Recruitment & Selection Planning
This term refers to a database of employees’ skills, abilities, and experiences.
What is a Talent Inventory?
This term describes how well a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is Validity?
This process seeks out and attracts potential job candidates.
What is Employee Recruitment?
These tests require quick answers, often measuring speed rather than accuracy.
What are Speed Tests?
This type of impression formed within the first few seconds of an interview can bias results.
What is a Snap Judgment?
This step involves forecasting future hiring needs based on organizational goals and turnover rates.The extent to which a test accurately predicts future job performance.
What is Workforce Forecasting?
The ability of a test’s validity to extend across situations, settings, and samples.
What is Validity Generalization?
An honest description of job duties, challenges, and expectations provided before hiring.
What is a Realistic Job Preview?
Unlike speed tests, these focus on problem-solving accuracy with ample time.
What are Power Tests?
This process uses multiple exercises, simulations, and observers to evaluate managerial potential.
What is an Assessment Center?
When an organization pays different wages for the same work across genders, this concept challenges that practice.
What is Comparable Worth?
A test’s overall value to an organization, considering cost, accuracy, and decision-making improvement.
What is Test Utility?
Adjusting performance standards to accommodate specific workers or groups.
What is Exceptioning?
This type of test asks applicants to demonstrate job-related skills directly.
What is a Work Sample Test?
Structured situational role-plays designed to mimic job challenges.
What is a Situational Exercise?
These measurable characteristics determine job worth and pay structure.
What are Compensable Factors?
This model uses statistical analysis to predict job performance using multiple predictors.
What is the Multiple Regression Model?
Detailed strategies outlining how HR will achieve staffing goals.
What are Action Plans?
Personality inventories sometimes produce dishonest responses, known as this behavior.
What is Faking?
Type of interview mistake where a qualified applicant is rejected.
What is a False Negative Error?
The HR step that evaluates the success of recruitment and training efforts.
What is Control and Evaluation?
This approach sets a minimum score that must be achieved on all tests for consideration.
What is the Multiple Cutoff Model?
A measure of whether recruitment or training efforts meet performance outcomes.
What is Control and Evaluation?
When several tests are combined to assess multiple job-related abilities.
What is a Test Battery?
Determining which candidate fits best in a particular role after selection.
What is Employee Placement?