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Newton Manufacturing is using a private employment agency to recruit individuals for management positions. As the HR manager at Newton, you need to ensure that applicants are screened properly, so you should ________.

A) provide the agency with an accurate job description
B) post jobs on the firm's intranet and bulletin boards
C) develop applicant screening software for internal hires
D) send HR experts to monitor the agency's recruiting activities

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following has improved the ability of executive recruiters to find potential candidates?

A) mobility premiums
B) Internet databases
C) corporate intranets
D) broad banding

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Personnel planning requires an estimation of personnel needs, the supply of inside candidates, and the likely supply of outside candidates.

A question on an employment application form that requests the dates of attendance and graduation from various schools may be illegal as it could reflect an applicant's age.

Publicizing an open job to current employees through a firm's intranet or bulletin board is known as job posting.

Pablo wants to figure out likely future employment needs for Slate Industries by examining past organizational employment needs of the company. This is an example of:

Which of the following terms refers to studying a firm's past employment needs over a period of years to predict future needs?

Which of the following is a service that provides short-term specialized recruiting to support specific projects without the expense of retaining traditional search firms?

Counselors in state-run employment agencies conduct all of the following activities EXCEPT ________.

When managers need to determine which current employees are available for promotion or transfer, they will most likely use ________.

What mathematical process do employers use to forecast availability of internal job candidates that shows the probabilities that feeder positions in a chain will be filled?

According to U.S. court ruling, it is always illegal to recruit applicants with gender-specific ads, but using word-of-mouth to spread information about job opportunities is legal in all situations.

Which of the following terms refers to the background investigations, tests, and physical exams that firms use to identify viable candidates for a job?

The fees associated with both retained and contingent executive recruiters are increasing as firms struggle to find qualified candidates.

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 ________.

Marie 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. Marie realizes that Barnum needs to make significant changes in its personnel strategy in order to meet the company's goals for the future and improve employee retention rates. Which of the following, if true, best supports the argument that a scatter plot is the most appropriate tool for Marie to use in estimating future personnel needs?

What tools are available for projecting personnel needs? Provide your answer in a brief essay.

What is the typical compensation structure for on-demand recruiting services?

Which of the following factors plays the greatest role in determining the best medium for a job advertisement?

The assumption shared by both trend analysis and ratio analysis is that productivity remains about the same from year to year.