Talent Acquisition
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Talent Acquisition explores the strategies, tools, and processes organizations use to attract, identify, and secure top talent to meet their human resources needs. This course covers workforce planning, employer branding, job analysis, sourcing techniques, assessment and selection methods, and onboarding best practices. Students will gain insight into legal and ethical considerations, diversity and inclusion, and contemporary challenges in recruiting in a competitive global landscape. Through case studies and practical exercises, learners will develop the skills necessary to design and implement effective talent acquisition strategies aligned with organizational goals.
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Recruitment and Selection in Canada 7th Edition by Victor M. Catano
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Recruitment and Selection
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Q1) What two important principles ensure a human resources system functions properly
A)Enhance communication between human resource functions and ensure ethical compliance.
B)Assess the impact of legislative requirements and scan the socioeconomic environment for trends.
C)Emphasize the roles of recruitment and selection and apply them to organizational strategy.
D)Think in systems terms and coordinate human resource activities with all organizational units and people.
Answer: D
Q2) Ethics can be defined in a variety of ways.According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a definition of ethics
A)knowing what is good from what is bad
B)determining what is moral from what is immoral
C)identifying what may be done from what may not be done
D)distinguishing what is right from what is wrong
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Foundations of Recruitment and Selection I: Reliability
and Validity
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Q1) Which employment test has been identified as being biased in favour of males
A)Bennett Mechanical Comprehension test
B)Wonderlic Personnel test
C)Toronto Police Service physical abilities test
D)cognitive ability test
Answer: A
Q2) What is bias in selection
Answer: Bias refers to systematic errors in measurement, or inferences made from those measurements, that are related to different identifiable group membership characteristics such as age, sex, or race.
Q3) What is a defining characteristic of a practice-based selection process
A)It is defensible.
B)It is intuitive.
C)It is system-wide.
D)It is structured.
Answer: B
Q4) Achieving fairness often requires compromise between conflicting interests.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Foundations of Recruitment and Selection 2: Legal Issues
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Q1) What legal term states that there is a justifiable reason for a discriminatory employment practice or policy based on the necessity for business operations
A)sufficient risk
B)employment equity
C)bona fide occupational requirement
D)affirmative action
Answer: C
Q2) In an employment interview, it is acceptable (legal) to ask candidates if they are prepared to travel or be transferred if those are requirements of the job.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) During the interview process, inquiries about the applicant's religion may be justified if they seek to establish the existence of a bona fide occupational requirement (i.e., if the job involves communicating religious values).
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Job Analysis and Competency Models
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Q1) Refer to Scenario 4-1.How might you approach managers at Scribe Engineering who are not receptive to a job analysis process
A)Focus on involving senior managers in the initial gathering of existing job information.
B)Involve managers and employees prior to the beginning of the job analysis process.
C)Ensure that the completion of questionnaires is mandatory.
D)Include all the hesitant managers in job analysis focus groups.
Q2) Refer to Scenario 4-1.What internal influences are affecting the jobs and human resources at Scribe Engineering
A)the labour market
B)customers
C)the competition
D)job design
Q3) TS Ltd.has 30 employees.As the HRM, would you suggest that the company conduct a job analysis
What questions could you ask in gathering job information that would help TS Ltd.write a job description and job specifications for its aircraft maintenance engineers
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Chapter 5: Job Performance
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of contextual behaviour
A)extra effort
B)leadership
C)supervision
D)personal discipline
Q2) Define performance management.
Q3) In Campbell's theory of work performance, what concept refers to the degree to which individuals are committed to performing all job tasks, to working at a high level of intensity, and to working under adverse conditions
A)maintaining personal discipline
B)supervision/leadership
C)demonstrating effort
D)job-specific proficiency
Q4) The usefulness of selection measures is assessed by how well they predict performance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is contextual performance
Briefly describe two categories of contextual performance.
Q6) Explain how human rights relate to performance appraisal processes.
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Chapter 6: Recruitment: the First Step in the Selection Process
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Q1) Refer to Scenario 6-2.Which of the following questions would NOT be relevant to a job advertisement campaign to target nursing applicants
A)How will the costs of advertising be balanced by reaching the target applicant pool
B)What advertising media will reach the target applicant pool
C)How many applicants do we need to fill the position with qualified people
D)What type of ad content will attract the target applicant pool's attention
Q2) Which term defines a set of potential candidates who may be interested in, and who are likely to apply for, a specific job
A)members of a protected group
B)the labour market
C)a contingent work force
D)an applicant pool
Q3) Refer to Scenario 6-1.Which of the following would TS Inc.need to be prepared for with a switch to Internet recruiting
A)much higher advertising costs
B)much higher volume of applicants to manage
C)long lead times
D)reduced number of local applicants
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Chapter 7: Selection I: Applicant Screening
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Q1) Job applicants have to be screened with great care.Explain.
Q2) There are many online recruitment companies that help organizations with online candidate sourcing, job board posting management, and many other electronic methods to attract job seekers to organization positions.These companies are increasingly offering more online recruitment and selection services that are much more than just posting job advertisements online.Give an example of how companies can incorporate technology to screen applicants online either through their own company career website or by using a large national or international website.Describe some potential benefits and challenges of online screening.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a commonly used screening method
A)résumés
B)testing
C)application forms
D)reference checks
Q4) Screening seeks to find a sufficient number of qualified applicants.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The first impression created by the résumé is not a factor in screening.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Selection 2: Testing
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Q1) What is the term for a specific, narrow ability or skill that may be used to predict job performance
A)skill
B)personality
C)ability
D)aptitude
Q2) What is the goal of employment testing
Q3) What is personality and what are two ways that personality can be measured
Q4) Work samples and simulations are testing procedures that require job candidates to produce behaviours related to job performance under controlled conditions that approximate those found in the job.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What kind of test is the Wonderlic Personnel Test
A)Personality Inventory
B)Cognitive Ability Test
C)Vocational Interest Inventory
D)Sensory Ability Test
Q6) What is psychological testing, and how are psychological tests used
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Chapter 9: Selection 3: Interviewing
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Q1) What is one negative outcome of pre-interview chit-chat
A)It is usually a waste of time and deemed unimportant in the screening process.
B)The conversation might lead the candidate to believe that the interviewer is interested in his or her social life.
C)The candidate might not think that the interview has started and be too relaxed.
D)Questions may uncover information on prohibited grounds.
Q2) One concern with the behaviour description interview is that applicants could make up stories about events that never happened.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which type of structured interview describes hypothetical on-the-job incidents and asks applicants what they would do
A)behaviour description interview
B)situational interview
C)comprehensive structured interview
D)behavioural sample interview
Q4) What is an unstructured interview
Q5) Describe three purposes of the employment interview.
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Chapter 10: Decision Making
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Q1) An approach in which data are combined statistically is referred to as a judgmental composite.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which approach to collecting and combining applicant information involves the decision maker forming an overall impression of the applicant based on gut feelings or implicit theories, rather than on explicit, objective criteria
A)the pure judgment approach
B)the trait rating approach
C)the profile interpretation approach
D)the judgmental composite approach
Q3) Refer to Scenario 10-1.TS Inc.wants the relationship between the actual number of people hired and the number who applied for a position to yield 0.8.What is this proportion of applicants called
A)applicant ratio
B)standard deviation
C)selection ratio
D)selection pool
Q4) Describe three selection decision-making models.What are the advantages of each
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