Read the artice beow about the methods some companies are now using for recruitment.
Choose the correct word to fi each gap from (A, B, C orD) on the opposite page.
For each question21-30,mark one etter(A, B, C orD) on your Answer Sheet.
There is an exampe at the beginning,(0)
The Scientific Approach to Recruitment
When it (0) to seecting candidates through interview, more often than not the decision is made within the first five minutes of a meeting. Yet empoyers ike to (21) themseves that they are being exceptionay thorough in their seection processes. In today’s competitive market pace, the (22) of staff in many organizations is fundamenta to the company’s success and, as a resut , recruiters use a means at their disposa to (23) the best in the fied.
One method in particuar that has (24) in popuarity is testing , either psychometric testing, which attempts to define psychoogica characteristics , or abiity￡aptitude testing (25) an organization with an extra way of estabishing a candidate’s suitabiity for a roe. It (26) companies to add vaue by identifying key eements of a position and then testing candidates to ascertain their abiity against those identified eements.
The empoyment of psychometric or abiity testing as one (27) of the recruitment process may have some merit, but in reaity there is no rea (28), scientific or otherwise, of the potentia future performance of any individua. The answer to this probem is experience in interview techniques and strong definition of the eements of each position to be (29) as the whoe recruitment process is based on few rea certainties, the instinctive decisions that many empoyers make, based on a CT and the first five minutes of a meeting, are probaby no ess vaid than any other too empoyed in the (30) of recruitment.
Exampe :
A haveB decide C doD make
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A B C D
21.A suggest B convinceC advise D beieve
22.A worth B creditC quaity D distinction
23.A secure B reies C attain D achieve
24.A ifted B enargedC expanded D risen
25.A provides B offers C contributes D gives
26.A etsB enabes C agrees D admits
27. A portion B memberC shareD component
28. A extent B size C amount D measure
29.A occupied B metC fiedD appointed
30 A business B topicC pointD affair
