Being employed as a casual barista in a local caf with a flourishing catering business called 'Brown's
Question:
Being employed as a casual barista in a local café with a flourishing catering business called 'Brown's Café', where you are supervised by the café owner, Jessica Williams. The company employs 20 staff, and the owner has decided to hire, for the first time, a Catering Manager to run the growing catering arm of the company. This appointee must possess the expertise to manage and oversee the catering of private and corporate functions of up to 500 people. Jessica (your supervisor) prints the following job advertisement on an A4 sheet of paper and sticks it to the front window of the Café:
The advertisement has been up for two weeks, and while a few questions have been received, no one has yet applied.
In the form of an email to the supervisor, Jessica Williams:
How the business could recruit and advertise for the Catering Manager's position to tap into a source a pool of suitable candidates. This element of the email should include the following:
Where could there be suitable pools of candidates and the channels/mediums that could be used for reaching these pools of candidates (print, online, radio - other)?
Create and attach a job advertisement for the Catering Manager's vacancy, justifying in your email why the proposed advertising is more likely to attract suitable applicants by explaining the features incorporated into its design, supported by the 'theory'. Apart from the few details provided in the scenario, create any of the remaining information on the business and the roles and requirements of a Catering Manager to incorporate into the advertisement.
Expert Answer:
Subject Recruitment Strategy for the Catering Manager Position Dear Jessica I hope this email finds you well I wanted to discuss the recruitment strategy for the Catering Manager position at Browns Ca... View the full answer
