ECRE Knowledge Assessment 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which recruitment metric measures the percentage of candidates who accept a job offer compared to the total number of offers extended?
- Offer acceptance rate (Correct answer)
- Time-to-fill
- Candidate conversion rate
- Yield ratio
Correct answer: Offer acceptance rate
Offer acceptance rate tracks how many extended offers are accepted, reflecting employer brand strength and compensation competitiveness.
Question 2: In behavioral interviewing, the STAR method stands for Situation, Task, Action, and:
- Achievement
- Result (Correct answer)
- Resolution
- Rationale
Correct answer: Result
STAR stands for Situation, Task, Action, Result — a structured framework for candidates to present competency-based answers.
Question 3: A recruiter discovers that a hiring manager consistently avoids interviewing candidates from a certain university. This is best addressed by:
- Refusing to source from that university
- Documenting the bias and escalating to HR leadership (Correct answer)
- Informing only the candidate
- Removing university fields from resumes before submission
Correct answer: Documenting the bias and escalating to HR leadership
Documenting the pattern and escalating to HR leadership addresses institutional bias through proper channels and creates a record for corrective action.
Question 4: Which sourcing strategy involves building relationships with passive candidates before a specific opening exists?
- Reactive recruiting
- Pipeline recruiting (Correct answer)
- Contingency recruiting
- Retained search
Correct answer: Pipeline recruiting
Pipeline recruiting proactively builds talent pools so that when roles open, qualified candidates are already engaged and pre-qualified.
Question 5: Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an employer must provide reasonable accommodation unless it causes:
- Any additional cost
- Undue hardship (Correct answer)
- A change in job title
- Disruption to team dynamics
Correct answer: Undue hardship
The ADA requires reasonable accommodation unless doing so would create undue hardship, defined as significant difficulty or expense relative to the employer's resources.
Question 6: Cost-per-hire is calculated by dividing total recruiting costs by:
- Number of applicants
- Number of interviews conducted
- Number of hires made (Correct answer)
- Number of open positions
Correct answer: Number of hires made
Cost-per-hire = total recruiting costs ÷ number of hires, capturing the average investment required to bring each new employee on board.
Question 7: Which type of employment agency operates on a contingency basis, meaning they are paid only when a candidate they submit is hired?
- Retained search firm
- Staffing agency on retainer
- Contingency recruiting firm (Correct answer)
- Executive search firm
Correct answer: Contingency recruiting firm
Contingency recruiting firms earn their fee only upon a successful hire, as opposed to retained firms that receive payment in stages regardless of outcome.
ECRE Knowledge Assessment 2
Which recruitment metric measures the percentage of candidates who accept a job offer compared to the total number of offers extended?