Workshop 3 Flashcards
Internal factors for the recruitment process include the following:
- Budget constraints
- Expected or trend of employee separations
- Production levels
- Sales increases or decreases
- Global expansion plans
External factors for the recruitment process might include the following:
- Changes in technology
- Changes in laws
- Unemployment rates
- Shifts in population
- Shifts in urban, suburban, and rural areas
- Competition
What is a job analysis?
It is a formal system developed to determine what tasks people actually perform in their jobs
What is a task-based analysis job analysis?
The focus of task-based analysis is the job duties required
What is a competency-based job analysis?
It’s focus is on how a person can apply their skills to perform the job.
When you finished the job analysis you write the job description, what does it intale?
- Job functions
- Knowlegde, skills and abilities
- Education and experience required
- Physical requirements of the job
After the job description, what is the next step?
Obtaining the approval from the hiring manager
What is the last step after you obtained the managers approval?
The HR professional can begin to recruit for the position
What is job design?
It refers to how a job can be modified or changed to be more effective
What are job specifications?
The skills and abilities a person must have to perform the job
What is in a job description?
- recruiting
- salary
- career planning
- training
What are five types of recruiters?
- Excecutive search firm
- Temporary recruitment or staffing firm
- Corporate recruiter
- Contigent recruiter
- Retained recruiter
Traits of campus recruiting
- lack of experience
- specialized in something specific
- will be trained into managers
Examples of professional associations
- Professional Nursing Association
- United Professional Sales Association
- International Federation of Journalists (union)
- International Metalworkers Federation (union)
- Association of Flight Attendants (union)
What is the key to using a succesful recruitment strategy?
Identify the organizations that relate to your business and to develop relationships with members in these organizations.
What is the recruitment process?
- staffing plans
- develop job analysis
- write job desriptions
- job specifications development
- know laws relating to recruitment
- develop a recruitment plan
- implement a recruitment plan
- accept application materials
- selection process
The goal of using social media as a recruiting tool is:
- To create a buzz about your organization
- to share stories of succesfull employees
- smaller companies can post job openings as their status updates
What can you use SIG’s (Special Interest Groups) for?
To target a specific group of people who are trained in a specific area or who have a certain specialty
What is nepotism?
it is a preference for hiring relatives of current employees, which can also lead to lack of diversity and management issues in the workplace
Examples of incentives that can be used to refer a friend:
- A gift card to the employee
- A financial incentive
- Raffles for most referrals
Employee referral programs (ERPs) tend to generate one of the highest returns on investment per hire (true/false)
TRUE
To make an ERP effective, some key components are:
- to communicate the program to existing employees
- to track the succes of the program using metrics of succesful hires
- to be aware of the administrative aspect and the time it takes to implement the pogram effectively
- set measurable goals up front for a specialized programme
formula cost per hire:
advertising costs + recruiter costs + referral costs + social media costs + event costs
What is a yield ratio?
A yield ratio is the percentage of applicants from one source who make it to the next stage in the selection process
