Employment Vacancies

Employment Vacancies (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Sourcing Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment vacancies and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Recruitment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is What Sourcing Is.

Key terms

Employment vacancy (job opening). The employment that lacks the employee now or would possibly lack the employee in some future. The vacancy might be (a) funded and available right now, (b) sought for the candidate pipeline; hiring of pipeline candidates is contingent on some circumstance, for instance, awarding a contract, (c) fictionally created to research the job market of potential employment candidates and create or update their database, if the need unexpectedly emerges. Those employment candidates who are found through that research might be included in the pipeline as well.

Recruitment need. A necessity to hire one or more new employees in order to satisfy one or more business needs.

• Job analysis. An assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to perform them.
• Job description. A written statement that describes a job.
• Credential creep. The process of inflation of the minimum credentials required for a given job and the simultaneous devaluation of the value of diplomas and degrees.

Script

An employment vacancy is the employment that lacks the employee now or would possibly lack the employee in some future. The vacancy might be (a) funded and available right now, (b) sought for the candidate pipeline; hiring of pipeline candidates is contingent on some circumstance, for instance, awarding a contract, (c) fictionally created to research the job market of potential employment candidates and create or update their database, if the need unexpectedly emerges. Those employment candidates who are found through that research might be included in the pipeline as well.

Recruitment need refers to a necessity to hire one or more new employees to satisfy one or more business needs.

On one hand, the need is wider than the funded and available vacancy because the need doesn't specify the number of the vacancies and their scopes. On another hand, the need is more real than an abstract vacancy.

When a unique business need emerges, someone in the hiring organization conducts job analysis, which is an assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to perform them.

Based on that analysis, a recruiter or someone else in the organization creates one or more job descriptions. The description refers to a written statement that describes a job.

Credential creep is the process of inflation of the minimum credentials required for a given job and the simultaneous devaluation of the value of diplomas and degrees. Those who create the job description sometimes inflate the minimum credentials to get fewer, but better candidates.

A job opening is another term that is often used for an employment vacancy.

Position Requirements is the successor lectio.

Questions

Placement entrance exam

Every statement below is split into one true and one false question in the actual exam.

1. Job analysis is (not) an assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to perform them.
2. Job description is (not) an assessment that defines jobs and the behaviors necessary to perform them.
3. Job analysis is (not) a written statement that describes a job.
4. Job description is (not) a written statement that describes a job.
5. KSA stands (or does not stand) for knowledge, skills, and abilities.
6. KSA is (not) a series of narrative statements that describe competencies that the employer is looking for.
7. Work-related knowledge is (not) a part of KSA.
8. Work-related skills are (not) a part of KSA.
9. Work-related abilities are (not) a part of KSA.
10. Work-related knowledge is (not) a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something needed for a particular job.
11. Work-related knowledge is (not) the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results relevant to a particular job.
12. Work-related knowledge is (not) the capability to perform some function or functions and achieve certain outcomes important to a particular job.
13. Work-related skill is (not) a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something needed for a particular job.
14. Work-related skill is (not) the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results relevant to a particular job.
15. Work-related skill is (not) the capability to perform some function or functions and achieve certain outcomes important to a particular job.
16. Work-related ability is (not) a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something needed for a particular job.
17. Work-related ability is (not) the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results relevant to a particular job.
18. Work-related ability is (not) the capability to perform some function or functions and achieve certain outcomes important to a particular job.