Ch.6 Recruiting High-Quality Talent
Miles has been asked to compare the quality of three recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms that want to provide recruitment processing functions for Bluesy Music Foundation. Which of the following measures is most likely to help Miles judge the quality of the firms' services?
The satisfaction of the applicants
In the context of e-video and recruiting, which of the following is true of video interviews?
They can save time and money for candidates
What is the purpose of mining résumés?
To find the best-fitting applications
How is gamification used to recruit potential employees?
To interest potential candidates
Why do companies stay in touch with former employees by creating alumni networks?
To rerecruit former employees as appropriate openings arise
Which of the following sources is most likely to assist in recruiting specialized professionals?
Trade association publications
Which of the following social networking websites best enables recruiters to send brief messages of 280 characters to both active and passive job candidates and then follow up with longer e-mails to facilitate recruiting?
Identify an internal recruitment method.
Employee-focused recruiting
Which of the following is a key recruiting tactic to let good performers know that they would be welcomed back in the future?
Exit interviews
In the context of strategic recruiting decisions, recruiters:
Focus on "culture fit" when determining who to hire
Which of the following questions can Rosa ask to evaluate recruiting efforts of her company's HR department?
How much time does it take to fill openings
In the context of general recruiting process metrics, acceptance rate is defined as:
The percentage of the number of applicants hired to the total number of applicants offered jobs
Which of the following statements is true of recruiting?
The recruiting process connects companies to sources of potential employees
Which of the following is NOT a type of flexible worker?
A core worker
Which of the following is an internal recruiting source?
An employee referral
Gwen's company has an opening for a marketing manager. Gwen believes that the company should hire a new employee rather than promoting one of the existing marketing representatives. Which of the following advantages of an external hire should she point out to convince the marketing director?
An external hire is likely to bring new insights and expertise.
The _____ is a subset of the labor force population that is available for selection if a particular recruiting approach is used.
Applicant population
How can a company make the recruiting process more effective?
By developing an applicant tracking system
Which of the following is a significant source of entry-level professional and technical employees?
College and university students
Identify the type of websites that would enable Jaxon to establish a profile and upload his résumé, which would be made available to all employers that use the website.
Internet job boards
Which of the following is true of a talent database?
It can help identify internal opportunities for individuals
Which of the following is a disadvantage of using technology in recruiting?
It increases work for HR staff members.
Which of the following is a potential disadvantage of Internet recruiting?
Loss of personal privacy
Midsized and larger employers are most likely to provide _____ to incentivize employee referral programs.
Monetary bonus
Which of the following activities makes recruiting more effective?
Providing realistic job previews
Which of the following is true of using technology in recruiting?
Technology-based recruiting generates a large pool of applicants
Vince is an HR Manager of a small moving and storage company in the small town of Delwich. A large distribution center for an online retail company that hires many employees plans to move into Delwich. Both companies hire workers that perform physical labor—moving and packing products or furniture for shipping and storage. How is this change most likely to affect Vince's company?
Vince's company will have fewer applicants
Using recruitment process outsourcing (RPOs):
helps organizations capitalize on employee referrals.