All of the following are reasons of pre-employment testing EXCEPT

• A) Minimize or eliminate bias in the selection
• B) Screen out protected group members from selection
• C) Predict acceptable or unacceptable on-the-job behavior
• D) Allow employers to identify potentially unfit workers

Which of the following is a common objection to the competency based application form?

• A) Scrutiny is time taking activity
• B) Expensive way of presentation
• C) Provision of materialistic facts
• D) Improper character evidence

Which one of the following tests is used as a lie-detector during screening of job applicants?

• A) Polygraph Test
• B) Psychological Test
• C) Intelligence Test
• D) Behavioral Test

Video screening is used primarily as a tool for screening:

• A) None of the given options
• B) Executive level applicants
• C) Blue-collar applicants
• D) Grass-root level applicants

Which of the following term is similar to an “exploratory interview”?

• A) Job interview
• B) Competency-based interview
• C) Informational Interview
• D) Experience based interview

Which of the following company uses unique selection approaches like pre-employment dinners, cocktail parties, work experience programs, on site visit and summer internships?

• A) Chenone
• B) National Bank
• C) Millat Tractors
• D) Dell Computer

A candidate for the post of public relation officer appeared for interview in front of three people i.e. HR representative, a senior manager, and potential boss-to-be. This is an example of which of the following type of formal job interview?

• A) Panel interview
• B) Case interview
• C) One-on-One interview
• D) Peer interview

A research conducted to find out the relationship between employees test score and job performance. What is employees test score?

• A) A moderator
• B) A predictor
• C) A mediator
• D) A criterion

Bio data is the short form used for what?

• A) Biochip Data
• B) Bioinformatics Data
• C) Biographical Data
• D) Biological Data

Which one of the following tests is used to measure an individual’s reasoning ability?

• A) Interest Test
• B) Personality Test
• C) Aptitude Test
• D) Intelligence Test

Which one of the following types of interview helps the interviewee to get a fair idea about the organization and matching his/her skills and personality with the job?

• A) Case interview
• B) Peer interview
• C) Panel interview
• D) Exploratory interview

Which of the following are the three best known ways to measure predictor reliability?

• A) Chroma alpha, Spiro test and Bootstrapping
• B) Test/retest, Split halves and Parallel forms
• C) Criterion, content and construct
• D) Mediation, moderation and conditional process analysis

HR Manager administers a history of aptitude test to a group of applicants and later compares their test scores with their job performance. This is an example of obtaining evidence of:

• A) External reliability
• B) Internal reliability
• C) Predictive validity
• D) Concurrent validity

_______________is written to highlight the applicant’s most significant and impressive credentials whereas ______________ is a listing of questions that require factual responses.

• A) Cover letter; Curriculum vitae
• B) Resume; job application
• C) Bio data; Curriculum vitae
• D) Job application; Resume

Which of the following is NOT purpose of an interview?

• A) Proceeding with initial screening process
• B) Gathering information about competencies
• C) Creating a pool of job applicants
• D) Conducting in-depth assessment of the candidate

In which one of the following types of interview, the interviewer tries to put interviewee under intense pressure to assess how he/she handles multitasking, deadlines, late sittings and work overload?

• A) Informational interview
• B) Directive interview
• C) Stress interview
• D) Work sample interview

Who are the most appropriate for conducting stress interviews?

• A) Panel interviewers
• B) Skilled interviewers
• C) Telephone interviewers
• D) Sequential interviewers

Which one of the following forms the groundwork for an agreement between an employer and the incumbent as to expected job performance results?

• A) Job evaluation
• B) Job allocation
• C) Job description
• D) Job specification

Under EEO legislation, irrelevant and unnecessary questions may lead to which state?

• A) Discrimination
• B) Specification
• C) Contrast
• D) Miss behaving

Asking an applicant to give an example of a time when he/she had to deal with a difficult person at work is part of which of the following type of interview?

• A) Work sample interview
• B) Informational interview
• C) Behavioral interview
• D) Stress interview