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 A letter from OFCCP to a contractor informing it that the agency believes the contractor has violated the terms of a Conciliation Agreement and that enforcement proceedings may be initiated unless the contractor demonstrates within 15 calendar days from its receipt of the letter that it has not violated its commitments under the agreement.

What is 15-day Notice ?

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The process of analyzing the organization’s strategic business plans and the current workforce in order to create a human resource strategy that will have employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities in place as they are needed. Also called human resource planning.

what is Workforce Planning ?

100

The major tasks, duties, and responsibilities for which the job exists; they cannot be modified or eliminated without substantially changing the nature of the job.

what is Essential Functions ?

100

An authorization to recruit a new employee to fill a job opening.

what is Employee Requisition ?

100

A method of testing the reliability of an instrument by using two alternate (or equivalent) forms of that instrument.

what is Alternate-forms Reliability ?

200

A written document that defines the good faith efforts an employer is making to hire and promote minorities, women, Vietnam era veterans, disabled veterans, and people with disabilities.

What is the Affirmative Action Program (AAP)?

200

A method of short-term forecasting in which the number of employees is identified by computing how many employee hours will be needed to produce the output that the organization expects to achieve.

What is Workload Analysis?

200

The analysis of jobs within a company that produces a job description or a job specification.

what is Job Analysis ?

200

The process of developing and projecting an image that defines a company as an outstanding employer.

what is Employment Branding ? 

200

A selection procedure primarily used for selecting managers in which candidates participate in individual and group exercises and are evaluated by observers.

what is Assessment Center ? 

300

Demeaning comments and actions directed toward older employees, such as age-related jokes, sarcasm, and derisive labels.

what is Age Harassment ?

300

A long-range forecasting method that is based on the estimates of each unit manager. These estimates are aggregated to identify the overall needs.

what is Unit Demand ?

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The description of the duties, responsibilities, working conditions, and reporting relationships contained in a job.

what is Job Description ?

300

How long it takes to replace a departing employee or fill a new job opening.

Fill Time

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The percentage of employees who would normally be considered successful without the use of a given selection procedure.

what is Base Rate of Success ?

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A method of testing the reliability of an instrument by using two alternate (or equivalent) forms of that instrument.

what is Alternate-forms Reliability ?

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An inventory of the skills and knowledge of employees that is used for making placement and promotion decisions.

What is Skills Inventory ?

400

A listing of the minimum acceptable qualifications required for an employee to perform a job adequately, such as experience and training, educational requirements, knowledge, skills, and ability.

What is Job Specification ?

400

A statement that describes what a company has to offer its employees relative to the rewards offered by other places of employment.

what is Employment Value Proposition (EVP) ? 

400

Interviews that ask applicants to describe specific behaviors or actions they have displayed in the past to demonstrate particular skills.

what is Behavioral Interviews ?

500

A system that tracks job applicants as they move through the steps of the recruitment and application process.

what is Applicant Tracking Systems ? 

500

An alternative to layoffs that involves having workers rotate in and out of unemployment.

what is Rolling Layoffs?

500

Job tasks that could be modified or re-assigned to others without changing the core nature of the job.

What is Non-essential Functions? 

500

An individual who is hired to complete a single project, often via a website or mobile app that helps match workers with employers.

what is Gig Workers ? 

500

A method of conducting interviews in which one person interviews a group of applicants at one time.

what is Group Interview ?

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