Exam 6: Sourcing: Identifying Recruits

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

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

Filling lower-level positions from the local labor market and higher-level positions from the regional or national labor market is an example of ________.

Geographic targeting can help an organization reduce turnover.

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

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

Applicant flow is the number and type of applicants coming from each recruiting source.

Sourcing nontraditional applicant pools often requires more creative sourcing activities than does sourcing traditional applicant pools.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

The need to acknowledge and respect the diversity of local cultures when sourcing and managing a global workforce is called ________.

Job fairs are best for finding passive job seekers.

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 is a benefit of social networking as a sourcing method?

Explain the role of geographic targeting in the sourcing process.

Online job fairs are best for recruiting____________________