MNGT 361 Chapter 6 – Flashcards
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The process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organizational jobs is called:
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Recruiting
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Bryan is the recruiting specialist for an online retailing company in Missouri. He used all types of recruiting techniques available to him to fill nineteen job openings. Using these techniques, exactly nineteen applicants with the minimum qualifications were found and all the candidates accepted the job offer. Which of the following is true about this scenario?
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A selection process is not necessary in the given scenario.
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Which of the following would be an advantage for U.S. organizations that do not want to outsource their work overseas?
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Advancements in American worker productivity.
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The ____ includes all individuals available for selection, if all possible recruitment strategies are used.
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Labor force population
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Priam Designs Inc. is recruiting fashion designers through LinkedIn. This recruiting mode typically provides direct access to the _____.
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Applicant population
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Stacy, the HR manager of a bank, restricts her recruiting efforts for the post of loan officer to placing advertisements on the Web site of the American Banking Association. This will allow Stacy to determine the _____ for the job of loan officer
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Applicant Population
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The _____ pool consists of all persons who are actually evaluated for selection.
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Applicant
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Linda is the director of HR at Colette Value Inc., a large tax-preparation firm. The firm faces a dearth of tax preparers every year when the tax season approaches. Every December, Linda outsources a bulk of the recruiting process to an employment agency to recruit temporary employees before the tax season begins. However, she wants to do so without excessively limiting her final hiring decisions. Which of the following processes of recruitment should Linda carry out first hand?
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Face-to-face interviews
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Karl Graphics is conducting a vigorous recruiting campaign aimed at hiring 12 new employees within two weeks. This best exemplifies _____ recruiting.
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Intensive
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A(n) ____ typically takes over the staff of a small business and writes the paychecks, pays the taxes, prepares and implements HR policies, and keeps all the required records for a fee.
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Professional Employer organization
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One advantage of leasing companies for employees is that:
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Employers can save money on benefits
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Which of the following statements is true about employees of employee leasing companies?
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They are supplied by contract to employers with jobs.
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Which of the following candidates have the highest probability of being rejected by a U.S. organization that practices sound HR practices and recruits nontraditional diverse workers?
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A young college-educated Danish woman without an H1 visa.
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Patricia, an outstanding performer, was placed at Oliver & Co. by a temporary service firm for two months. Patricia's manager approaches Oliver & Co.'s HR Director with the request that she wants her as a regular employee. Given this scenario, which of the following statements is true?
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The temporary agency contract requires Oliver & Co. to pay a placement fee if Patricia is hired as a regular employee.
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In which of the following situations would the use of temporary workers be most appropriate?
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A tax preparation company that mostly handles individual clients and has few business clients.
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Angela is a self-employed graphic artist. She is usually hired by companies for special projects that lasts from a week to six months. Angela can be best described as a(n):
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independent contractor.
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Which of the following statements is true about recruiting diversity?
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Affirmative Action Plans include hiring goals for protected classes that the employer must try to meet with its recruiting efforts.
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If an employer lists the designation EEO/M-F/AA/ADA in its employment advertisements, it indicates that
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the employer has a policy of complying with equal employment regulations.
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Paul is the director of recruitment at Times Clockworks. After running a thorough study of their employees' backgrounds, Paul finds that Times Clockworks has disparate impact in the proportion of Hispanic employees compared to the proportion of Hispanics in its labor market. Which of the following steps should Paul take to solve the problem most efficiently?
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Begin advertising for job openings on the local Spanish radio station
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Which of the following statements is true about good recruiting efforts
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If a disparate impact exists between an employer's workforce and the relevant labor markets, then the employer is required by law to expand its external recruiting efforts.
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Which of the following statements is true of good recruiting efforts?
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It would be discriminatory for a race track to advertise job openings for "exercise boys."
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Edison Inc., an electrical utility company, is moving from using only traditional sources of electricity to promoting the use of solar and wind power. It is one of the first utilities in the country to move heavily to solar and wind-generated electricity. Which of the following steps should the HR director take in order to cope with these new technologies at Edison Inc.?
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Plan to do more extensive external recruiting for technical and engineering positions
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Which of the following is a defining characteristic of regular staffing?
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It uses workers who are traditional employees.
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A passive job seeker is one who:
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has a good job and is not actively looking to change jobs.
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Which of the following statements is true of job boards?
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Job boards enable job seekers to submit résumés to many employers simultaneously.
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John's Medical is recruiting for the post of an oncology nurse practitioner. It would be most effective for John's Medical to advertise:
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on the Web site of the oncology nurse practitioner professional organization.
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Which of the following is a feature of Internet recruiting?
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It requires the filing of applicant EEO reports.
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Which of the following statements is true of Internet recruiting?
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If a recruiter checks an applicant's Facebook account, learns that the applicant is Jewish, and then rejects the applicant, the company can be charged with an EEO discrimination complaint.
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The major saving in time generated by Internet recruiting compared with traditional recruiting is:
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the time taken for communication between the applicants and the employer.
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Exclusive use of the Internet for recruiting can reduce the diversity of an employer's applicant population because:
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individuals from lower socioeconomic groups mostly have limited access to the Internet.
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Which of the following would be the least important topic of training for a recruiter who will conduct interviews in a university campus?
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The company's job posting software
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When compared to internal recruitment, an advantage of external recruiting is that:
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it has the potential to generate larger applicant pools.
