Questions 10—11 are based on the following:
Antinuclear activist: The closing of the nuclear power plant is a victory
for the antinuclear cause. It also represents a belated acknowledgment by the
power industry that they cannot operate such plants safely.
Nuclear power plant manager: It represents no such thing. The availability of
cheap power from nonnuclear sources, together with the cost of mandated safety
inspections and safety repairs, made continued operation uneconomic. Thus it was
not safety considerations but economic considerations that dictated the plant’s
closing. "Headhunters" are firms that, for a fee, undertake to recruit for
their clients personnel who are greatly needed yet hard to find. The clients, in
turn, require that they be offlimits to headhunters whose services they buy;
i.e., headhunters cannot raid one client’s staff on behalf of other
clients. Of the following, which would, if feasible, be the
best strategy for a company to pursue if that company wanted both to use
headhunters to fill a vacancy and, if successful in filling the vacancy, to
reduce the risk of losing the newly hired employee to a competitor
A. Find out which headhunters recruit workers of the sort being sought and
employ all those headhunters.
B. Find out which headhunter has the highest success rate in recruiting for
its clients and hire that firm.
C. Find out how much the company’s competitors currently pay staff of the
sort being sought and offer to pay prospective employees higher salaries.
D. Find out whether any of the company’s competitors are seeking to recruit
workers of the sort being sought and, if so, make sure not to hire the same
headhunters that they hire.
E. Find out which of the company’s competitors are on the client lists of
the headhunters who are being considered for the job.