Chapter 5 Flashcards
Recruitment is the process of attracting individuals:
- on a timely basis.
- in sufficient numbers
- with appropriate qualifications
Document that specifies job title, department, the date the employee is needed for work, and other details.
Employee Requisition
are where qualified candidates are located, such as colleges or competitors.
Recruitment Sources
are the specific means used to attract potential employees to the firm, such as online recruiting.
Recruitment Methods
permit organizations to determine whether current employees possess the qualifications for filling open positions.
Human Resource Database
procedure for informing employees that job openings exist.
Job Posting
procedure that permits employees who believe that they possess the required qualifications to apply for a posted position.
Job Bidding
An employee of the company recommends a friend or associate as a possible member of the company; this continues to be the way that top performers are identified
Employee Referral
Types of Internal Recruitment
- Human Resource Database
- Job Posting
- Job Bidding
- Employee Referral
Actively recruiting employees from competitors.
Poaching
The use of mobile (smartphone) technology and online methods has revolutionized the way companies recruit employees and job seekers search and apply for jobs
Recruiting Technology
Recruiters use mobile apps to post jobs, run text message–based recruiting campaigns, create online communities for potential new hires to learn about their companies, monitor social networks for news about industries they hire for, and keep in touch with staff and outside agencies.
Mobile Recruiter
also called a cyber recruiter, is a person whose primary responsibility is to use the Internet in the recruitment process.
Internet Recruiter
recruiters prescreen résumés, contact candidates who are a potential fit, and store e-mail addresses.
Virtual Job Fair
Job sites accessible from a company home page that list the company positions available and provide a way for applicants to apply for specific jobs.
Corporate Career Websites
In General Purpose Job Boards, job seekers can search for jobs by:
- Category
- Experience
- Education
- Location
All a person has to do is type in a key phrase like marketing jobs.
Weblogs
Alliance among National Association of Colleges and Employers Direct Employers Association and Simplicity Corporation.
NACELINK NETWORK
Network of employment Web sites where any company can list job opening for free. Backed by nearly 600 hundred industrial companies.
.Jobs
Certain large companies have begun pooling job candidates. Those passes over by one company are invited to submit their resume to the alliance database.
AllianceQ
Website that cater to a specific profession
Niche Sites
Sites are available to assist contract workers. These let workers advertise skills, set their price and pick employers. Examples include: Freelance.com. Guro.com
Contract Worker Sites
Attract blue collar and service workers.
Hourly Work Job Sites
Often called headhunters. Best known for recruiting white collar employees. Used for virtually every kind of position. Not paid until a person is placed
Private Employment Agency
Increasingly involved in matching people with technical, professional and managerial positions
Public Employment Agency
Attract large number of applicants to one location. Opportunity to meet large number of candidates in short time.
Job Fair
Places student in a temporary job
Internship
Locate experienced professionals and executives. Target ideal candidates. Find those not actively looking for job
Executive Search Firm
Organization that has reputation of being good place to work, may be able to attract qualified prospects even without extensive recruitment efforts
Unsolicited Applicants
Pair potential hires and managers in warm, casual environment. Encourage on the spot job offers
Open Houses
Opportunity to promote image of the company. Recruiters go to events that the people firm is seeking attend
Event Recruiting
Uses where severe shortages highly skilled workers exist
Amount vary dramatically.
Sign-On Bonuses
Unique way to get individuals interested in applying for technical positions. Example: Top Coder creates software coding competitions.
Competitive Games
Attempt to steal personal information and set up fraudulent credit card accounts. Often crooks search for potential victims through posting high paying job on popular job-search Web sites.
Job Search Scams
Alternatives to Recruitment
- Outsourcing
- Overtime
Transfers responsibility to external provider.
Outsourcing
Type of outsourcing. Migration of all or significant part of development, maintenance and delivery of services to vendor located in another country.
Offshoring
Type of outsourcing. Moving jobs not to another country but to lower cost American Cities.
Onshoring
Most commonly used method of meeting short-term fluctuations in work volume.
Overtime
An individual’s capability to orchestrate and apply combinations of knowledge, skills, and abilities consistently over time to perform work successfully in the required work situations.
Competencies
Specifies and defines all the competencies necessary for success in a group of jobs that are set within an industry context.
Competency Modeling
Process of determining the specific tasks to be performed, the methods used in performing these tasks, and how the job relates to other work in an organization
Job Design
Changes in the content and level of responsibility of a job so as to provide greater challenges to the worker
Job Enrichment
Increasing the number of tasks a worker performs, with all of the tasks at the same level of responsibility
Job Enlargement
Moves workers from one job to another to broaden their experience.
Job Rotation
Potential job candidates, who are typically employed, satisfied with their employer, and content in their current role but if the right opportunity came along, they might like to learn more.
Passive Job Seekers
Individuals committed to finding
another job whether presently
employed or not.
Active Job Seekers