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Which of the following is an example of external sources of recruitment?
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A salon shifts from Boston to New York and employs a new cashier through internet recruitment.
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A salon shifts from Boston to New York and employs a new cashier through internet recruitment.
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Use different contact names, e-mail addresses, or phone number codes in each ad.
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The best criterion to analyze the effectiveness of an advertisement for applicants is to measure the:
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performance level of the hired applicants generated by the ad.
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Peter Cullen & Associates uses a private employment agency to locate engineering staff. The company pays a fee to the employment agency every time it hires a candidate provided by the employment agency. In this this scenario, Peter Cullen & Associates is using the services of:
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a contingency firm.
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There are two kinds of executive search firms; _____ firms charge a fee regardless of the success of the search.
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retainer
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There are two kinds of executive search firms; _____ firms typically charge a fee only when a candidate is hired.
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contingency
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In the building trade, unions can best benefit employers by providing:
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apprenticeship programs.
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Job fairs are primarily useful for:
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rapid hiring of large numbers of people.
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Which of the following is a feature of school and college recruiting?
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Vocational colleges and technical schools often have cooperative programs with employers that funnel quality students into regular jobs.
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Which of the following is true of internal recruitment?
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It has the potential to lead to EEO violations if the current workforce is not diverse.
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Which of the following is true of internal recruitment?
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It can aid succession planning, future promotions, and career development.
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Which of the following is an advantage of internal recruitment?
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Recruiting costs are comparatively lower.
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Which of the following is a feature of job posting and bidding?
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It gives existing employees the first chance at job openings before external candidates are considered.
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Calculating the average time from contact to hire allows a firm to most accurately:
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target the most time-efficient recruiting sources.
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A _____ is a comparison of the number of applicants at one stage of the recruiting process to the number at the next stage.
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yield ratio
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The percentage hired from a given group of candidates is termed:
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the selection rate.
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The percent of applicants hired divided by the total number of applicants offered jobs is termed as:
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the acceptance rate.
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What can a recruiter learn from calculating the acceptance rate?
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Whether recruiters can "close the deal" with top candidates
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Recruiting is essentially an administrative function rather than a part of strategic HR planning.
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False
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The term "applicant population" refers to all individuals looking for a job in a particular geographic area.
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False
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The group of applicants that an organization has available to it when using a particular recruiting approach, such as Internet job boards, is the applicant population.
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True
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Santiago is the HR director of Illumin Media, a mid-sized organization. He notices that the proportion of minorities in his company's managerial ranks is too low. To solve the issue, Illumin Media should consider recruiting methods that reach a larger applicant population of experienced managers, such as contacting professional associations.
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True
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Solange Allure Inc., a cosmetics company, is moving its operations from Bogalusa, Louisiana, to Seattle, Washington. Solange Allure will be changing its occupational labor market.
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False
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Continuous efforts to recruit offer the advantage of keeping the employer in the recruiting market.
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True
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Intensive recruiting may take the form of a vigorous recruiting campaign aimed at hiring a given number of employees.
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True
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Recruiting should be viewed as a type of organizational marketing and should be consistent with an organization's overall presentation of its image.
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True
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Employment agencies typically have their own workforce, which they supply by contract to employers with jobs.
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False
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Rules of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor determine which workers qualify as independent contractors.
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True
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Job boards can be used for internal recruitment but not for external recruitment.
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False
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Niche job sites are more useful for recruiting applicants with specific technical skills than are general job boards
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True
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Twitter is popular among recruiters because of the absence of any character limit.
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Fasle
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Blogging creates enough possible legal concerns that regulations may be implemented by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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True
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A disadvantage of Internet recruiting is that it generates large numbers of passive job seekers who, typically, tend to be of low-quality.
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False
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Internet recruiting generates high numbers of applicants and increases work for HR staff far beyond traditional recruiting methods.
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True
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Recruiters have completely stopped using newspaper ads as a tool for external recruitment because job seekers use the Internet almost exclusively even in smaller cities and towns.
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False
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Contingency firms charge a client a set fee whether or not the contracted search is successful.
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False
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An organization with a strong union has a higher probability of having less flexibility than a nonunion company in deciding who will be hired and where a newly hired person will be placed.
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True
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General job fairs are primarily preferred by employers who are involved in continuous efforts to recruit.
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False
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There are instances of companies that begin to attract students with capabilities while those students are in high school by encouraging them to participate in engineering internships during summers.
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True
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An automated job posting system that automatically contacts internal candidates by company e-mail is an effective method for keeping good employees from looking outside the company for advancement
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True
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Utilizing current employee referrals of family members and friends is not ethical because it increases the risk of committing nepotism.
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False
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Re-recruiting former employees is a way of avoiding "inbreeding" while still using an internal recruiting source.
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False
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Yield ratio is a measure of the quality of job applicants.
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False
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An example of yield ratio is the proportion of applicants who accept an offer compared to the number of applicants who were interviewed at a job fair.
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True
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Acceptance rate measures not just recruiting but selection issues as well.
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True
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Résumé mining allows HR staff to use software to extract the most promising résumés from a large database.
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True
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The success base rate is a long-term measure of whether the HR function has provided productive, long-term employees for an organization.
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True
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A long-term measure of recruiting effectiveness is to compare the number of past applicants who became successful employees with the number of applicants against whom they competed for their jobs.
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True
