Chap-6 terms

Question 1

Active-job seekers?

Answer 1

people who need a job and are actively looking for information about job openings

Question 2

Semi-passive job seekers?

Answer 2

people who are interested in a new position but only occasionally look actively for one

Question 3

Passive job seekers?

Answer 3

people who are currently employed and are not actively seeking another job but could be tempted by the right opportunity

Question 4

Internal recruiting sources?

Answer 4

locate people who currently work for the company who would be good recruits for other positions

Question 5

External recruiting sources?

Answer 5

target people outside the firm

Question 6

Succession management?

Answer 6

the ongoing process of recruiting, evaluating, developing, and preparing employees to assume other positions in the firm in the future

Question 7

Employee development?

Answer 7

training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm

Question 8

Leadership development programs?

Answer 8

specific type of employee development that develops the leadership skills of employees seen as having leadership potential

Question 9

Internal job posting systems?

Answer 9

systems that publicize a firm’s open jobs to the company’s employees

Question 10

Employee referrals?

Answer 10

practice by which current employees identify and refer promising recruits

Question 11

In-house sourcers?

Answer 11

employees who rely on their own contacts and research and the organization’s database of potential applicants to source potential recruits

Question 12

Job fairs?

Answer 12

sourcing and recruiting events at which multiple employers and recruits meet with each other to discuss employment opportunities

Question 13

Trade fairs?

Answer 13

events that gather people from a particular industry to learn about current topics and products in their field

Question 14

Observation?

Answer 14

watching people working in similar jobs for other companies to evaluate their potential fit with your organization

Question 15

Resume’ database?

Answer 15

searchable collections of prescreened resume’s submitted to the company

Question 16

Career sites?

Answer 16

pages on an organization’s website devoted to jobs and careers within the company

Question 17

Internet job boards?

Answer 17

internet sites that allow employers to post jobs and job seekers to post resume’s and use a search engine to find one another

Question 18

Search firms?

Answer 18

independent companies that specialize in the recruitment and placement of particular types of talent

Question 19

Raiding competitors?

Answer 19

practice of hiring top talent away from competitors

Question 20

Internet data mining?

Answer 20

searching the internet to locate passive job seekers with the characteristics and qualifications needed for a position

Question 21

Boolean searches?

Answer 21

internet search technique that allows a search to be narrowed by using special terms before the key words

Question 22

X-raying?

Answer 22

searching for pages that are all on the same host site

Question 23

Flip searching?

Answer 23

finding people who link to a specific internet site

Question 24

Web crawlers?

Answer 24

web sites that continually search the web for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits

Question 25

Networking?

Answer 25

process of leveraging your personal connections to generate applicants

Question 26

Offshore labor?

Answer 26

employees living and working in other, usually lower cost, countries

Question 27

Walk-ins?

Answer 27

people who apply directly with companies

Question 28

Sourcing plan?

Answer 28

prioritizes which recruiting sources should be used to staff a given position to best meet staffing goals

Question 29

Employee profiling?

Answer 29

process that helps a firm identify what its successful current employees like to do and how people like them can be recruited

Question 30

Recruiting yield analysis?

Answer 30

tracks the recruiting sources that produced each applicant and evaluates each recruiting source on the basis of relevant criteria including the number and proportion of qualified applicants coming from each source and their demographic characteristics

Question 31

Geographic targeting?

Answer 31

sourcing recruits based on where they live

Question 32

Global sourcing?

Answer 32

sourcing employees on a global basis