On Average, How Much Time Do Employers Spend Screening an Individual's

question 25

Multiple Choice

On average, how much time do employers spend screening an individual's résumé?

• A) seven to ten seconds
• B) about thirty seconds
• C) two to three minutes
• D) ten minutes

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Definitions:

Internal Rate of Return

The discount rate that makes the net present value of all cash flows from a particular project equal to zero.

Net Present Value

A method used in capital budgeting to assess the profitability of an investment or project by calculating the difference between the present value of cash inflows and outflows.

Average Rate of Return

A monetary measurement for assessing an investment's profit efficiency, determined by dividing the yearly average profit by the cost of initial investment.

Cash Payback

A capital budgeting method that estimates the time required for an investment to generate cash flows sufficient to recover its initial cost.