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In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job openings, human resource departments may develop employee retention myopia, discounting the effect of their shortsightedness on everything from daily product sales to effective succession planning. In addition, despite conflicting evidence about whether demographic trends related to baby boomer retirements may or may not constitute a code red, every human resource department does face a potential threat from that phenomenon, and should continue to focus sharply on the retention of its most talented and productive employees. While some issues in employee retention, such as defined expectations and clear supervision, now seem codified, the landscape appears to shift more elusively and continuously in the area of benefits. As noted in the influential tenth annual MetLife study of benefits, employee level of engagement in the issue of benefits has burgeoned. Ten years ago, according to the study, employees were far less likely to consider, let alone calculate, the true value of benefits when assessing an employment offer. Currently, they are more likely to appreciate what their employer provides, even if they personally have to incur some portion of the cost of those benefits.

Finally, the keen interest in benefits and the attribution of a quantifiable value to them is now common among younger workers as well as older ones. The study also suggests that while wage and salary issues continue to rate as the pre-eminent factor in employee loyalty, medical and retirement benefits are a close second and third and rank above the opportunity for advancement. More stunningly or perhaps soberingly—employees rate nonmedical benefits such as vision, life, and disability insurances on a par with the importance of opportunity for advancement. Study data also suggest the increasing value of voluntary benefits in achieving human capital goals. Increasingly, personalized benefits, geared to the needs of particular age groups, have come to the fore as a factor in employee satisfaction and retention. Particularly in those companies where a serious talent or skills shortage prevails, and in those positions where long-term, costly training is needed, personalized benefits may tip the human capital balance.

1. In the passage, the author’s chief concern is to

(A) suggest that benefits may be more important than ever in employee retention.
(B) analyze the influential tenth annual MetLife study of benefits.
(C) suggest the often overlooked role of personalized benefits in employee retention.
(D) stress the need for continuity of benefits in periods of high unemployment.
(E) urge employers to continue to offer the same benefits as always.


2. It can be inferred that the author

(A) is an expert in employee benefits.
(B) may be relying too heavily on a single source.
(C) has wide ranging knowledge of the benefits field.
(D) is most likely employed by a benefits company.
(E) believes baby boomer retirements are not a problem.


3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a reason for focusing on benefits as a method of employee retention?

(A) the importance of employee retention to effective succession planning
(B) the costs of training new employees
(C) the continuous change in what employees want and value in terms of benefits
(D) predominance of benefits in the hiring discussion
(E) a new desire among employees for personalized benefits


4. With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

(A) Younger workers paid less attention to benefits in the past.
(B) The amount of employee interest in benefits has wavered in recent years.
(C) Most employees are not willing to take on additional copays for most benefits.
(D) Having life and disability insurance is less important than the opportunity for advancement.
(E) Voluntary benefits must be personalized to the ages and life stages of employees.

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1. In the passage, the author’s chief concern is to

(A) suggest that benefits may be more important than ever in employee retention.----True, The author does emphasizes this in the whole passage-Correct
(B) analyze the influential tenth annual MetLife study of benefits.----This is just a part and not the primary concern--OUT
(C) suggest the often overlooked role of personalized benefits in employee retention.----Nothing in the passage suggests overlooked role--OUT
(D) stress the need for continuity of benefits in periods of high unemployment.---OUT
(E) urge employers to continue to offer the same benefits as always.---OUT--The author is not urging rather he is suggesting

IMO A


2. It can be inferred that the author

(A) is an expert in employee benefits.---Just because the author discusses benefit does not directly imply he is and expert--OUT
(B) may be relying too heavily on a single source.---Possibly True, because the author is in support of one view and is illustrating facts to support the views-HOLD
(C) has wide ranging knowledge of the benefits field.---Same as A-OUT
(D) is most likely employed by a benefits company.---Nothing suggests this--OUT
(E) believes baby boomer retirements are not a problem.---It may or may not be a problem this is what the author suggests---OUT

IMO B


3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a reason for focusing on benefits as a method of employee retention?

