Exam 11: Choosing and Hiring Candidates

At Spyglass Inc. ,a private eye firm,new hires are chosen with utmost care.The reputation of the company is to provide clients with one hundred percent correct information on any matter that they want investigated.Which of the following methods should it use to hire new employee?

Which of the following,if true,would result in a new hire to a company getting paid less than existing employees?

What is an employment contract? Describe three things an employment contract must contain to be legally binding.

List and describe two ways of combining candidates' scores on multiple assessments and discuss when each is most appropriate to use.

Pursuing diverse candidates should begin in the assessment stage of the hiring process.

Backing out of an employment contract after the job offer is accepted is called ________.

Deferring a new hire's start date can be an alternative to ________.

When a finalist does not get a job offer,they are likely to perceive ________.

A nonsolicitation agreement is a type of ________.

Allowing a candidate's high score on an interview to make up for a low score on a personality test is an example of the ________.

A non-solicitation agreement prevents a firm's former employees from actively soliciting the firm's customers on behalf of the employees' new employer.

Which of the following is true of a competitive job offer?

Hiring managers make the final hiring decisions.

The compensatory approach runs the risk of increased legal troubles due to different weightings provided by different experts.

Using experts to decide how to weight candidates' scores on different assessments is called unit weighting.

The best time to pursue workforce diversity is during ________.

When different assessments are made using different scales,before they can be combined the raw scores must be ________.

It is sometimes permissible to hire a nonqualified minority candidate over a qualified nonminority candidate.

The way a firm negotiates a job offer with a candidate influences the candidate's perceptions of ________.

A minimum assessment score that must be met or exceeded to advance to the next assessment phase or to be eligible to receive a job offer is a ________.