Zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele zeigen verschiedene Facetten von Recrutainment und die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten in der Unternehmenspraxis. Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an HR-Praktikerinnen und -Praktiker als auch an Studierende, die die Grundlagen der psychologischen Personalauswahl und des Personalmarketings kennenlernen möchten. Der InhaltPersonalgewinnung, -marketing und -auswahlRecrutainment – die Gamification des RecruitingsOffline-Recrutainment – Vom Event vor Ort bis zum Blended-RecrutainmentSelf-Assessments – Online-Recrutainment in der SelbstauswahlOnline-Assessments – Online-Recrutainment in der Fremdauswahl
Recrutainment: Spielerische Ansätze in Personalmarketing und -auswahl
by Joachim Diercks and Kristof KupkaUm gute Mitarbeiter zu finden, reichen die üblichen Wege im Recruiting längst nicht mehr aus: Immer mehr Organisationen setzen auf Recrutainment, also den Einsatz spielerisch-simulativer Elemente in Berufsorientierung, Employer Branding, Personalmarketing und Recruiting.Self-Assessments, unterhaltsam und informativ gestaltete Online-Assessments, Berufsorientierungsspiele oder auch Offline-Recrutainment-Events verbessern nachweislich das stimmige Zusammenfinden von Kandidat und Arbeitgeber und versprechen so nicht nur eine optimale Stellenbesetzung, sondern stärken auch das Profil der Arbeitgebermarke. Das Buch liefert das theoretische Fundament für das Thema Recrutainment und erklärt, warum dessen Bedeutung in den letzten Jahren so stark zugenommen hat. Es werden die Auswirkungen von Recrutainment auf Organisationen und Bewerber unter Einbeziehung von aktuellen Studien beleuchtet. In ausgewählten Best Practice Beispielen stellen verschiedene Autoren dar, wie Recrutainment in der Unternehmenspraxis eingesetzt wird.
Recupera tu vida con una mente extendida: El método definitivo de efectividad personal
by José Miguel Bolivar Jordi FortunyUn método nuevo y disruptivo, un paso de gigante hacia la efectividad. Después de más de diez años ayudando a personas y organizaciones a ser más efectivas y lograr resultados, José Miguel Bolívar y Jordi Fortuny han creado OPTIMA3®, el método definitivo de efectividad personal. En este libro, los autores combinan todo su conocimiento y saber hacer con su experiencia como formadores certificados en GTD® de David Allen para diseñar una nueva metodología: un enfoque sencillo y flexible que elimina las complicaciones y se adapta a las necesidades y retos de los profesionales de hoy. Con OPTIMA3® aprenderás a: * vivir sin estrés y sin olvidos * recuperar la sensación de tener todos tus asuntos bajo control * priorizar qué hacer y qué no hacer en cada instante* aumentar tu productividad en un 40% Prepárate a descubrir una forma más sostenible de efectividad, basada en evidencias y centrada en el bienestar de las personas. Te cambiará la vida. Testimonios de lectores: «La explicación inicial de cómo trabajamos actualmente me resultó muy reveladora y me ayudó a no sentirme tan culpable de mi comportamiento a la hora de organizarme. Para mí, entender este punto ha sido clave para poder hacer borrón y cuenta nueva». «Poder llegar a vaciar la mente para ganar en efectividad, creatividad, tranquilidad y seguridad es extraordinario».«OPTIMA3® me ha permitido unificar todas mis listas anteriores y aprender un nuevo enfoque situacional, adaptando la lista a mí, no adaptándome yo a las listas». «Una herramienta capaz de aglutinar todas las actividades, tanto personales como laborales. En la parte laboral se agradece especialmente saber que es posible tener una bandeja de entrada limpia».«Este libro ayuda a entender por qué nos pasan las cosas y recordar la importancia de la efectividad, de la concentración, de la necesidad de poner foco, que a veces se nos olvida». «Me ha sido muy útil aprender a organizar todos los pensamientos "rumiantes" en listas. Completar listas es satisfactorio, pero nunca como hasta ahora me había permitido descargar por completo la mente».«Pensaba que aplicarlo en mi trabajo era imposible, pero me llevo una mente extendida y ganas de empezar a ponerlo en práctica desde ya». «Con el método OPTIMA3® ha cambiado mi percepción sobre cómo me organizaba hasta ahora, y espero sacar mayor partido de mi tiempo y mis decisiones a la hora de ejecutar actividades».
