Chapter 5 - Expanding the Talent Pool: Recruitment and Careers Flashcards
A software application recruiters use to post job openings, screen resumes, and contact via e-mail potential candidates for interviews, and track the time and costs related to hiring people
Applicant Tracking System
A company’s efforts to help existing and prospective workers understand why it is a desirable place work
Branding
The process of discussing with employees their current job activities and performance personal and career interests and goals, personal skills and suitable career development objectives
Career Counseling
The process of establishing mutually beneficial relationships with other businesspeople, including potential clients and customers
Career Networking
Lines of advancement in an occupational field within an organization
Career Paths
A situation in which for either organizational or personal reasons the probability of moving up the career ladder is low
Career Plateau
Couples in which both members follow their own careers and actively support each other’s career development
Dual Career Partnerships
The process of dismissing employees who are then hired by a leasing company (which handles all HR-related activities) and contracting with that company to lease back the employees
Employee Leasing
Employee Profile
A profile of a worker developed by studying an organization’s top performers in order to recruit similar types o f people
Fast-Track Program
Accelerated development or promotion of individuals to positions with more responsibility
The business practice of searching for and utilizing goods sources from around the world
Global Sourcing
Labor markets in which workers are hired into entry level jobs and higher levels are filled from within
Internal Labor Market
The hierarchy of jobs a new employee might experience, ranging from a starting job to jobs that successively require more knowledge and/or skill.
Job Progressions
Individuals who coach, advise, and encourage individuals of lesser rank.
Mentors
Nepotism
A preference for hiring relatives of current employees
A comparative diagram that includes appraisal and assessment data to allow managers to easily see an employee’s actual and potential performance
9-Box Grid
Services provided by organization to help terminated employees find a new job
Outplacement Services
Passive Job Seekers
People who are not looking for jobs but could be persuaded to take new ones given the RIGHT opportunity
Promotion
A change of assignment to a job at a higher level in the organization
Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO)
The practice of outsourcing and organization’s recruiting function to an outside firm
Informing applicants about all aspects of the job, including both its desirable and undesirable facets
(RACHEL)
Realistic Job Preview (RJP)
Services provided to an employee who is transferred to a new location, which might include moving, selling a home, orienting to a new culture, and/r learning a new language
Relocation Services
Recruiting
enroll or take on somebody: to enroll somebody as a worker or member, or to take on people as workers or members
Sabbatical
An extended period of time in which an employee leaves an organization to pursue other activities and later returns to his or her job (paid/unpaid)
Placement of an individual in another job for which the duties, responsibilities, status, and remuneration are approximately equal to those of the previous job
Transfer
The % of applicants from a recruitment source that make it to the next stage of the selection process
Yield Ratio