MGMY 383 Ch 6
All of the following are advantages of employee databases EXCEPT
All of the following are advantages of employee databases EXCEPT
As director of HR you are reviewing the statistics for this year's college recruiting. At one state university, of 50 college seniors interviewed you made job offers to 10 students. At a large private university, of 20 students interviewed, you made job offers to 2 students. Based just on this information, which of the following statements is FALSE?
Cost per hire is greater for the state university than for the private university.
Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding cost per hire?
Cost per hire should include only direct costs of recruiting.
Cliff, the HR manager for a small firm, has hired a web designer to add a jobs section to the firm's existing website. Cliff should make sure all the following areas are covered:
Demographic data such as race, age and gender should be collected on the on-line application form.
The use of temporary workers would be most appropriate in which of the following situations?
A tax preparation company handles mostly individuals and has few business clients.
All of the following are examples of internal sources of applicants EXCEPT
A veterinarian expanding her practice returns to her alma mater to interview new veterinary school graduates.
How can recruiters easily and accurately track responses to advertisements in various media?
Code ads in different media by using different contact names.
Hector Printers & Publishers, Inc., has a reputation as a troubled firm in a declining industry. As the new director of HR, you explain to the CEO that the company's poor image is probably resulting in all of the following EXCEPT
Hector's total costs of recruiting and selection are lower than at its competitors.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
If a recruiter checks an applicant's Facebook account, learns that the applicant is Jewish, and then rejects the applicant, the company may be exposed to an EEO discrimination complaint.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
If disparate impact exists between the employer's workforce and the relevant labor markets, then the employer is required by law to expand its external recruiting efforts.
Which of the following statements about recruiting friends and family of current employees is TRUE?
If the current workforce is not diverse, EEO problems may result.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about job boards?
Job boards enable job seekers to submit résumés to many employers simultaneously.
Which of the following statements regarding job posting and bidding is FALSE?
Job posting reduces the threat of organizational "in breeding" because the posting crosses divisional and departmental boundaries in the search for new blood.
Sally, a recruiter for Boswell-Swift, Inc., in Oregon, made an offer to Kurt, a high-potential graduating college senior in Florida. Sally was positive that Kurt was excited about the job offer, but two days after the offer he rejected the offer. In a follow-up phone call, Sally learned that Kurt had learned about a nasty internal political situation at Boswell-Swift, and he did not want to work in such a tense atmosphere. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
Kurt probably found out about this situation on a social networking site.
____ are the external supply pool from which organizations attract prospective employees.
Labor markets
Quincy had been a high-performing benefits specialist for Mentation Enterprises, Inc. for four years. Then Quincy took a job with a benefits consulting firm at a considerable increase in pay. Now, after two years, Quincy would like to return to Mentation Enterprises. Quincy says that he did not like the 24/7 work schedule of the consulting firm, and that he does not mind the lower salary at Mentation because he will be able to "have a life" in his old job. Quincy will have to sign a co
Quincy is a viable candidate because of his previous high performance record.
There are two kinds of executive search firms. ____ firms charge a fee regardless of the success of the search.
Retainer
eannette is a tax specialist in for the airline industry at Blue Moon Executive Airlines. Relatively few people in the U.S. have her particular skills. Jeannette has received an email from a headhunter advising her that the headhunter kno
The headhunter's client is taking a low-cost approach to filling the tax specialist position.
Which of the following is an ADVANTAGE of external recruiting?
The new hire is not politically networked into the organization.
Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding recruiting process outsourcing (RPO)?
The trade-off for cost-savings by using RPO is a reduction in overall quality of the applicant pool generated.
One of the advantages for employees of employee leasing companies is that they
They may receive better benefits than they would otherwise get in many small businesses
Which of the following statements about the global labor market is FALSE?
U.S. employers find China a good location for outsourcing because of few governmental regulations on recruiting and hiring by foreign firms.
