People - Talent Acquisition (Sourcing and Recruiting) Flashcards
Which is the first activity an HR professional would complete when beginning to recruit for an open position?
Sourcing
Sourcing precedes (comes before) recruitment. This activity generates a pool of qualified individuals who may be potential candidates for the opening. Organizations use a variety of techniques and incorporate employment branding to source talent.
Which recruitment method would best support an organization’s attempts to attract Generation Y applicants?
Social Media
Born in the mid-1980s and later, Generation Y has grown up with technology and has a high use and familiarity with electronic communications, media, and digital technologies. Other demographic groups also use social media, so the organization would reach them, too. However, social media would be well-suited to communicate with Generation Y candidates.
Which best describes the process of sourcing?
Generating a pool of qualified applicants
Sourcing is the process by which an organization generates a pool of qualified applicants. It is an ongoing process that must be integrated with other functions of the staffing process.
Which method best determines recruiting effectiveness?
Organizations need to evaluate recruitment strategies against objective criteria. Yield ratios produce factual data that can be used to determine which source, method, or recruiter produces the greatest yield.
Which statement about using social media as a primary recruiting tool is correct?
There is a risk of unintentional discrimination against certain groups.
Because the use of social media may be limited by possession of, access to, or understanding of the enabling technology, recruiting only through social media may result in discrimination.
Which of the following is an advantage of external recruiting?
Provides cross-industry insights
Hiring from competitors will lead to the introduction of alternative ideas which can encourage innovation and improved productivity and effectiveness.
Which is a significant factor that an HR professional must consider when using a website to recruit for a global enterprise?
Data privacy regulations
Data privacy issues must be examined carefully. There are country- and region-specific regulations that pertain to what personal information can be gathered and used.
An organization received 150 applicants from an advertisement, 50 of whom were minority applicants. It interviewed 36 qualified applicants, 12 of whom were minority applicants. What is the yield ratio of qualified applicants to total applicants?
.24
This yield ratio is determined by dividing the number of qualified applicants by the number of total applicants (36 / 150 = 24%).
An organization’s yield ratio for offers rejected compared to offers extended for qualified applicants increased from 50% in year 1 to 75% in year 2. What recommendation should HR make to improve the selection results for an organization in a growth mode?
Review the employee value proposition along with newly hired attrition data and recent exit interview surveys.
It is probable that pay, benefits, and the employment brand suffer from lack of attention and resources.
Which of the following is a legal consideration that is associated with using social media for recruiting?
Inadvertently discovering information that is illegal to use when considering an applicant
Use of social media in recruiting may inadvertently uncover information such as marital status or sexual orientation that is illegal to use when considering a candidate, which may open the organization up to discrimination allegations from candidates.
Which approach to effectively sourcing a diverse pool of applicants should be used by a company with an aging workforce?
Proactively using multiple tactics simultaneously with shorter response times
No one approach will result in the goal of a more diverse and balanced workforce. Multiple tactics should be used.
An organization has always posted jobs internally before advertising them externally. However, managers are frustrated by the time it takes to fill open jobs. To what problem within the organization does this point?
Managers do not understand the benefits of providing a fair and equitable system of job posting, promotions, and lateral moves.
HR managers need to explain how the disadvantage of a slow hiring process is offset by having a fair and equitable system. Managers and HR should work together to find ways to speed up the hiring process.
An organization is looking to use internal recruiting methods to help forecast which jobs they may be able to easily fill with internal candidates if they open up in the future. Which internal recruiting method would be most helpful?
Job bidding
Job bidding allows employees to indicate interest in positions.
HR has identified the need to increase staffing efficiency in order to meet the needs of the organization as it continues to grow. HR particularly wants to reduce search time and time to fill and improve the analysis of the quality of the candidates. Which is the best way to achieve the targets set by HR?
Leverage predictive analytics to analyze and place candidates more accurately.
Leveraged efficiently, predictive analytics can improve the analysis of the quality of candidates.
