Pearson Edexcel IGCSE · Business

Recruitment and selection process: Practice Questions

3 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 5 written questions with worked solutions. All on Recruitment and selection process.

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Question 1

1 mark

Which document outlines the specific qualifications, skills, and personal qualities required by a candidate to be successful in a job role?

Question 2

1 mark

A company experiencing a decline in market share decides to use external recruitment for a key leadership position instead of internal recruitment. Which statement best evaluates this decision in terms of its impact on the business?

Question 3

1 mark

A large corporation decides to implement a policy of internal recruitment for all senior management vacancies. What is a major risk associated with this strategy?

Question 4

2 marks

State one key difference between a full-time employment contract and a part-time employment contract.

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Question 5

4 marks

Explain the difference between a job description and a person specification during the recruitment process.

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Question 6

5 marks

Analyze how equal opportunities laws (regarding gender or disability) influence the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process.

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Question 7

3 marks

When a business decides to hire a new office manager, it must prepare specific recruitment documents.
(a) Define the term job description.
(b) Identify one piece of information that would be found in a person specification but not in a job description.

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Question 8

6 marks

A company needs to recruit a new Marketing Director. They are choosing between internal recruitment and external recruitment.
Evaluate this choice by discussing:
(i) The impact on employee motivation for existing staff.
(ii) The potential for new ideas and innovation within the marketing department.

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