Chapter 14
Recruitment
Select the choice which best completes the statement, or answers the question, by clicking on the corresponding letter.
____ is the process of attempting to locate and encourage potential applicants to apply for existing or anticipated job openings.
- Recruitment
- Selection
- Compensation
- Placement
Which of the following statements about recruitment activities are true?
- Effective recruitment attracts individuals to the organization.
- Recruiting has little effect on employee retention.
- Recruiting involves sorting and ranking job applicants.
- Recruitment and selection are interchangeable terms.
In many cases, hiring someone from outside the organization:
- is seen as essential for revitalization.
- increases morale among executives.
- is the only way to gain information about a rival's competitive advantage.
- limits your labour market.
Outside recruitment sources include all of the following except:
- trade unions.
- colleges and universities.
- employees recalled from a layoff.
- walk-in job applicants.
There is a correlation between the recruitment success of the organization and:
- formal vs. informal recruitment sources.
- the accuracy and completeness of advertisements.
- diversity objectives.
- unsolicited applications.
To develop effective newspaper advertisements, employers should not:
- try to be too creative or flashy.
- overlook local newspapers or journals that target a specific market segment.
- encourage impulse applicants with weekend telephone numbers.
- highlight the major assets of the position.
Use of the Internet for recruiting is:
- popular with job seekers, but not recruiters.
- popular with recruiters, but not job seekers.
- cheaper and easier, but less effective than other methods.
- increasingly used by job seekers.
Executive search firms:
- help employers find the right people for jobs.
- charge a fee to job candidates only after they accept a job.
- lease executive level employees to organizations on both a long and a short term basis.
- advertise only in trade magazines.
Instead of helping jobseekers find the right job, these organizations concentrate on helping employers find the right person for a job:
- public employment agencies.
- trade unions.
- private employment agencies.
- executive search firms.
Ways to improve the effectiveness of external recruitment include all of the following except:
- training organizational recruiters.
- comparing effectiveness of recruiting sources.
- focusing on only one or two recruiting sources.
- conducting realistic job previews.