Which of the following statements regarding school and college recruiting is TRUE?
Vocational colleges and technical schools often have co-operative programs with employers that funnel quality students into regular jobs.
Sound HR practices would not automatically exclude the following non-traditional categories of potential applicants EXCEPT
a college-educated Danish woman without an H1 visa.
The labor market in the region is fairly tight. As recruiting director for Clarendon County Medical Center, you need a number of patient aides, practical nurses, and technicians, as well as medical receptionists and insurance clerks. The upcoming job fair that will be most useful for meeting your recruiting goals will be
a job fair for a consortium of regional vocational and technical schools with medical programs.
Clement is the recruiting specialist for an online retailing company in a mid-sized Missouri town. He has used every type of recruiting technique available to him to fill nineteen job openings. After all his efforts have been exhausted, exactly nineteen applicants with the minimum qualifications have been found. In this case,
a selection process is not necessary.
If an organization wants to know how competitive it is with other firms for top job candidates, it would learn the most from analysis of
acceptance ratios.
Measures of quality of applicants generated by recruiting efforts include all of the following EXCEPT
achieving the required yield ratios.
The ____ pool consists of all persons who are actually evaluated for selection
applicant
As director of recruiting for a large bank, Stacy has decided to restrict her recruiting efforts for loan officers to placing advertisements on the web site of the American Banking Association. This will determine the ____ for the job of loan officer.
applicant population
Priam Designs, Inc., is recruiting for designers using LinkedIn. The ____________ is the group of designers that is available for selection using this recruiting approach.
applicant population
In the building trades, unions can benefit employers by providing
apprenticeship programs.
When considering recent college graduates, a moderately-high GPA is used by recruiters
as an initial screening tool.
Mimosa Clockworks has found that it has disparate impact in the proportion of Hispanic employees compared to the proportion of Hispanics in its labor market. The director of recruiting for Mimosa Clockworks should
begin advertising job openings on the local Spanish language radio station.
A nursing home is opening in a mid-sized Northwestern city. It would be most logical for the organization to recruit for patient aides in the ____ labor market. The job pays just above minimum wage.
city
The major saving in time generated by Internet recruiting compared with traditional recruiting is in
communication between the applicants and the employer.
In some industries, such as ____, unions have traditionally supplied workers to employers.
construction
Peter Whimsey and Associates uses a private employment agency to locate engineering staff. Whimsey pays a set fee to the employment agency when hires are made from candidates it provides. Whimsey is using a
contingency firm.
Exclusive use of the Internet for recruiting may reduce the diversity of an employer's applicant population because
economically-disadvantaged individuals have limited Internet access.
Evaluating the success of an HR department's own recruiting efforts is important for all the following reasons EXCEPT
evaluation will show whether the firm should make more use of training and development versus external recruiting of specialists.
Collette is the director of HR for a large tax-preparation firm. The firm needs to quickly hire large numbers of tax preparers for tax season. Collette is short-staffed, so she plans to outsource much of the recruiting process without excessively limiting her final hiring decisions. Collette would find all of the following processes appropriate to outsource to a an employment agency EXCEPT
face-to-face interviews with finalists.
The HR Best Practices case regarding hiring of veterinarians at USDA focuses on how the agency was able to increase its recruiting success. All of the following were successful tactics used by the USDA in improving its recruiting EXCEPT
giving recruiters a bonus per hire.
A "passive" job seeker is one who
has a good job and is not actively looking to change
Sarah is the Executive Vice President of HR for a large research hospital. The hospital must replace its CEO who was killed in a plane crash, along with his designated successor. Sarah will likely turn to __________________ to help her recruit applicants for this position.
headhunters
A major economic factor in favor of an organization's deciding NOT to outsource U.S. jobs overseas is the
high levels of American productivity
Kathleen is the Director of HR for a resort hotel that is opening on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in an area that already contains a number of hotels and casinos. In addition, Hurricane Katrina reconstruction has lured many potential employees to high-paying construction jobs. Consequently, the labor market for hotel employees of all kinds is very tight. The owner of the resort hotel has exhausted almost all of her capital and credit in building the hotel, and has told Kathleen that labor costs will be a major factor in the company's success or failure. Kathleen is not worried about filling the lower-skilled hotel jobs such as maids, housekeeping staff and restaurant workers because she plans to
hire a staffing firm that provides rotating crews of Haitian workers on temporary work visas.
