Recruitment

Question 1

What is resourcing?

Answer 1

The idea of staffing an organisation

Question 2

What does resourcing have links to?

Answer 2

It has close links to forward planning, and assessing and rectifying any gaps in employee number of skills

Question 3

List the three endings to the sentence. Resourcing involves planning to identify:

Answer 3

Capability gaps and surpluses
Poor workforce utilisation
Talent pool development

Question 4

What is recruitment?

Answer 4

The process of generating a pool of candidates to select staff from

Question 5

What are the four methods of recruitment?

Answer 5

Internal: open or closed
External: informally or formally

Question 6

What are the four criteria for methods of selecting employees from candidates?

Answer 6

Practicable: acceptable, cost-effective, easily administered
Sensitive: evaluate the ability to do the job
Reliable: accurate, free from contamination
Valid: relevant relationship between attributes and criteria

Question 7

What are the three common forms of employee screening?

Answer 7

Application forms
Telephone interviews
Face-to-face interviews

Question 8

What are the positives and negatives of application forms as an employee screening process?

Answer 8

+ obtains comparable data
+ pre-determined structure
- can duplicate the CV, wasting time

Question 9

What are the positives and negatives of telephone interviews as a form of employee screening?

Answer 9

+ fast screening tool

• lose non-verbal cues
• can be daunting to both interviewers and interviewees

Question 10

What are the positives and negatives of face-to-face interviews as a form of employee screening?

Answer 10

+ face-to-face contact
+ flexible size, can be one-to-one, small group, or panel
- relies on the competence of interviewers and interviewees

Question 11

What are the positives and negatives of selection testing as a form of employee screening?

Answer 11

+ cognitive tests

• questionable reliability
• can be biased
• people can train to take the tests

Question 12

What are the positives and negatives of collaborative hiring as a form of employee screening?

Answer 12

+ prospective employees meet the team they will be working with
+ multi-stage interview process
+ gives team members a voice in the hiring process
- very resource intensive