Discussion Forum Assignment

Purpose: Create a solution for a poor recruitment and selection process

This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:

CLR4 -- Write out and apply the employee recruitment and selection processes in business contexts

CLR5 -- Define employee performance management and evaluation plans

CLR10 -- Outline the impact and use of information technology within human resources

Objective of this Assignment: To demonstrate knowledge and understanding of tools, approaches and techniques that may be applied in an organizational setting to effectively and fairly recruit and select the employee team that will work at the organization.

For this assignment, read the following scenario:

You work as the manager of talent acquisition and development. A major position within your company has become available as a result of a retirement. Your first reaction is to post the position internally, but the department manager has indicated that they have a great external candidate in mind that they would like to see considered for the job.

The position is posted both internally and externally, and resumes begin to come in. During the scoring and review process, two internal candidates and the department managers suggested external candidate get interviews. The external candidate interviews and presents better than the internal candidates and is offered the job, which they accept. It is announced and almost immediately the chief steward of the union asks you how you could support the hiring of a relative of the department manager that they will report to. Embarrassed, you thank the steward for their feedback and proceed to have a discussion with the department manager about anti-nepotism policies and request to know why the family connection was not disclosed.

For discussion:

Outline what your hiring process would look like to prevent this type of scenario from happening again. Outline the tools you might build (For instance: additional reference checks, conflict of interest disclosures and policy review). Also, suggest a solution that outlines what you will do to remedy this immediate situation since it is company policy that immediate relatives not to report to one another.