Exam 5: Expanding the Talent Pool: Recruitment and Careers

When unemployment levels are low, employers may need to use more sources of recruitment.

What is the key reason why the quality of employee-referred applicants tends to be high?

Which of the following groups is most likely to respond to advertisements placed through social media?

Learning in Development (LID) is a high-tech firm that specializes in applications for hand-held devices. It is looking for a cheap, fast, and effective way of recruiting new candidates. Which strategy would best suit LID?

Hamid is a professional engineer. He is not permanently in a management role, but is paid at management rate, and can choose to take up management roles without sacrificing his engineering role. How would you describe his career path?

What type of individual is most associated with a boundaryless career?

Yield ratios should be calculated for each recruiting source.

Employee referrals are associated with high employee turnover rates.

Scenario 5.2 Star Bright Consulting, a Canadian private employment agency specializing in IT staffing, has been successfully providing qualified IT employees to various firms in the Greater Toronto Area. Recently, the agency has been experiencing problems with its selection process. Primarily, the agency's clients are not happy with the length of time it takes to fill positions that become available. Even though Star Bright has been successful over the years, it is not fully leveraging technology to aid in its recruitment and selection efforts. -Refer to Scenario 5.2. Which of the following tools can Star Bright use to promote the IT careers it offers?

What is the first stage in the career stage model?

Some career development paths provide new assignments that increase skill areas and assignments in different functional areas.

Skill inventories are an important tool for succession planning.

Scenario 5.1 Beloitte Industries Inc. (BI Inc.) has been one of Canada's leading financial advisory firms for over 50 years. Staffed by roughly 4000 employees in most major cities across the country, BI Inc. prides itself on hiring recent graduates from renowned business schools and offering them competitive salaries, excellent benefits and perks, and limitless training and development opportunities. Employees also have the opportunity to work from home a couple days a week. Over the years, the company realized that while it has no problems recruiting top candidates to the firm, it is having a harder time retaining them. Exit surveys reveal that while employees appreciate all the perks, benefits, and top salaries that attracted them to the organization, they are not able to enjoy them due to six-day workweeks and 14-hour days, leaving very little time for friends and family. They did not know of these work situations when they were hired. -Refer to Scenario 5.1. Adopting a realistic job preview at BI Inc. can lead to which of the following?

Often, applicants will respond to an advertisement even if they don't meet the job requirements.

What can organizations do to retain top talent?

Some organizations that want to focus on their core functions, including small businesses that lack time or HR personnel, sometimes use outside firms for their recruiting functions. What is this process called?

Mentoring functions can be divided into two broad categories: (1) technical development and (2) career planning.

In order to identify qualified candidates for the job of "tennis teaching professional," Canmay Tennis Clubs have job candidates face a series of situations while they are observed, such as dealing with a series of emails from an unhappy club client in a difficult situation, role-playing a lesson, and a behavioural interview. Which method of identifying qualified candidates is Canmay using?

Which of the following is a potential limitation when an organization practises promotion from within?

A dual career path is for couples who are both working professionals in the same field.