CHAPTER 5 TALENT ACQUISITION UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Talent Aquisition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An emerging HR programming concept focused on
finding, acquiring, assessing, and hiring job candidates
Recruitment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The process of searching out and attracting qualified job
applicants, which begins with the IDENTIFICATION of a position that requires staffing and is completed
when RESUMES and/or completed application forms are received from an adequate number of
applicants
Recruiter - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A specialist in recruitment, whose job it is to find and attract
capable candidates
Employer Branding - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The image of an organization based on the benefits of
being employed by that organization
- includes experiences a candidate goes through during the recruitment process
- their experience with the company's website
- acknowledgement thanking candidate for their interest and resume
- initial greeting by the receptionist
- ability of the interviewer to articulate organization's value and culture
Recruitment Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Identify Job Openings
- HR planning/strategic plan
- employee regulations/terminations
2. Specify Job Requirements
- from job description/specification (ch. 3)
3. Select methods of recruitment
- internal/external (ch. 4)
, 4. Generate pool of qualified applicants
- employment equity/diversity goals
Advantages Within (of Recruiting from Within) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- enhances commitment ,
morale, and performance
- more committed to goals and less likely to leave (may be likely to leave if it appears there's nowhere
for you to go in the org)
- managers have longer-term perspective when making business decisions (notice lots of recruitment
comes from within - not outside hires)
- more accurate assessment of candidate's skills and performance level (you've observed them for a long
time rather than just an interview)
- requires less orientation
Disadvantages Within (of Recruiting from Within) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- discontent of
unsuccessful candidates
- time consuming to post and interview all candidates if one is already preferred (but there are
requirement saying you have to . ex. Kara)
- employee dissatisfaction with insider as new boss
- possibility of 'inbreeding' - tendency to think the same type of way when you're with an organization
for awhile. tend to fall into norms, hard to have new ideas or perspective
Internal Recruitment Methods - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Job Posting
Human Resources Records
ANSWERS
Talent Aquisition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An emerging HR programming concept focused on
finding, acquiring, assessing, and hiring job candidates
Recruitment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The process of searching out and attracting qualified job
applicants, which begins with the IDENTIFICATION of a position that requires staffing and is completed
when RESUMES and/or completed application forms are received from an adequate number of
applicants
Recruiter - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A specialist in recruitment, whose job it is to find and attract
capable candidates
Employer Branding - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The image of an organization based on the benefits of
being employed by that organization
- includes experiences a candidate goes through during the recruitment process
- their experience with the company's website
- acknowledgement thanking candidate for their interest and resume
- initial greeting by the receptionist
- ability of the interviewer to articulate organization's value and culture
Recruitment Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Identify Job Openings
- HR planning/strategic plan
- employee regulations/terminations
2. Specify Job Requirements
- from job description/specification (ch. 3)
3. Select methods of recruitment
- internal/external (ch. 4)
, 4. Generate pool of qualified applicants
- employment equity/diversity goals
Advantages Within (of Recruiting from Within) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- enhances commitment ,
morale, and performance
- more committed to goals and less likely to leave (may be likely to leave if it appears there's nowhere
for you to go in the org)
- managers have longer-term perspective when making business decisions (notice lots of recruitment
comes from within - not outside hires)
- more accurate assessment of candidate's skills and performance level (you've observed them for a long
time rather than just an interview)
- requires less orientation
Disadvantages Within (of Recruiting from Within) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- discontent of
unsuccessful candidates
- time consuming to post and interview all candidates if one is already preferred (but there are
requirement saying you have to . ex. Kara)
- employee dissatisfaction with insider as new boss
- possibility of 'inbreeding' - tendency to think the same type of way when you're with an organization
for awhile. tend to fall into norms, hard to have new ideas or perspective
Internal Recruitment Methods - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Job Posting
Human Resources Records
