| Article ID: | iaor19992824 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 19 |
| End Page Number: | 34 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
| Journal: | IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry |
| Authors: | Preater J. |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
We introduce a sequential recruitment problem in which the employee pool needs continual replenishment due to random depletions of personnel. We determine an optimal selection policy and discuss its monotonicity and asymptotic properties.