1. Genevieve is interviewing a new candidate, Marcus, with whom she is very impressed. He has the perfect educational background, professional experience, and cultural fit for a position she is trying to fill. She has not met any comparable candidates during the hiring campaign for this position. However, when she runs a background check, she finds that he was arrested for a DUI approximately eight years ago but was not charged. Besides this, his background check returns clear. What is the best course of action for Genevieve to take in this situation?

A) Ignore the charge and offer Marcus the job
B) Set up an appointment with Marcus to find out the context around the charge
C) Assume there is an error on the background check
D) Eliminate Marcus from the talent pool and continue interviewing other candidates



2. Lowry recently experienced the death of a loved one. While Lowry was once a stellar employee, he now begins to come to work late and is slow to finish his tasks. He appears disinterested in his work and eventually begins using up his sick days. Lowry's manager tries to support him by providing grievance resources, offering new job responsibilities, and providing the option of working from home; however, Lowry is not interested in any of these options. What lesson can Lowry's manager learn from this situation?

A) Managers should get to know their employees outside of work, rather than only in the workplace
B) Employees should be fired at the first sign of disengagement from their job duties
C) Managers should not care too much about their employees as it can cause emotional distress
D) Employee motivation is often influenced by factors that are outside of the manager's control



3. An HR team is developing a budget for a hiring campaign. The associated costs include marketing material; a venue rental for the hiring fair; and the time, labor, and salaries of the staff who will work at the fair. What types of costs are these?

A) Indirect costs
B) Training costs
C) Regulatory costs
D) Direct costs



4. What does it mean when a process has been validated?

A) That the process has been archived and no longer needs review
B) That process inputs are tightly controlled and produce the same desired output each time the process takes place
C) The process has been approved by an external regulatory board, like the FDA
D) That the process has been approved by upper management



5. Myra and Angela are two HR professionals who work in the same organization. Recently, Myra successfully implemented a sustainability initiative with the marketing department, where she helped them reduce the amount of paper they use. This led to saved paper, printing, and labor costs as well as reduced physical waste. Angela would like to try this initiative with the finance department, which is welcome to this idea. How can Angela begin to allocate resources for this project?

A) Set up a meeting with Myra to discuss how she allocated resources and what went successfully, as well as what did not go successfully, and use this data to plan
B) Use her best guess to document what she believes the finance department will need in order to reduce their paper waste and provide a written copy to the manager
C) Ask the HR intern to devote all of his time to her initiative
D) Copy Myra's initiative as closely as possible, right down to the budget and timeline