Factors influencing recruitment and Pre-employment screening tests

Part Six - External and Internal Factors That Are or Will Impact Recruitment and Selection Practices

In completing part six of the assignment, teams should refer to Wagner Industries and:

a.Discuss five external or internal factors that are currently influencing (or will influence) the work and practices of recruiters in the coming years. In answering this question, teams must:


• describe each factor and categorize the factor as an internal or external influence (5 marks)

• describe exactly how the factor will influence the work of recruiters - i.e., would the factor make recruitment and selection less difficult or more difficult and why (10 marks)

NOTE: In answering part six, students should use information from at least four sources of material (see the guidelines on page 1). Students should contact the instructor if they have questions about a source of material that they would like to use.

Information and concepts from the sources must be cited in the answer and included in a reference list which is placed immediately after the answer. Teams should follow APA formatting standards in citing sources in the answer and reference list.


Part Seven - Pre-employment Screening Tests That Could be Used for Assessing Applicants for the Director of Human Resources Position (15 marks)


In completing part seven of the assignment, teams should refer to Tots and Toddlers Clothes in the case study and:

a.Describe three clearly different pre-employment screening tests that could be used for assessing the competencies and skills of the short-listed applicants for the Director of Human Resources position. Students should provide the following information for each of the three screening tests (5 marks for each screening test – total of 15 marks for the three screening tests)
 o Category of the test (for example, a recruiter could use a physical ability test if

they were screening applicants for a warehouse worker)

o Name and brief description of a test that would fit into this category of the test (i.e., Muscular Power Test) 


o Reason for choosing the test for assessing applicants for the Director of Human Resources position 


o Overview of the activities or kinds of questions that the applicant would undertake in completing the screening test

NOTE: In describing the pre-employment screening tests that could be used for 
 assessing applicants for the Director of Human Resources position, students 
 should use information from the case study, the textbook and at least three 
 other sources. For this answer, students may use information from the Internet 
 that focuses on psychometric tests or other kinds of screening tests.

Students should contact the instructor if they have questions about a source of material that they would like to use.


NOTE: Information and concepts from the sources must be cited in the answer 
 and included in a reference list which must be placed immediately after the answer.

Teams should follow APA formatting standards in citing sources in the answer and reference list.