Offering Permanent Positions to Only Top-Performing Applicants Is a Strategy

question 70

Multiple Choice

Offering permanent positions to only top-performing applicants is a strategy that can backfire because

• A) competing companies could offer these same applicants positions.
• B) these applicants, once hired, might not stay.
• C) it may be discriminatory.
• D) All of these

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