Exam 6: Sourcing: Identifying Recruits

Internal recruiting sources locate people who currently work for the company who would be good recruits for other positions.

Which of the following is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?

Explain in brief,with reference to any nontraditional applicant pool,how an organization can attempt to effectively recruit such candidates.

Career sites are cost-effective and enable an organization to communicate its job requirements and values to all applicants.

People who rely on their own contacts and research and the organization's database of potential applicants to find recruits are known as ________.

Retainer firms are ________.

Differentiation refers to the coordination of a single global staffing strategy with the organization retaining adequate controls over local operations.

What is meant by employee profiling in sourcing?

Which of the following recruitment strategies can help an organization reduce labor costs and improve customer service together with pursuing top talent?

Which of the following recruitment strategies can reduce the possibility of overlooking qualified internal talent?

Which of the following means of sourcing talent is sometimes considered unethical?

Employee profiling identifies what the firm's successful current employees like to do and how people like them can be recruited.

Angstrom is a company that produces electronic goods.In the past,Angstrom used newspaper advertisements as the only method to recruit engineers.Recently it used college hiring,career sites,and employee referrals in addition to its usual method.Which of the following would be the most likely result of this?

Passive job seekers can be easy to find as they are constantly on the lookout for a better opportunity.

What is global sourcing? Explain in brief the primary challenge of global sourcing.

ABZ Corp.has tried to fill the post of a senior project engineer for a while but has been unable to find a suitable candidate.To avoid further delay in the execution of a major project,ABZ Corp.decides to target Julian Patterson,rival firm Telstra Inc.'s junior project engineer.On getting an offer that not only pays substantially more than what he currently gets,but also offers greater responsibilities and more learning opportunities,Julian accepts the position.Which of the following is most similar to the sourcing strategy used in the example above?

Which of the following are considered to be an underutilized labor source?

Web sites that continually search the Web for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits are called ________.

A new college graduate looking for his or her first job is a(n)________.

The management at Ajax Corporation believes that internal recruiting sources are the best,especially when it comes to filling vacant positions higher up in the hierarchy.Team leaders and managers at Ajax regularly update the internal records of all employees and their performances,promotability,career interests,etc.This allows the company to quickly and cheaply source qualified internal candidates who can be contacted whenever a position needs to filled.Most of Ajax's managers were promoted to their respective positions with the help of this internal database.Which of the following methods of internal sourcing does Ajax use?