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WorksheetsReviewer Personnel Planning and Recruitment
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 57mins
What is the first step in the recruitment and selection process?
Performing initial screening interviews
Building a pool of candidates
Performing candidate background checks
Deciding what positions to fill
Marcus, an HR manger for Samsung, must decide what positions the firm should fill in the next six months, which means Marcus is currently working on ____.
Screening job candidates
Personnel planning
Interviewing job candidates
Writing job descriptions
The process of deciding how to fill executive positions at a firm is known as ____.
Internal recruiting
Succession planning
Long-term forecasting
Advanced interviewing
Which one one of the following terms refere to studying a firm’s past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?
Ratio analysis
Trend analysis
Graphical analysis
Computer analysis
Newton Building Supplies hopes to generate an extra $4 million in sales next year. A salesperson traditionally generates $800,000 in sales each year. Using ratio analysis, how may new salespeople should Newton hire?
2
5
10
20
Which one of the following contains data regarding employees’ education, career development, and special skills and is used by managers when selecting inside candidates for promotion?
Computerized forecasting tools
Skills inventories
Trend records
Scatter plots
When managers need to determine which current employees are available for promotion or transfer, they will most likely use ____.
Scatter plots
Skills inventories
Estimated sales trends
Personnel forecast
All of the following are methods used by films to develop high-potential candidates for future positions EXCEPT ____
Providing internal training
Implementing job rotation
Offering global assignments
Developing skills inventories
Smith Industries is thinking of having another company take care of its benefits management. This is called ____
Outsourcing
Recruiting
Telecommuting
Screening
Recruiting is necessary to _____
Determining whether to use inside or outside candidates.
Forecast the short-term supply of outside candidates
Create positive word-of-mouth about a firm
Develop an applicant pool
Which one of the following is the primary disadvantage of using internal sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a frim?
Lack of knowledge regarding a candidate’s strengths
Potential to lose employees who aren’t promoted
Questionable commitment of candidates to the firm
Significant training and orientation requirements
Maria Boyd has been hired by Barnum Hotels to manage staffing for the regional hotel chain. Barnum intends to open two new hotels within the next three years and will have many job positions to fill. Historically, employee turnover is high at Barnum as employees remain with the company for one or two years before quitting. Maria realizes that Barnum needs to make significant changes in its personnel strategy in order to meet the company's goals for the future and improve employee retention rates.
All of the following questions are relevant to Mari's decision to fill top positions at the new hotels with internal candidates EXCEPT:
What are the key managerial positions that are available at the new hotels?
What percentage of employers in the service industry use succession planning?
What skills, education, and training have been provided to potential candidates?
What is the designated procedure for assessing and selecting potential candidates?
Which one of the following is NOT a tool used by firms to recruit outside candidates?
Newspaper advertising
Intranet job postings
Employee agencies
Online job boards
Which one of the following factors plays the greatest role in determining the best medium for a job advertisement?
Skills needed for the job
Job compensation
Time allowed to fill in the position
Graphics used in the advertisement
An employer will most likely use a private employment agency in order to ____..
Receive assistance writing job ads
Adhere to legal hiring practices
Fill a specific job opening quickly
Spend more time recruiting applicants
Newton Manufacturing is using a private employment agency to recruit individuals for management positions. As the HR manager at Newton! You need to ensure that applicants are screened properly, so you should ____.
Provide the agency with an accurate job description
Post jobs on the firm’s intranet and bulletin boards
Develop applicant screening software for internal hires
Senr HR exeprts to monitor the agency’s recruiting activities
Kate works as a nurse on temporary assignment for hospitals throughout the region on as-needed basis. Kate is most likely ____.
Working as contingent worker
Participating in a job rotation
Using job enlargement
Benchmarking jobs
What is ad advantage of using employee referral campaigns?
Local, hourly, workers can be recruited quickly.
Applicant’s have received realistic job previews
Rewards and incentives are eliminated
Applicants have community ties
Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm’s intranet or bulletin board is known as job posting.
True
False
