Exam 6: Sourcing: Identifying Recruits

A persistent problem that prevents most firms from hiring people with disabilities is the lack of affordable technologies that could enable firms to accommodate them at a low cost.

Which of the following refers to the training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm?

For firms whose talent philosophy supports promotion from within,internal sourcing is the core of the staffing system.

Which of the following external recruiting sources is fast,cheap,and useful for finding active job seekers?

Which of the following external recruiting sources is useful for finding semi-passive and passive job seekers?

An organization that is currently composed of primarily white males may discriminate against minorities and women if it uses which recruiting source?

Publicizing open jobs to employees is known as ________.

What is employee profiling? How can it be used to create a sourcing plan?

Hiring top talent away from another company is an example of using which recruiting source?

Axis Partners,a Canadian mutual fund,recently expanded its operations by opening a branch in Shanghai,China,to handle market analysis.The company used an integration strategy for staffing its new office.Entry-level positions in Shanghai were filled by recruiting graduates from local campuses.However,they soon realized that this strategy was not as successful in China as it was in Canada.Which of the following,if true,could explain the reason for this?

In geographic targeting,the labor market used to source lower-level positions in a firm is most likely to be ________.

SteelMakers Inc.(SMI)is in urgent need of senior sales executives.Sales have declined in the last three quarters while the market share of their leading competitor,Steelworld,has steadily increased.SMI has realized that they are not losing out because of inferior products,but because they have not been able to pitch their products as well as Steelworld.After careful observation of the sales efforts of the latter,the SMI management has decided to offer extremely lucrative,hard to refuse,deals to one or two selected members of Steelworld's sales team.Which of the following modes of sourcing is SMI using in this case?