Data on job performance, absenteeism, cost of training and turnover of employees compared with their recruiting source helps organizations
identify which recruiting sources could be dropped.
An effective job posting system has all the following characteristics EXCEPT
in order to maximize the applicant population, jobs should be posted internally and advertised externally simultaneously.
Angela is a self-employed graphic artist. Typically she is hired by companies for special projects that may last anywhere from a week to six months. Angela is a/an
independent contractor.
Hector Graphics is conducting a vigorous recruiting campaign aimed at hiring a 12 new employees, usually within two months. Hector Graphics is engaging in __________ recruiting.
intensive
All of the following are drawbacks of promoting from within EXCEPT
internal recruiting costs tend to be higher than external recruiting costs because of the extensive databases and employee skills inventories required..
An "employment game" would be most useful for a job tha
involves a certain amount of adventure or drama.
Recommendations for successful recruiting include all the following processes EXCEPT
keeping the recruiting function in-house to better mesh recruiting with organizational strategy
The ____ includes all individuals available for selection, if all possible recruitment strategies are used
labor force population
Which of the following statements about using the Internet for recruiting is FALSE? Internet recruiting
makes EEO record-keeping more simple.
Ariel Aeronautics, Inc., wishes to motivate its current employees to stay with the company and to develop and advance within it. All of the following actions will contribute to Ariel Aeronautics' goal EXCEPT
making extensive use of professional job boards on the Internet
As the new director of HR for Mimosa Enterprises, you are examining the recruiting statistics for the organization. You find that the success base rate for chemical engineers is very low. This means that
most of the engineers hired by Mimosa turn out to be poor performers.
Because of its cutting-edge technical processes, the CEO of Pro-X Components, Inc., has told the Miguel, the HR director, that Miguel must attract "the cream of the crop" for all scientific job openings in the company. Miguel needs to do all of the following to attract the best new university graduates and top young scientists , EXCEPT
offer the top people on the market independent contractor positions.
Begley Medical Center is recruiting for an oncology nurse practitioner. It would be most effective for Begley Medical Center to advertise
on the website of the oncology nurse practitioner professional organization.
The best criterion of the effectiveness of an advertisement for applicants is
performance level of applicants generated by the ad who were hired.
If an employer plans to tap nontraditional workers, it should be prepared to do all of the following EXCEPT
pre-adapt its work stations for all major disabilities.
A/an ____ takes over the staff of a small business and writes the paychecks, pays the taxes, prepares and implements HR policies, and keeps all the required records for a fee
professional employer organization
Hector Graphics, Inc., is laying off a number of its skilled designers because of the loss of some major clients. Priam Designs, Inc., is Hector Graphics' major competitor. Priam Designs landed a couple of Hector Graphics' old clients, and Priam Designs expects to gain more clients in the next 12 months. As the HR director of Priam Designs, Inc., you approach the CEO to ___________________. You believe that this will maintain morale at Priam Designs while increasing its numbers of designers.
propose that new designer positions should be created at Priam Designs for designers so that you can hire the best designers Hector Graphics is laying off.
The vice president of HR for a large magazine publisher is creating an internship program for students in journalism and communication university degree programs. All of the following should be included in the internship program EXCEPT
providing interns full employee benefits during their internship.
Job fairs are primarily useful for
rapid hiring of large numbers of people.
