PHR (Professional in Human Resources) Practice Questions — All Questions

A job description is used to:

• a.Calculate depreciation
• b.Define a role's duties and requirements to guide hiring and evaluation✓
• c.Replace interviews
• d.Set the company's tax rate

Job descriptions define duties and qualifications, guiding recruiting and performance.

Selection criteria should be:

• a.Different for each candidate
• b.Job-related and applied consistently to all candidates✓
• c.Kept secret from hiring managers
• d.Based on personal friendship

Valid selection is job-related and applied consistently to avoid discrimination.

Adverse (disparate) impact occurs when a neutral practice:

• a.Improves diversity
• b.Disproportionately screens out a protected group✓
• c.Helps all groups equally
• d.Is clearly intentional bias only

Disparate impact is an unintentional but disproportionate effect on a protected group.

A structured interview improves hiring by:

• a.Asking all candidates the same job-related questions✓
• b.Focusing on unrelated traits
• c.Allowing random questions
• d.Removing all criteria

Structured interviews use consistent, job-related questions, improving fairness and validity.