(A) the importance of employee retention to effective succession planning--Mentioned in first para in the last few lines
(B) the costs of training new employees--Mentioned
(C) the continuous change in what employees want and value in terms of benefits--Mentioned
(D) predominance of benefits in the hiring discussion---Not Mentioned
(E) a new desire among employees for personalized benefits---Mentioned

IMO D


I got the 4th one wrong just because I did not read the correct option carefully:(
4. With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

(A) Younger workers paid less attention to benefits in the past.----Yes, the author does suggest that the youg employees now pay attention to the benefits, this could imply that they did not pay attention in the past.--Correct
(B) The amount of employee interest in benefits has wavered in recent years.---OUT
(C) Most employees are not willing to take on additional copays for most benefits.--OUT
(D) Having life and disability insurance is less important than the opportunity for advancement.---Opposite--OUT
(E) Voluntary benefits must be personalized to the ages and life stages of employees.-OUT

IMO A

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Re: In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 02:24
3/4 correct 9 min, is it good enough ?

please explain why option A and not B for question 4?
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Re: In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 02:28
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I have provided a detailed answer above. You can refer that. It it is still not clear maybe you can expain why is it B and not A for you?
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4. With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

(A) Younger workers paid less attention to benefits in the past.----Yes, the author does suggest that the youg employees now pay attention to the benefits, this could imply that they did not pay attention in the past.--Correct
(B) The amount of employee interest in benefits has wavered in recent years.---OUT
(C) Most employees are not willing to take on additional copays for most benefits.--OUT
(D) Having life and disability insurance is less important than the opportunity for advancement.---Opposite--OUT
(E) Voluntary benefits must be personalized to the ages and life stages of employees.-OUT

IMO A



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Hi There!

I have provided a detailed answer above. You can refer that. It it is still not clear maybe you can expain why is it B and not A for you?
Ks1859 wrote:
4. With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

(A) Younger workers paid less attention to benefits in the past.----Yes, the author does suggest that the youg employees now pay attention to the benefits, this could imply that they did not pay attention in the past.--Correct
(B) The amount of employee interest in benefits has wavered in recent years.---OUT
(C) Most employees are not willing to take on additional copays for most benefits.--OUT
(D) Having life and disability insurance is less important than the opportunity for advancement.---Opposite--OUT
(E) Voluntary benefits must be personalized to the ages and life stages of employees.-OUT

IMO A


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you are right, i fell for trap. passage never mention about option b.
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Re: In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 21:25
Hi , I found the first 2 sentences extremely confusing especially with the terms like myopia etc. which is used to describe how HRD perceive the employee retention case. I tried to understand the facts mentioned in the first 2 sentences, can anyone pls correct me if i am wrong?

1st sentence - When there are more qualified candidates than jobs , the HRD may focus on employee retention than daily product sales to effective succession planning
2nd sentence - Baby boomer retirements may not be as important to HRD as retaining its most talents and productive employees
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Hi , I found the first 2 sentences extremely confusing especially with the terms like myopia etc. which is used to describe how HRD perceive the employee retention case. I tried to understand the facts mentioned in the first 2 sentences, can anyone pls correct me if i am wrong?

1st sentence - When there are more qualified candidates than jobs , the HRD may focus on employee retention than daily product sales to effective succession planning
2nd sentence - Baby boomer retirements may not be as important to HRD as retaining its most talents and productive employees


Hi aishumurali

Your interpretation of the two sentence is correct. To delineate it.

In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job openings, human resource departments may develop employee retention myopia, discounting {the effect of their shortsightedness}-myopia on everything from daily product sales to effective succession planning(These are just some other things HRD should have focused but they discounted it with employee retention). In addition(Indicates that the author is enforcing the same thing as he did in the previous sentence), despite conflicting evidence about whether demographic trends related to baby boomer retirements may or may not constitute a code red, every human resource department does face a potential threat from that phenomenon, and should continue to focus sharply on the retention of its most talented and productive employees.


So, to summarize- ^Qualified candidates than job openings--HRD focuses on Employee retention(short sightedness) than focusing on other succession plans. Although there are contrary evidence, the author considers, and enforces that the HRD should continue to focus on retention of the prod & talented employees.

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Hi Ks1859 i have been working on passages since a long time but cannot see an increase in accuracy . I have been solving more than 3 passages a day , but i either end up getting overwhelmed with the infotmation in the passage and go on to make lot of silly mistakes . How can this be improved and avoided?
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Hi Ks1859 i have been working on passages since a long time but cannot see an increase in accuracy . I have been solving more than 3 passages a day , but i either end up getting overwhelmed with the infotmation in the passage and go on to make lot of silly mistakes . How can this be improved and avoided?



Hey There!