Recurring Issues in Auditing: Professional Debate 1875-1900 (Routledge Library Editions: Accounting)
by John Richard Edwards Roy A. ChandlerThis book gives a flavour of the issues that concerned auditing practitioners more than one hundred years ago and which retain a certain relevance to us today. The material is arranged chronologically and thereby emphasizes the interconnections between the issues as well as conveying the overall depth and flavour of the debate.
Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics
by Robert E. Lucas Nancy L. StokeyThis rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied. After presenting an overview of the recursive approach, the authors develop economic applications for deterministic dynamic programming and the stability theory of first-order difference equations. They then treat stochastic dynamic programming and the convergence theory of discrete-time Markov processes, illustrating each with additional economic applications. They also derive a strong law of large numbers for Markov processes. Finally, they present the two fundamental theorems of welfare economics and show how to apply the methods developed earlier to general equilibrium systems. The authors go on to apply their methods to many areas of economics. Models of firm and industry investment, household consumption behavior, long-run growth, capital accumulation, job search, job matching, inventory behavior, asset pricing, and money demand are among those they use to show how predictions can he made about individual and social behavior. Researchers and graduate students in economic theory will find this book essential.
Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies (The Gorman Lectures in Economics #6)
by Thomas J. Sargent Lars Peter HansenA guide to the economic modeling of household preferences, from two leaders in the fieldA common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present examples from microeconomics, macroeconomics, and asset pricing. The models are cast in terms of a representative consumer. While Hansen and Sargent demonstrate the analytical benefits acquired when an analysis with a representative consumer is possible, they also characterize the restrictiveness of assumptions under which a representative household justifies a purely aggregative analysis.Hansen and Sargent unite economic theory with a workable econometrics while going beyond and beneath demand and supply curves for dynamic economies. They construct and apply competitive equilibria for a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian dynamic economies with complete markets. Their book, based on the 2012 Gorman lectures, stresses heterogeneity, aggregation, and how a common structure unites what superficially appear to be diverse applications. An appendix describes MATLAB programs that apply to the book's calculations.
Recycle und Reuse: Chancen für die Schweizer Immobilienwirtschaft
by Christian Kraft Annabelle Schaaf Leonard FisterDieses Buch stellt praxisnahe Ansätze zur Förderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft im Bauwesen vor, um Abfall sowie Emissionen durch Recycling und Reuse zu reduzieren. Im Fokus stehen innovative Konzepte wie das Cradle-to-Cradle-Design und der Einsatz geeigneter Materialien. Eine Befragung von 13 Experten zeigt, dass die Kreislaufwirtschaft bisher eine untergeordnete Rolle spielt, jedoch ökologisch und ökonomisch vorteilhaft sein kann. Gezielte politische und wirtschaftliche Anpassungen, etwa ein klarer regulatorischer Rahmen, finanzielle Anreize und qualifiziertes Personal, werden empfohlen, um die grossen Potenziale der Kreislaufwirtschaft zu erschließen. Der Bau- und Immobiliensektor ist in der Schweiz für über 80 Prozent des Abfalls verantwortlich und bleibt trotz CO₂-Reduktionen der zweitgrößte Verursacher von Treibhausgasen. Energetische Sanierungen senken die Betriebsemissionen, jedoch bleibt der Anteil grauer Energie aus Erstellung, Transport und Entsorgung von Baumaterialien hoch.
Recycled Polyester: Manufacturing, Properties, Test Methods, and Identification (Textile Science and Clothing Technology)
by Subramanian Senthilkannan MuthuThis book provides an overview of recycled polyesters, which are an important sustainable raw material in textile production. It discusses the manufacturing methods and the unique properties of recycled polyesters manufactured using the different methods. It also highlights the various test methods and identification mechanisms for recycled polyesters, which are very essential for ensuring the traceability and conformity of usage of recycled polyester in the final product.
