Recruitment
This specific type of recruitment activity was visited twice this semester by our class.
What is a job fair?
The job analysis uses these descriptions of specific characteristics needed to carry out a task.
What is a KSAO?
This first step in the selection process refers to when an applicant pool is sorted into those with the MQ.
What is Screening?
This guest speaker talked about the challenges that industries face in recruiting in the North.
Who is Evie Nance?
Intelligence, general mental ability, or intellectual ability
Cognitive Ability
Changes in this external factor have led to increased requirements for diversity.
What is the Legal Environment?
This activity is one method used to gather information about a job and involves talking to someone or a group of people about the work that gets done.
What is the Structured Job Analysis Interview
or
Job Analysis Interview
In this tool a comparison is made between applicants who have been successfully screened and whether they would be successful on the job.
What is the screening matrix?
In this class activity we looked at four news articles about which company and their use of a unique recruitment process that backfired on them?
What is Amazon?
This term refers to a situation where an employer uses a policy or practice that inadvertently has a negative impact on members of a protected group.
What is Adverse Discrimination
or
Indirect Discrimination
The creation of this is the ultimate goal of the recruitment process.
What is the applicant pool?
These discrete sentences contain one action verb that concisely describes a single observable activity.
What is a task statement?
In this class activity members of the class took a test intended to test which construct?
What is Cognitive Ability?
This guest speaker talked about the challenges that practitioners in the HR field are facing as the field develops.
Who is Antonio Vera?
This is a group of related behaviours or attributes needed to successfully perform in an organization.
This organization used a unique recruitment method that they advertised with a very entertaining tune that everyone loved, even Frank.
What is Ikea?
This grid attempts to connect specific job tasks with the characteristics needed to complete those tasks in a concise and organized way.
What is a KSOA x Task Matrix
This term, when applied to the SELECTION process, refers to an applicant who has successfully been hired, but is not fit to hold the position.
What is a False Positive?
Members of the class partnered up and pretended to be part of an HR Team planning a series of recruitment tests for a new hospital. Which test was the focus of the activity?
What is Drug and Alcohol Testing?
By using this procedure, an organization can defend a discriminatory employment practice by arguing that it is reasonably necessary to assure the efficient and economical performance of the job.
What is a BFOR?
or
Bona Fide Occupational Requirement
This problematic source of possible applicants is often used to find passive applicants.
What is social media network recruiting?
or
What is social media?
This unique approach to job analysis relies on an analysis of an complete observable human activity, or incidence, by a panel of Subject Matter Experts.
What is a Critical Incident Technique
This term refers to the worst case scenario when a SCREENING process results in an error.
What is a False Negative?
In this activity we discussed several issues facing recruiters in the north by visiting different stations and brainstorming solutions to the prompts.
The degree to which a test or a procedure assesses an underlying theoretical idea or concept that has been identified as important to performance.
What is construct validity?