Exam 6: Recruiting and Labor Markets

Patricia, an outstanding performer, was placed at Oliver & Co. by a temporary service firm for two months. Patricia's manager approaches Oliver & Co.'s HR Director with the request that she wants her as a regular employee. Given this scenario, which of the following statements is true?

Define the term employment brand.

The term "applicant population" refers to all individuals looking for a job in a particular geographic area.

The percentage hired from a given group of candidates is termed_____.

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

Mention the factors that need to be considered when dealing with job posting systems.

Paul is the director of recruitment at Times Clockworks. After running a thorough study of their employees' backgrounds, Paul finds that Times Clockworks has disparate impact in the proportion of Hispanic employees compared to the proportion of Hispanics in its labor market. Which of the following steps should Paul take to solve the problem most efficiently?

Describe some of the flexible staffing alternatives available to employers.What are the main advantages and disadvantages?

Acceptance rate measures not just recruiting but selection issues as well.

What are the advantages and limitations of focusing on internal recruiting sources to fill open positions?

Which of the following is a feature of job posting and bidding?

How has the use of the Internet affected recruiting?

A disadvantage of Internet recruiting is that it generates large numbers of passive job seekers who, typically, tend to be of low-quality.

Why is it important to formally evaluate and measure recruiting? What are some methods that can be used to evaluate recruiting?

Recruiters have completely stopped using newspaper ads as a tool for external recruitment because job seekers use the Internet almost exclusively even in smaller cities and towns.

Which of the following is a feature of Internet recruiting?

Recruiting should be viewed as a type of organizational marketing and should be consistent with an organization's overall presentation of its image.

A special labor market is suppliers and contractors for U.S. military forces.

Which of the following is an example of external sources of recruitment?

What can a recruiter learn from calculating the acceptance rate?