Okay to list some articles you can refer to- https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/how-to-sc ... 23624.html

And I found this somewhere-
Attachment:
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https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/how-to-st ... .html#p221

Few things that I follow:
a. Go slow on rcs, especially in the start of each paragraph and at the end but, read everything.
b. Following one helps you to solve the questions quickly and save time to solve.
c. Read difficult articles, this will accustom your brain to read convulted rcs as reading another article. You can find them here- https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/gre-daily ... 23310.html
d. IT does not matter how many rcs you solve, knowing what silly mistakes did you make is crucial. Like in quants if we use a wrong formula we note it somewhere not forget it the next time. Similarly, do it for rc. For eg. For inference question, try to avoid option should with extreme words until and unless you see that the author is supporting it.
e. Know the question types: Main idea, primary purpose, central idea, inference, assumption, detail are a few of the types. When you read a question it takes hardly a second to distinguish. If it is a detailed question go back to the passage trace the line and answer. You can find more here-https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/gre-verbal-section-question-type-breakdown-30.html#p36
f. Summarize every passage irrespective of whether you see a main idea or a role question.
g. Do not get stuck on a question which you are unsure about- If you are not very sure between some option choice are not able to find your way out select any option choice move forward and save time this might help you to save time for those questions which you can surely answer.

These are the things that I follow. Although I am not a professional but these are the common points I found. You can create a your own strategy. One shoe doesn't fit all so try writing your mistakes in notes know its best use here- https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/feature-o ... 23768.html

Let me know if I can help you further

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Re: In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 22:30
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Hi Ks1859 i have been working on passages since a long time but cannot see an increase in accuracy . I have been solving more than 3 passages a day , but i either end up getting overwhelmed with the infotmation in the passage and go on to make lot of silly mistakes . How can this be improved and avoided?


hi there, i am not expert but i can relate your problem because just couple of weeks ago i was in same situation.
i followed some method it might help you,
1. try to solve passage with easy difficulty level and medium size passage, once you get comfortable increase difficulty level but same passage size.
2. Just reflect upon the method which use for solving rc passage. Method used in rc passage have significant effect and try to stick with one method which is most comfortable to you.
3.This might be harsh but it will take time and hard work to reach the goal.
4. Try to solve gmat critical reasoning question it will help with your rc question, it help me alot in increasing rc accuracy.
try to solve many example as much as possible to get desire result. Good Luck.
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Hi void can you help me with some gmat passages , which i can refer and solve?
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Hi void can you help me with some gmat passages , which i can refer and solve?

join gmat prep club. that site will provide you abundant number of practice passage. 3 passage a day won't help you, if your accuracy is about 55%. You will need to solve more passage. Join gmatprepclub, then rc by difficult level sub-600 and after getting comfortable move to next difficulty level 600-700 , this section will take time3 lots of time is required to get comfortable and then you can shoot for 700+ difficulty level. The problem with 700+ difficulty level not everyone can be comfortable in this section. You have to spend more time on it than what you have assigned.
Sometime even after practice people stuck in 600-700 difficulty level. I don't know you suffer from switching aback to gre passage from gmat passage it take some time to get comfortable in gre passage. And gre passage language bit on difficult compared to gmat rc.
For reading techniques you can use gregmatt youtube channel. Currently i am using his techniques and it help me to boost my accuracy.
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Although I am not an expert and Carcass will surely agree to :D , let me give you my part of advice ;)

1) Try solving 4-5 passages a day. But make sure that you spend around 20mins on analysis after solving for why you got wrong and why you got one correct. BOTH

2) Solve passages from Here I would suggest solving the RCs from this forum. You will get an idea of how the questions are asked in the actual GRE. OG BigBook RCs are awesome.

And follow Ks1859 's advice. Feel free to ask any doubts.

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Hi Ks1859 i have been working on passages since a long time but cannot see an increase in accuracy . I have been solving more than 3 passages a day , but i either end up getting overwhelmed with the infotmation in the passage and go on to make lot of silly mistakes . How can this be improved and avoided?
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Hey,

Although I am not an expert and Carcass will surely agree to :D , let me give you my part of advice ;)

1) Try solving 4-5 passages a day. But make sure that you spend around 20mins on analysis after solving for why you got wrong and why you got one correct. BOTH

2) Solve passages from Here I would suggest solving the RCs from this forum. You will get an idea of how the questions are asked in the actual GRE. OG BigBook RCs are awesome.

And follow Ks1859 's advice. Feel free to ask any doubts.

Regards,
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Hi Ks1859 i have been working on passages since a long time but cannot see an increase in accuracy . I have been solving more than 3 passages a day , but i either end up getting overwhelmed with the infotmation in the passage and go on to make lot of silly mistakes . How can this be improved and avoided?


if you are a lead moderator ...you are surely expert in something :D :lol: :cool:
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this is something to follow


How to score BETTER on the GRE Reading Passages - The challenge


https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/how-to-sc ... 23624.html
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void you mean the greg mat youtube channel right?
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Is there also a way to tackle main purpose of the passage questions?
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Is there also a way to tackle main purpose of the passage questions?


Look here https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/how-to-sc ... 23624.html

the downloaded file has inside a file to tackle specifically the main idea plus others
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