Chapter 5

Recruiting is necessary to

Develop in applicant pool

Which of the following is the primary disadvantage for employers who use private employment agencies to fill positions?

Applicant screening may not be thorough

What is the primary purpose of an applicant tracking system?

Assisting employers in attracting, screening, and managing applicants

What is the first step in the recruitment and selection process?

Deciding what positions to fill

Which of the following is typically responsible for paying the fees charged by a private employment agency when an applicant is placed in a job?

Employers

___are special employment agencies retained by employers to seek out top management talent for their clients.

Executive recruiters

An employer will most likely us a private employment agency in order to

Fill a specific job opening quickly

When constructing a job advertisement, all of the following are aspects of the AIDA guide EXCEPT

Implying long-term benefits

Which of the following is NOT a tool used by firms to recruit outside candidates?

Intranet job postings

Which of the following is a recommended method for HR departments to protect employee data?

Performing random background checks on employees with HR database access

___is the process of deciding what positions the firm will have to fill and how to fill them.

Personnel planning

Which of the following is the primary disadvantage of using internal sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a firm?

Potential to lose employees who aren't promoted

Which of the following contains data regarding employee's education, career development, and special skills and is used by managers when selecting inside candidates for promotion?

Qualification inventories

Which of the following terms refers to the background investigations, tests, and physical exams that firms use to identify viable candidates for a job?

Selection tools

A firm's____should guide employment planning and determine the types of skills and competencies the firm needs.

Strategic Plan

The ongoing process of systematically identifying, assessing, and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance is known as

Succession Planning

Which of the following terms refers to studying a firm's past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?

Trend analysis

According to most employment laws, employees of temporary staffing firms that are working in an employer's workplace are considered workers of both the temporary agency and the employer. True or False

True

Many firms use temporary hiring as a way to give prospective employees a trial run before hiring them as full-time workers. True or False

True

All of the following are characteristics of a job posting EXCEPT

indicating the preferred number of applicants