Recycling Institutions: How Waste Becomes an Urban Mine
by Brigt Dale Letícia Antunes Nogueira Håkan T. SandersenThis open access book investigates the phenomenon of recycling institutions in urban mining using social sciences lenses on the empirical context of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), landfills as a potential resource pool and the recycling of building materials in Norway. There is a dual meaning to the term ‘recycling institutions’, and this book has the ambition to explore both. The first refers to institutions that recycle, i.e., the institutional infrastructure that facilitates material recycling. From household attitudes and practices to the laws and regulations that govern waste management, there is an institutional apparatus that recycling relies upon, which gains increased importance as the sustainability agenda develops. The second meaning refers to the recycling of institutions, in the sense that the institutional setup itself is being repurposed and transformed. This more metaphorical meaning points to the way in which emerging societal ambitions (such as the circular economy) stretch and bend existing institutions by imposing new functions upon them. Institutions are conservative and backward-looking and tend to resist rapid and radical changes that are incompatible with the ideas and practices they are built on. So, whereas the first is about designing new institutions for circularity, the second is about modifying and “recycling” existing institutions to meet the challenges circularity may entail. The central premise is that relevant, supportive and well-functioning institutional environments are crucial in the transition to a greener society that encourages industries, businesses, households and citizens to act in more sustainable ways, and it identify both possibilities and obstacles in the emergence of institutions that support urban mining. This book integrates a range of disciplines in the social sciences to investigate the phenomenon of recycling institutions. By examining the case of urban mining in Norway, with a special focus on how existing structures developed for waste management can be repurposed to facilitate this new function, the book provides insight into a scenario where material sourcing from anthropogenic sources is dissociated from natural resource scarcity and is instead linked to political ambitions and an attempt to stay at the forefront of sustainability transitions.
Recycling Land: Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development
by Elizabeth Glass GeltmanOlder--and often economically depressed--industrial cities generally have a number of well located but abandoned industrial sites. Too frequently these sites are heavily polluted by the residue of toxic wastes dumped when old factories were still in use. These "brownfield" sites must be cleaned up under existing law before they can be redeveloped. And yet the question of who will bear the cost of this cleanup frequently stymies efforts to return these sites to productive use. A complicated net of federal, state and local regulations can involve several generations of owners in potential liability for the cleanup, frequently resulting only in extended litigation, not often in the cleanup of the site. In this book, Elizabeth Glass Geltman surveys the laws on both the federal and state level with regard to the cleanup of brownfield sites. The author makes valuable suggestions for reforming these laws that will help encourage land reuse and the accompanying redevelopment of the industrial base of many American cities both large and small. Elizabeth Glass Geltman is Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School and is the author of many books on environmental law, includingModern Environmental Law: Policy and Practice.
Recycling and Extended Producer Responsibility: The European Experience
by Rui Cunha Marques Nuno Ferreira CruzAn overriding value of European legislation on waste management is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle. For example, all economic operators placing packaging onto the EU market are responsible for its proper management and recovery. However, in general, the collection and treatment of urban waste is the responsibility of local authorities. It has therefore been necessary to establish a system of financial compensations between producers and waste management operators. Analysing the legal and institutional schemes of several member states and accounting for all the costs and benefits to their local authorities due to selective collection and sorting, this book provides an accurate illustration of how the EPR principle has be translated into practice. Firstly the authors examine whether the industry is paying for the net financial cost of 'preparation for recycling' activities or if the extra-costs of recycling are being recovered via the sale of sorted materials, by the consumer through higher prices or by citizens in general through higher taxes. Secondly, by monetizing the net environmental benefits attained with the recycling system, the book discusses the success and Value-for-Money (VfM) of the EU’s recycling policy. In other words: what is the economic rate of return of the enhanced environmental protection achieved due to the fulfilment of recovery and recycling targets?
Recycling and Incineration: Evaluating The Choices
by John Ruston Richard Denison Environmental Defense FundRecycling and Incineration presents information on the technology, economics, environmental concerns, and legal intricacies behind recycling and incineration programs.
Recycling, a Challenge for the Circular Economy (ISTE Consignment)
by Michel CathelineauReducing consumption is now an absolute necessity for the future of our environment. The circular economy is designed to reduce resource wastage and waste production, but also enables waste recovery, leading to the creation of secondary resources. All materials, regardless of how they have been processed, can be reused. Recycling, a Challenge for the Circular Economy begins its analysis by raising awareness of the role of each of us in reducing the volume of individual waste. The book then outlines the strategies and challenges involved in recycling a wide range of materials, from minimally processed (wood, glass, building materials or polluted soil) to highly processed (electrical and electronic waste, batteries, magnets or plastics). Aspects of resource availability are also discussed, as well as ways of addressing the dynamic cycle of materials in the context of ever-increasing demand.