Exam 6: Recruiting and Labor Markets

Angela is a self-employed graphic artist. She is usually hired by companies for special projects that lasts from a week to six months. Angela can be best described as a(n):

Define the term employment brand.

Exclusive use of the Internet for recruiting can reduce the diversity of an employer's applicant population because:

Contingency firms charge a client a set fee whether or not the contracted search is successful.

Which of the following is a defining characteristic of regular staffing?

Rerecruiting former employees is a way of avoiding "inbreeding" while still using an internal recruiting source.

An automated job posting system that automatically contacts internal candidates by company e-mail is an effective method for keeping good employees from looking outside the company for advancement.

When compared to internal recruitment, an advantage of external recruiting is that:

Which of the following is a feature of school and college recruiting?

What can a recruiter learn from calculating the acceptance rate?

There are instances of companies that begin to attract students with capabilities while those students are in high school by encouraging them to participate in engineering internships during summers.

What are the actions that a firm should take in order to recruit a diverse workforce?

Define the term "rerecruiting." Explain how a firm can utilize this form of recruitment.

In the building trade, unions can best benefit employers by providing:

General job fairs are primarily preferred by employers who are involved in continuous efforts to recruit.

Stacy, the HR manager of a bank, restricts her recruiting efforts for the post of loan officer to placing advertisements on the Web site of the American Banking Association. This will allow Stacy to determine the _____ for the job of loan officer.

Bryan is the recruiting specialist for an online retailing company in Missouri. He used all types of recruiting techniques available to him to fill nineteen job openings. Using these techniques, exactly nineteen applicants with the minimum qualifications were found and al the candidates accepted the job offer. Which of the following is true about this scenario?

Which of the following is the best way in which recruiters can easily and accurately track responses to advertisements in various media?

The success base rate is a long-term measure of whether the HR function has provided productive, long-term employees for an organization.

Internet recruiting generates high numbers of applicants and increases work for HR staff far beyond traditional recruiting methods.