Recruitment Flashcards

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What is resourcing?

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The idea of staffing an organisation

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2
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What does resourcing have links to?

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It has close links to forward planning, and assessing and rectifying any gaps in employee number of skills

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List the three endings to the sentence. Resourcing involves planning to identify:

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Capability gaps and surpluses
Poor workforce utilisation
Talent pool development

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4
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What is recruitment?

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The process of generating a pool of candidates to select staff from

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5
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What are the four methods of recruitment?

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Internal: open or closed
External: informally or formally

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What are the four criteria for methods of selecting employees from candidates?

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Practicable: acceptable, cost-effective, easily administered
Sensitive: evaluate the ability to do the job
Reliable: accurate, free from contamination
Valid: relevant relationship between attributes and criteria

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What are the three common forms of employee screening?

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Application forms
Telephone interviews
Face-to-face interviews

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What are the positives and negatives of application forms as an employee screening process?

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+ obtains comparable data
+ pre-determined structure
- can duplicate the CV, wasting time

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What are the positives and negatives of telephone interviews as a form of employee screening?

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+ fast screening tool

  • lose non-verbal cues
  • can be daunting to both interviewers and interviewees
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What are the positives and negatives of face-to-face interviews as a form of employee screening?

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+ face-to-face contact
+ flexible size, can be one-to-one, small group, or panel
- relies on the competence of interviewers and interviewees

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What are the positives and negatives of selection testing as a form of employee screening?

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+ cognitive tests

  • questionable reliability
  • can be biased
  • people can train to take the tests
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What are the positives and negatives of collaborative hiring as a form of employee screening?

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+ prospective employees meet the team they will be working with
+ multi-stage interview process
+ gives team members a voice in the hiring process
- very resource intensive

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