The process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organizational jobs is called
recruiting
Sphere Specialties, Inc., has been experiencing a high level of internal movement of employees. Individuals will be hired in entry level jobs, but within six months, most will have transferred or have been promoted to other positions. This job-changing activity is also high in the middle ranges of the organization. Consequently, there is quite a bit of disruption and down-time as job-changers learn their new duties. In order to retain the benefi
requiring at least one year in the current job before employees can apply for a new internal job.
The director of recruiting at Naranja Technologies Inc. is considering whether to expand recruiting efforts to Merriweather State University (MSU). The recruiting director will make his decision based on all of the following factors EXCEPT
salary expectations of MSU graduates.
In designing a "careers" section on an organization's Web site, all of the following should be included EXCEPT
screening pre-tests that block unqualified applicants from continuing the application process.
The ____ equals the number of persons hired divided by the number of applicants.
selection rate
The electrical utility company serving a large Southwestern city is moving from using only traditional sources of electricity to promoting the use of solar and wind power. It is one of the first utilities in the country to move heavily to solar and wind-generated electricity. These are new technologies for the company and the legal regulations applied by the city are in flux as well. As the HR director for the utility company, you
should plan to do more extensive external recruiting for technical and engineering positions.
Employers recruiting for workers with specific skills are turning to ____________ to fill these needs.
social networking sites
Which of the following metrics is a quality measure?
success base rate
Figuring average time from contact to hire allows the firm to
target the most time-efficient recruiting sources.
The requirements for specific government-issued licenses or professional certifications define ________ labor markets.
technical
During the rebuilding efforts after a catastrophic earthquake along the New Madrid fault, qualified construction workers are in very short supply in the region from St. Louis to Memphis. As a result, the HR director of a large commercial construction company is proposing to the CEO that he consider hiring non-violent ex-felons who have served their sentences in prison who can be quickly trained to do basic construction jobs. The CEO is rather alarmed at this suggestion. The HR director's best argument is that although ex-felons are a non-traditional labor source,
the CEO can either hire felons or lose out on potentially lucrative construction contracts.
Pro-X Components, Inc., operates a factory in a small, depressed Rust Belt town in the Upper Midwest. The workforce is high quality because of the strong local work ethic and the good quality public education system. But, it has been difficult for Pro-X Components to fill all its operational job openings locally, and it is not easy to persuade people from outside the area to relocate to this isolated, struggling town. Which of the following situations would most likely IMPROVE Pro-X Components' geographic labor market quickly?
the closing of a medium-sized plant in the same industry in a town 10 miles away.
Which of the following would be the LEAST important topic of training for a recruiter who will be conducting interviews on a university campus?
the company's job posting software
The size of the applicant pool is affected by all the following factors EXCEPT
the efficiency of the recruiting staff
If an employer lists the designation EEO/M-F/AA/ADA in its employment advertisements it indicates
the employer has a policy of complying with equal employment regulations.
All of the following are legal concerns about Internet recruiting EXCEPT
the higher level of applicant fraud and exaggeration of qualifications compared with traditional recruiting methods.
Decisions that affect the applicant population include all of the following EXCEPT
the required yield ratio from recruiting efforts.
Ivan is an outstanding performer who was provided to the firm by a temporary service firm two months ago. Ivan's manager would like to hire Ivan as a regular employee and she has come to you, the HR director, to make this request. You realize that
the temporary agency contract requires the company to pay a placement fee if Ivan is hired as a regular employee
Important information that the company can learn from rejected applicants includes all of the following EXCEPT
the trade-off of speed of hire versus applicant quality.
If a recruiter needs to find applicants who have a scarce, highly-specialized skill, it would be most efficient to use
the web site for that particular professional or occupational association.
All of the following are examples of flexible staffing EXCEPT
using regular part-time employees.
What can a recruiter learn from calculating the acceptance rate?
whether recruiters can "close the deal" with top candidates
A ____ is a comparison of the number of applicants at one stage of the recruiting process to the number at the next stage
yield ratio