Question 1

Which of the following is a feature of school and college recruiting?

Accepted Answer

A)  Vocational colleges and technical schools often have cooperative programs with employers that funnel quality students into regular jobs. 
B)  College recruiting is one of the least expensive recruitment methods. 
C)  Companies who target minority students before they graduate are likely to be violating EEO laws. 
D)  School and college recruiting is a type of internal recruitment.

Question 2

The percentage hired from a given group of candidates is termed:

Accepted Answer

A)  the selection rate. 
B)  the success base rate. 
C)  the yield ratio. 
D)  the acceptance rate.

Question 3

What are the purposes of an application form?

Accepted Answer

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Question 4

The selection process for hiring the assistant to the mayor of a large city includes giving the finalists three hypothetical crisis scenarios. One deals with a terrorist threat at a sporting event, another deals with a plane crash at the airport, and the third deals with a major earthquake. Each candidate must describe her or his approach to handling the crisis, which will be recorded and evaluated by a panel. This is an example of a:

Accepted Answer

A)  competency interview. 
B)  behavioral interview. 
C)  stress interview. 
D)  situational interview.

Question 5

Define the term "employment brand."

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Which of the following is a defining characteristic of regular staffing?

Accepted Answer

A)  It uses workers who are traditional employees. 
B)  It uses independent contractors. 
C)  Companies can utilize the "try before you buy" approach. 
D)  Companies can avoid litigation associated with the termination of workers.

Question 7

An organization with a strong union may have a higher probability of having less flexibility than a nonunion company in deciding who will be hired and where a newly hired person will be placed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

In her interview for a position as a bartender at a luxury hotel bar, Megan was asked "What would you do if one of the customers started slurring her words and began making off-color jokes that other customers in the bar could hear?" Such types of questions are typically asked in _____ interviews.

Accepted Answer

A)  behavioral 
B)  nondirective 
C)  situational 
D)  stress

Question 9

It is legal for an employer to check a person's Social Security number, motor vehicle records, and military records when performing a background check on an applicant.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Which of the following statements is true of Internet recruiting?

Accepted Answer

A)  Twitter is rarely used by recruiters because of the 140-word limit. 
B)  The broad reach of Internet recruiting has significantly reduced the amount of discrimination against job seekers from racial/ethnic groups because it enlarges the applicant population exponentially over traditional recruiting methods. 
C)  An advantage of Internet recruiting is that by reaching out to so many people from diverse backgrounds, a very large pool of applicants can be generated. 
D)  An advantage of Internet recruiting is that it streamlines EEO data gathering because everyone who accesses a job website is considered an applicant for legal purposes.

Question 11

In the _____ approach for combining predictors, a minimum cutoff is set on each predictor, and each minimum level must be "passed."

Accepted Answer

A)  universal predictor 
B)  compensatory 
C)  multiple hurdles 
D)  matching

Question 12

Stacy, the HR manager of a bank, restricts her recruiting efforts for the post of loan officer to placing advertisements on the website of the American Banking Association. This will allow Stacy to determine the _____ for the job of loan officer.

Accepted Answer

A)  applicant population 
B)  labor force population 
C)  applicant pool 
D)  entire labor market

Question 13

Job fairs are primarily useful for:

Accepted Answer

A)  rapid hiring of large numbers of people. 
B)  maintaining a continuous presence in a local labor market. 
C)  passive recruiting. 
D)  keeping out unemployable applicants.

Question 14

Solange Allure Inc., a cosmetics company, is moving its operations from Bogalusa, Louisiana, to Seattle, Washington. Solange Allure will be changing its occupational labor market.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Negligent hiring occurs when an employer becomes aware that an employee may be unfit for employment but continues to employ the person, and the person injures someone on the job.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Recruiters have completely stopped using newspaper ads as a tool for external recruitment because job seekers use the Internet almost exclusively even in smaller cities and towns.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The problem of _____ occurs when interviewers make a decision on the job suitability of applicants within the first few minutes of the interview and spend the balance of the interview looking for evidence to support it.

Accepted Answer

A)  cultural noise 
B)  snap judgment 
C)  stereotyping 
D)  negative emphasis

Question 18

Roger, a new HR manager at Charlemagne Tools Inc., examines the application form that the company has been using for the last two years. According to the guidelines set by the EEOC and various court decisions, which of the following is an illegal question in the application form?

Accepted Answer

A)  Have you ever been convicted of a felony? 
B)  Can you perform the duties of the job with accommodation? 
C)  What is your driver's license number? 
D)  Please provide details of your medical history?

Question 19

The great advantage of structured selection interviews over unstructured interviews is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  naturalness and ability to set the candidate at ease. 
B)  effectiveness at organizational branding. 
C)  consistency in evaluation of candidates. 
D)  improvisational approach to gathering information about candidates.

Question 20

The group of applicants that an organization has available to it when using a particular recruiting approach, such as Internet job boards, is the applicant population.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 4: Staffing: Recruiting and Selection

Which of the following is a feature of school and college recruiting?

The percentage hired from a given group of candidates is termed:

What are the purposes of an application form?

Define the term "employment brand."

Which of the following is a defining characteristic of regular staffing?

An organization with a strong union may have a higher probability of having less flexibility than a nonunion company in deciding who will be hired and where a newly hired person will be placed.

In her interview for a position as a bartender at a luxury hotel bar, Megan was asked "What would you do if one of the customers started slurring her words and began making off-color jokes that other customers in the bar could hear?" Such types of questions are typically asked in _____ interviews.

It is legal for an employer to check a person's Social Security number, motor vehicle records, and military records when performing a background check on an applicant.

Which of the following statements is true of Internet recruiting?

In the _____ approach for combining predictors, a minimum cutoff is set on each predictor, and each minimum level must be "passed."

Stacy, the HR manager of a bank, restricts her recruiting efforts for the post of loan officer to placing advertisements on the website of the American Banking Association. This will allow Stacy to determine the _____ for the job of loan officer.

Job fairs are primarily useful for:

Solange Allure Inc., a cosmetics company, is moving its operations from Bogalusa, Louisiana, to Seattle, Washington. Solange Allure will be changing its occupational labor market.

Negligent hiring occurs when an employer becomes aware that an employee may be unfit for employment but continues to employ the person, and the person injures someone on the job.

Recruiters have completely stopped using newspaper ads as a tool for external recruitment because job seekers use the Internet almost exclusively even in smaller cities and towns.

The problem of _____ occurs when interviewers make a decision on the job suitability of applicants within the first few minutes of the interview and spend the balance of the interview looking for evidence to support it.

Roger, a new HR manager at Charlemagne Tools Inc., examines the application form that the company has been using for the last two years. According to the guidelines set by the EEOC and various court decisions, which of the following is an illegal question in the application form?

The great advantage of structured selection interviews over unstructured interviews is the:

The group of applicants that an organization has available to it when using a particular recruiting approach, such as Internet job boards, is the applicant population.