Question+1

1) Jennifer and Pierre need to re-evaluate their approach to recruitment for LearningInMotion. Briefly describe how LearningInMotion can make use of each step of the recruitment process (as outlined in the textbook on pages 144 and145). Provide an explanation of how you think implementation of these steps at LearningInMotion will help the company solve their current recruiting problems and improve upon their overall recruiting effort.

Jennifer and Pierre need to re-evaluate their approach in recruiting by following each step of the recruitment process carefully. They need to:

1. Identify job openings 2. Specify job requirements 3. Select methods of recruitment 4. Generate pool of qualified applicants

1. Jennifer and Pierre were successful in identifying the job openings that they needed to be filled (2 salespeople, 1 web designer, 2 content management people, 1 office manager, and 1 web surfer). The only thing they didn’t attempt was to try hiring internally from within the company already, they might be able to find a suitable candidate from an existing employee and they already know their skills and performance. Also, they are able to get the word out from existing employees to help search to fill in these job openings at very little cost to the company. This will create more advertisement internally and externally which will create more attention, thus creating more responds to the job openings.

2. Continuing with the implementation of the recruitment process, Jennifer and Pierre need to specify the job requirements in more detail. From their first attempt of recruiting through the newspaper ads they received quite a handful of calls, but no feedback due to poor information layout. From this approach they should review the job description and job specification more carefully and update the job postings of each job. They should inform their exact specification that they are looking for in an employee for the position so they are able to grasp a handful of applicants that meet your specifications instead of obtaining a large amount of applicants that do not come close to what they are looking for.

3. Next Jennifer and Pierre need to evaluate whether they are going to recruit internally or externally first. Due to the company not having a huge budget for recruiting, LearningInMotion should try recruiting internally first so they are able to gather existing employees to help obtain respectable applicants and at a much lower cost than start recruiting externally off the bat. If they do not fill or find suitable applicants to fill the openings then they should start their external recruitment.

4. Finally, from all the applicants that were interviewed Jennifer and Pierre need to generate a pool of qualified applicants. They need to select the most qualified of the applicants to fill the openings, but also reflect upon the employment equity legislation and organization’s diversity goals.

If Jennifer and Pierre are able to follow the steps of the recruitment process that was laid out, they will be organized and able to obtain many applicants. LearningInMotion will obtain applicants that will meet the company’s specifications and save a lot of time finding information out about an applicant through an interview. Also, they are able to find ways of cutting costs in the recruitment process if necessary to meet company budget. **************           ***************************************************************************************************************************** Jeffrey: Jennifer and Pierre need to re-evaluate their approach to recruitment for Learning In Motion. They have to follow a certain recruitment process that will aid them in finding the much needed employees that they have been searching for.

1. Identify job openings 2. Specify job requirements 3. Select methods of recruitment 4. Generate pool of qualified applicants

1. Since there are positions that need to be filled within Jennifer and Pierre’s company, they need to communicate to eligible employees that they are interesting in hiring new help. Jennifer and Pierre have already put an ad in the newspaper for two consecutive weekends with very little success. Since this method is not working out for them, they should try something new. I believe that they would have much more success if they got in contact with an employment agency and communicated to them what positions need filling and what type of employee they are looking for. This would be a diverse strategy.

2. After the first weekend that they published an ad in the newspaper, Jennifer and Pierre only received a limited amount of phone calls most of which they were not interested in or the callers were not interested. They decided to change the descriptions in the second weekend but they still had very little success. I believe that Jennifer and Pierre should go further into detail with their job specification and description because it will attract possible candidate that are better informed and more serious about the job.

3. It seems that Jennifer and Pierre took a narrow route when it came to using a method of recruitment by only looking for suitable employees externally. After their brief experience with the newspaper ad, I believe that Jennifer and Pierre should have focused more on looking for potential candidates internally. This would have not only been easier but much more cost effective.

4. Once Jennifer and Pierre are successful at attaining a pool of qualified applicants, they should go through the candidates and select the ones that are best suited for the companies needs whatever they maybe be.