Exam 5: Recruitment of Applicants

Those individuals employed by another firm, who are not actively seeking a job but often respond positively to being approached for new employment are known as:

An organization should start its recruitment efforts by specifying its objectives.

Although research has shown that realistic job previews reduce subsequent employee turnover, the size of the reduction is usually fairly small.

Both applicants and organizations have incentives to present their best qualities to attract one another.

Recruiters are usually seen as more trustworthy and credible than members of the intended work group.

The value of selection to an organization decreases as the pool of qualified applicants grows.

Recruiters have little effect upon recruits' actual decisions about whether to accept a job or not.

One means organizations can use to manage image is by tailoring their recruitment strategies and methods to communicate the kind of brand or image they wish to portray to applicants.

The last part of recruiting is to determine the cost of recruiting.

If the recruitment program produces only a small number of applicants relative to the number of available positions, then rather than selection, the situation approaches what is called:

Firms can engage in both internal and external recruitment.

Realistic job previews have a slightly negative relationship to job satisfaction and turnover.

When the quality of information upon which applicants base their decisions is accurate, dysfunctional behaviors are more likely to result.

Which of the following consists of the largest number of persons in the Barber and Breaugh model of the recruitment process?

Research suggests that using words such as "innovative" and "progressive" to describe a job should be used when trying to attract:

Applicants use impression management tactics to influence the perceptions of organizations and organizations use depression management to present jobs as realistically as possible.

All of the following are purposes of recruiting EXCEPT:

Organizations using a recruiting Web site should avoid using employee testimonials on the Web site itself.

Applicants are given the negative aspects of the job as well as the positive with:

The plan for choosing which recruitment activities the organization will use, when and how these activities will be done, whom to use as recruiters, and what theme or message to convey is known as the: