Chapter 6 Flashcards
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people who need a job and are actively looking for information about job openings.
Active Job Seekers
people who are interested in a new position but only occasionally look actively for one.
Semi-Passive Job Seekers
people who are currently employed and are not actively seeking another opportunity.
Passive Job Seekers
locate people who currently work for the company who would be good recruits for other positions.
Internal Recruiting Sources
target people outside the firm.
External Recruiting Sources
the ongoing process of recruiting, evaluating, developing, and preparing employees to assume other positions in the firm in the future.
Succession Management
training of employees to extend their capabilities and prepare them to assume other jobs and roles in the firm.
Employee Development
a specific type of employee development that develops the leadership skills of employees seen as having leadership potential.
Leadership Development Programs
systems that publicize a firm’s open jobs to the company’s employees.
Internal Job Posting Systems
a practice by which current employees identify and refer promising recruits.
Employee Referrals
employees who rely on their own contacts and research and the organization’s database of potential applicants to source potential recruits.
In-House Sources
sourcing and recruiting events at which multiple employers and recruits meet with each other to discuss employment opportunities.
Job Fairs
events that gather people from a particular industry to learn about current topics and products in their field.
Trade Fairs
watching people working in similar jobs in similar jobs for other companies to evaluate their potential fit with your organization.
Observation
searchable collections of prescreened resumes submitted to the company.
Resume Databases
pages on an organization’s website devoted to jobs and careers within the company.
Career Sites
Internet sites that allow employers to post jobs and job seekers to post resumes and use a search engine to find one another.
Internet Job Boards
independent companies that specialize in the recruitment and placement of particular types of talent.
Search Firms
the practice of hiring top talent away from competitors.
Raiding Competitors
searching the internet to locate passive job seekers with the characteristics and qualifications needed for a position.
Internet Data Mining
an internet search technique that allows a search to be narrowed by using special terms before the key words.
Boolean Searches
searching for pages that are all on the same host site.
X-Raying
finding people who link to a specific internet site.
Flip Searching
web sites that continually search the web site for information about people with desirable talents and sell access to their database of potential recruits.
Web Crawlers
