CASE STUDY RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION

AT GOOGLE It provides employees with excellent pay and a series of perks that are unheard of Google is consistently ranked by Fortune magazine as one of the best places to work at most corporations . Some of these perks are flex hours ; bring your dog to work , casual dress ; on - site free massage and yoga ; free snacks , drinks , and meals ; and a child - care centre among many others . No wonder that Google receives close to 3 million job applications a year . To find the best talent , Google uses care fully selected strategies , methods , and techniques . Google recruits at college and university campuses and through the Careers section of its website . Google is very selective , hiring only about 7000 of the 3 million applicants . Google uses different methods to select people for different jobs , but there are some common elements : preliminary screening , employment tests , interviews , and background checks . Google is looking for intelligence , creativity , leadership , and fit with the Google culture , as well as the role the person will play as part of Google . Hiring decisions are not made by managers but having a committee composed of peers make the decision , which is much like the process a university uses in hiring , pro moting , and granting tenure to faculty , rather than hierarchical structures used in industry . One can say that in many ways Google operates in the knowledge industry much like a university.

QUESTIONS

1. Is Google's elaborate recruitment and selection system justified? What are appropriate criteria for assessing its effectiveness? 2.Google receives over 3 000 000 applications for 7000 positions . As an HR Personnel which selection method would apply here and why?

3. Provide examples of how technology and legal aspects should be considered to improve the recruitment and selection used by Google .

Source : Schmidt , E. and Rosenberg , J. 2014. " How Google Works . " New York , NY : Grand Central Publishing .