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| Market exchange process in which employers attempt to differentiate their products among consumers who vary in their levels of jobrelevant KSA |
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| Employee recruitment-and-selection process |
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*Job Analysis ---> SWP---->
1. Recruitment: KSA
2. Intial screening: rapid, rough selection process (ref. check)
3. Selection: personal interviews
4. Orientation: intro to co. policies, practices, and benefits
5. Placement: assignment of indiv. to job
6. Training
7. Performance mgmt.: feedback |
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| Recruitment policy: Passive Nondiscrimination |
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| Commitment to treat all races and both sexes equally in all decisions about hiring, promo, and pay |
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| Recruitment policy: Pure diversity-based recruitment |
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| effort by org. to actively expand the ppol of applicants so that no one is exluded becaues of past or present discrimination. However decision to hire is based on best-qualified and not race or sex. |
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| Recruitment policy: Diversity-based recruitment with preferential hiring |
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| Systematically favors women and minorities in hiring and promo deciosion...."soft-quota" system. |
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| Recruitment policy: Hard quotas |
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| Represents a mandate to hire or promote specific number or proportions of women or minority group members. |
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| How long does it typically take to fill a position? |
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laying off ppl but need to recruit special ppl. Major challenges: 30% layoff and turnover, undereppresented diversity, sexist comments (discrimination), long term hiring needs, recruiter herself is unsure of the future.
What factors should AlumXformatics consider when developing its recruitment policy?
-labor market
-strategy: what positions need to be filled permmanent/temporarily
-How quickly |
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identifying whether or not the composition of the workforce measured by race and sex is representative of the composition of the entire labor market available to perform the job.
*court ordered if the difference btwn actual number and expected number is so large that the diff. would have only 1 chance in 20 of occuring, it is reasonable to conclude race was a factor in hiring (4/5ths rule) |
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| Geographical area within which forces of supple interact with forces of demand and therby determine the price of labor. |
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| # of ppl needed and when they are needed |
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1. Job posting - advertising avilable jobs thru bulletion boards, or lists
2. Employee Referrals
3. Temporary worker pools |
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-University relations
-Virtual Job fairs
-Executive search firms
-Employment agencies
-Recruitment Advertising (homepage) |
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| What types of minority recruitment policies are most appropriate for ALum? |
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Pure diversity based recruitng - actively expand pool of applicants
Diversity based recruitment with preferential hiring to get minority/women. |
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| What makes a recruiter effective? |
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-Knowledge of job and package around it
-Your passion, do you care?
-Relate to ppl your trying to recruit
-Great comm. skills (ability to communicate what hte job is and the package around it)
-timing/keeping in touch during process |
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- Nearly 60% of all internet hires come from a co's wb site
-only 6% of hires for mgmt level jobs occur thru internet...most is networking
-belief that 80% of job openings are never advertised is a MYTH! |
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| How do you know if recruiting methods are working? |
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-cost of operations
-cost per hire
-number of resumes
-diversity of candidates
-aceptance/offer ratio |
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| in addition to telling applicants about the nice things...recruiters must tell about the unpleasant aspects of the job |
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| What to do if you can't find external candidates? |
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-find temps
-long term training program
-redesign job
-pay overtime
-outsource |
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