Employee Planning and Recruitment

• What is the first step in the recruitment and selection process?

  Deciding what position to fill
• Marcus, an HR manager for Samsung, must decide what positions the firm should fill in the next six months, which means Marcus is currently working on what?

  personnel planning
• The process of deciding how to fill executive positions at a firm is known as?

  succession planning
• What term refers to studying a firm's past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?

  trend analysis
• Newton Building Supplies hopes to generate an extra $4 million in sales next year. A salesperson traditionally generates $800,000 in sales each year. Using ratio analysis, how many new salespeople should Newton hire?

  5
• What contains data regarding employee's education, career development, and special skills and is used by managers when selecting inside candidates for promotion?

  skills inventories
• When managers need to determine which current employees are available for promotion or transfer, they will most likely use what?

  skills inventories
• Providing internal training, Implementing job rotation, Offering global assignments, and Developing skills inventories are methods used by firms to develop high-potential candidates for future positions, however, which of these methods aren't used by firms when developing candidates?

  Developing skills inventories
• Smith Industries is thinking of having another company take care of its benefits management. This is called

  outsourcing
• Recruiting is necessary to

  Develop an applicant pool
• What is a primary disadvantage of using internal sources of candidates to fill vacant positions in a firm?

  Potential to lose employees who aren't promoted
• Maria Boyd has been hired by Barnum Hotels to manage staffing for the regional hotel chain. Barnum intends to open two new hotels within the next three years and will have many job positions to fill. Historically, employee turnover is high at Barnum as employees remain with the company for one or two years before quitting. Maria needs to make significant changes but it isn't necessary for her to

  Find out the percentage of employers in the service industry who uses succession planning
• Which of the following is not a tool used by firms to recruit outside candidates?

  • Newspaper advertising
  • Intranet job postings
  • Employment agencies
  • Online job boards

  Intranet job postings
• A factor playing the greatest role in determining the best medium for a job advertisement

  Skills needed for a job
• An employer will most likely use a private employment agency in order to 


  Fill a specific job opening quickly
• Newton Manufacturing is using a private employment agency to recruit individuals for management positions. As the HR manager at Newron, you need to ensure that applicants are screened properly, so you should

  Provide the agency with an accurate job description
• Kate works as a nurse on temporary assignment for hospitals throughout the region on an as-needed basis. Kate is most likely

  Working as a contingent worker
• What is an advantage of using employee referral campaigns?

  Applicants have received realistic job previews
• Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm's

  intranet or bulletin board is known as job posting.

  true