Recruitment Test 2

An HR Manager asked every candidate during an interview to describe a situation in the past in which they had to display their leaderShip abilities even though they were not a formal leader, discuss what they did, and describe the result. This is an example of which external assessment method?

BEHAVORIAL INTERVIEW

Which assessment method would be the best choice to identify candidates who are more likely to pose a security risk to the company?

Background check

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS are more reliable and substantially better than__________ at predicting job performance

Unstructured interviews

Which of the following would result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?

Work in the firm is done in teams

A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on

CURRENT JOB PERFORMANCE AND FUTURE POTENTIAL

A recruiter's perception of the recruiter's knowledge has little impact on how attractive a job is....

FALSE

Cognitive ability tests are one of the least valid selection methods:

FALSE

Peer ratings tend to do a poor job predicting promotion criteria:

FALSE

SUCCESSION management means identifying specific back up candidates for specific senior management positions:

FALSE

The advantages of using self assessment is that people are often good judges of their own talents:

FALSE

SUCCESSION Management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity:

FALSE- CAN be used to enhance org diversity

When a company hired Marcus who turned out to be a poor performer, which assessment outcome occurred?

False positive

Online applications give candidates real time status information and

Flexibility to complete at their own convenience

Filling lower- level positions from the local labor market and higher level positions from the regional or national labor market is an example of--

Geographic targeting

Having a low selection ratio means:

HIRING ONLY A FEW APPLICANTS

Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding semi passive and passive job seekers?

Internet data mining

**Which of the following statements is true of a recruitment guide?

It details which staff members are responsible for recruiting

Which of the following is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?

It increases diversity of talent available

Which of the following is true of person- organization fit?

It is positively related to job Satisfaction

The use of social media for recruiting and sourcing will continue to increase due to...

It's targeted search capability

The fit between a person's abilities and the demands of the job and the fit between a person's desires and motivations and the attributes and rewards of a job is:

A person-job fit

*When should medical tests be administered?

After a job offer has been extended...

A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it

Assesses their strengths and weaknesses

Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by:

Assisting "blocked" employees to improve their performance

Which of the following do corporate executives use to form an image of a specific organization?

Economic performance indicators

Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume OTHER JOBS AND ROLES in the firm?

Employee Development

Effective staffing enhances the degree to which a (n) :

Employee meets a job's requirement

**Evaluative assessment methods are used to narrow down a pool of job candidates to a smaller group of candidates:

FALSE

A Clinical assessment puts job candidates through a series of simulations and exercises that reflect the typical challenges of the job:

FALSE

A persistent problem that prevents most firms from hiring people with disabilities is the lack of affordable technologies that could enable firms to accommodate them at a low cost

FALSE

Which of the following is a type of Cognitive ability test?

Mathematical Reasoning

Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with accessing top talent?

OFFSHORING (Think opposite need to find top talent, so OFFshore)

The BIGGEST Problem with personality tests is based on.....

Privacy ISSUES

When an applicant believes that an assessment method is unfair bc it does not give him/her an opportunity to demonstrate job relevant skills_________.

Procedural fairness is low.

SOURCING TALENT that is unethical is....

RAIDING

Clinical Assessments

Rely on trained psychologists to subjectively analyze a candidate's attributes, values, and styles in the context of a particular job

*The higher the fidelity of a job simulation test, the higher is the

SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE REAL JOB AND THE TEST

When a union organizer tries to get a job with a company for the purpose of unionizing the company's workforce, this is known as_________.

Salting

Retainer firms are....

Search firms who charge employers a FIXED FEE in advance of placement..

Which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multi source assessment?

Subordinates

The ongoing process of systematically identifying, assessing and developing org leadership to enhance performance is

Succession Management

Effectively using technology can improve applicant and promote positive spillover effects

TRUE

REALISTIC JOB PREVIEWS can help counter inaccurate employer images:

TRUE

If an individual's goals, values, and work style clashes with the goals, values, and work style of his or her coworkers, which of the following is true?

The individual has low person- group fit

What is the disadvantage of getting line managers to recruit for a firm?

They have to take time out from their actual jobs

Sabbaticals:

are used to reenergize employees and give them the opportunity to develop skills and pursue other interests via workshops, formal classes, or travel