Berman, Bowman, West, & Wart, Human Resource Management in Public Service, Sixth Edition
SAGE Publishing, 2020
Study Questions
Chapter 3: Recruitment: From Passive Posting to Social Media
Networking
1. What are key paradoxes of recruiting? (99–100)
2. Which decades were the high water mark for prestige of the public service? (100)
3. What five factors affect finding talented workers? (102)
4. Which is often the first factor that potential applicants review and consider? How do
the private, public, and nonprofit sectors compare in this respect? (103)
5. What is your experience with recruitment from an applicant’s perspective? (101)
6. What are the three steps in recruitment or staffing? (105)
7. What is proceduralism? (105)
8. What are three ways government reform initiatives have changed staffing? 106–107)
9. What is a labor-market survey? (107)
10. Why do a needs assessment? (107)
11. What are examples of important issues that can be found by a needs assessment?
(104)
12. What are some forms planning can take? (107–108)
Some forms are staff intake function is properly funded, working on the institutional image,
providing flexible schedules, and providing family support policies like childcare, comparable
pay, and technology upgrades. A final aspect of planning is to make sure that the process is
13. What are some red flags for managers? (109)
14. What is the point about hiring underqualified, but high-potential candidates? (109)
15. What is “pool hiring?” What are its advantages? (110)
16. What are three options concerning the breadth of involvement in recruiting? (110)
17. What are some advantages of generalists? (110)
18. What are some advantages of specialists? (111)
19. What are three key considerations in drafting job announcements? (111 and
following)
20. What are the pros and cons of job posting? (111)
21. What are the pros and cons of electronic postings? (111)
22. What is electronic job posting? (114)
23. What are the pros and cons of personal contact recruitment? (116)
24. What are the pros and cons of newspaper recruitment? (117)
25. What are the pros and cons of trade journals? (117)
26. What are the pros and cons recruiting through internships? (117)
27. What are the pros and cons of external recruitment (headhunting)? (118)
28. What are the pros and cons of noncompetitive recruitment? (118)
29. What is talent management? (119)
30. What is a major recruiting strength for many government and not-for-profit
organizations? What are some of the typical areas of involvement for these
organizations? (120)
31. What are three factors to consider in recruiting for diversity? (120–121)
32. Which of the recruitment tips are most useful? Why? (122–123)
33. Which of the career planning tips are most useful? Why? (124–125)