The board of directors of a local organization has asked you, as an HR specialis

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The board of directors of a local organization has asked you, as an HR specialist, to develop a comprehensive recruitment plan for a key position at that organization.

A. Identify Vacant Position. Identify a particular key position at a specific organization. Where does the position fit within the organizational chart? What is the reason for this position's vacancy (e.g., new position, vacated position, growth)?

B. Environmental Factors. What environmental factors - internal and external - could impact the recruitment, selection, and retention of this position? How can you set your organization apart from others in the marketplace, thus attracting the best candidates? How will you build a pool of quality candidates?

C. Targeted Candidates. What type(s) of candidates are you targeting and why?

Explanation / Answer

A. Suppose, the key position identified for recruitment is Marketing Manager. Marketing manager is a major person responsible for handing the overall marketing activities of the company. This position comes under the major heads of the organizations structure i.e. Finance, Marketing, Han resources and Operations. The last marketing manager has left the company and without a manager the team is diverted and confused. Therefore, to hire a marketing manager is very important and required urgently.

B. Internal factors like internal hiring and competition and externa factors like competition in the market, number of applications, Talent pool, Outsourcing, etc. also impacts hiring and selection process. To keep our organization apart from marketplace, we can attract candidates through their LinkedIn profiles and only shortlist candidate son their profiles basis of experience and qualifications. It will reduce the time and cost in recruitment process. The polled candidate sill be then interviewed personally.

C. Types of people targeted are those who have good experience and knowledge in marketing file and who have already worked with good company’s at managerial level and have minimum experience of 4-5 years at managerial level.

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