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What is the cornerstone of personnel selection?
Job Analysis
Internal recruitment involves hiring someone from outside the organization.
False
Which methods of recruitment are mentioned?
What are Campus Recruiters?
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What is a significant advantage of internal recruitment?
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What do executive search firms typically handle?
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Direct mail recruitment involves sending help-wanted letters or brochures to ______.
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What is a method that can attract the greatest number of applicants?
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What must be ensured when developing an employee referral program?
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Study Notes
Job Analysis
- Cornerstone of personnel selection
- Every essential knowledge, skill, and ability identified in the job analysis that is needed on the first day of the job should be tested.
- Every test must somehow relate to the job analysis.
Recruitment
- Attracting people with the right qualifications to apply for the job
- Internal Recruitment - promote someone from within the organization
- External Recruitment - hire someone from outside the organization
Media Advertisements
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Newspaper Ads
- Respond by calling
- Apply-in-person ads
- Send-resume ads
- Send resume to a blind box
- Ads displaying the company emblem and using creating illustrations attract the greatest number of applicants.
- Ads that include salary range and a company phone number attract highest quality applicants.
- Ads containing realistic information about the job rather than information that is too good to be true increase applicant attraction to the organization.
- Ads containing detailed descriptions of the job and organization provide applicants with an idea of how well they would fit into an organization and result in positive thoughts about it.
- Ads containing information about the selection process affect the probability that the applicants will apply for a job.
- Electronic Media - television and radio
- Situation-Wanted Ads - placed by the applicants rather than by organizations
Point-of-Purchase Methods
- Based on the same point-of-purchase advertising principles used to market products to consumers
- Job vacancy notice is placed where customers are likely to see them
Recruiters
- Campus Recruiters
- Outside Recruiters - outside recruiting sources as private employment agencies, public employment agencies, and executive search firms
Employment Agencies and Search Firms
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Employment Agencies
- Charge the company or the applicant
- Useful if an HR department is overloaded with work or if an organization does not have an individual with skills and experience needed to select employees properly
- Company loses control over its recruitment process and may end up with undesirable applicants
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Executive Search Firms
- Jobs they represent tend to be higher-paying, non-entry level positions
- Charge to the organization
- Fees charged are usually 30% of the applicant’s first-year salary
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Public Employment Agencies
- Designed primarily to help the unemployed find work, but they often offer services such as career advisement and resume preparation.
- Government programs are often available that will help pay training costs
- State and local employment agencies
Employee Referrals
- Current employees recommend family members or friends for specific job openings
- Most effective recruitment method
- Ensure that the referral pool is representative of the ethnic and racial makeup of the qualified workforce.
- At risk of possible discrimination
Direct Mail
- Employer obtains a mailing list and sends help-wanted letters or brochures to people through the mail
- Especially useful for positions involving specialized skills.
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