CASE Recruiting and Selecting High-Level Managers through the Internet Michael J

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CASE Recruiting and Selecting High-Level Managers through the Internet Michael Jackson is the president and CEO of a small hotel corporation (Jackson Hotels, Inc) which caters to 2,144 staff members Scottsdale, AZ Aspen, CO; Orlando, FL Santa Fe, NM, Sea Island, GA; and Charleston, SC Recently, the company underwent a new locations and tripling its The latest generation of Web tools indludes online job fairs io which compapies cas All approaches to online recruitment and selection seem to be cost effectiv relative to n The three main approaches to Internet recruiting are job boards (ke the Web sites neet candidates In a virtual environment and can chat with them online. alternatives above), prodessional/career Web sites, which focus on partioular occupations and oners in resort communities. The compamy currently employs at its corporate headquarters in Palm Springs, CA and its other hotels in process. The plan en visio adding ten over the next five years. The human resoarce professions, and employer Web sites. is to recruit experienced and hi recrult managers for new hotels, and manage existing and expansion hotels in a variety of managerial roles Gomez has asked your professor of Human Resources Management (Dr. Martin Canno) to help ber formulate for Jackson. Dr. Cannon has asked your class to meet in small groups of two to four students each to address ber questions and report to the class These questions are outlined below Up to the present, Jackson has relled on his in the hotel Indastry to recommend candidates for these positions. Some have been hired and some have not, and many of those hired have not performed as well as Jackson had hoped and expected. During an informal NS discussion with Carol Cross, one of his hotel m 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Ieternet recrultment and selection for 2. Which of the above three approaches to online recruiting and selection (if any) makes the . What prescreening burdles would you impose in your Internet recruitment in ordet to 4. Based on your knowledge of other companies' Web sites, what information should Cross suggested most of the larger hotel chains now recruit their managers and other p through the Internet. She suggested that Internet recrultment might enhance both the quantity and quality of the but expanding company le Jackson Hotels? How would you minimize the ackson then asked his vice president of human online recruiting and make recommendations to him. She to research most sense in this case and why? was one c pre-qualify a small mumber of truly qualifiled applicantst Why among small companies like his own a Almost all large companies and many small companies now provide online Jackson Hotels provide to job applicants and what steps should follow Internet recruit- 8ment to identify the most qualified applicants? and some only accept online applications. Almost all applicants for professional and managerial positions now use Another trend is the use of online prescreening tools to separate the qualified applicants from the unqualified the Internet. a Some hotel chains aste now tapping into skled foreign iabor fhrough the n There are more than 2,500 Web sites that contain job postings and among the prominent generic Web sites are http://www.monster.com

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The hurdles I would put for pre-screening a small number of qualified candidates would be:

1) The resume would be accompanied with cover letter which shows the sensitised approach of the candidate towards job.

2) The resume should match with 80 % of the skill set keywords desired for the job profile.

3) The minimum qualifications should match with the job criteria.

4) The age of the applicant should be in the desired range

5) The minimum numbers of experience of similar nature should match with the desired job profile.

6) The salary expectation should match with the range of salary decided for the job profile.

7) If a nature of job requirement is for particular gender only , then filter for gender would also be fixed.

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