Staffing Yields Assignment

For your summer internship, Amazon wants you to hire $100$ temporary employees to

supplement the fall holiday buying season at its warehouse in Phoenix, AZ$.$ Temporary

employees are not guaranteed an ongoing position. They are paid $$15$ per hour, which is high

for Phoenix, but they receive no benefits. In the past, the highest performers have been offered

ongoing positions. However, there are no promises that will be true this year.

You have no idea where to start and everyone else is too busy with their own jobs to walk you

through the process. You decide to look at data collected in the past in order to determine how

many applicants you will have to attract to hire $100$ capable temporary employees. Over the past

three years, the average yield percentages per step in the hiring process are as follows:

Percentage of applicants screened to interviews offered: $45\%$

Percentage of interview invitations to interviews accepted: $85\%$

Percentage of interviews resulting in job offers: $20\%$

Percentage of candidates given contingent job offers who took and passed the drug and

background screens: $80\%$

Percentage of job offers resulting in new hires: $71\%$

Calculating backwards, how many applicants will you have to attract in order to hire $100$ new

temporary employees? Show your work and the numbers at each step of the process.

Applicants needed:

Number of Interview invitations:

Interview invitations accepted:

Jobs offered:

Number of candidates who passed drug and background screens.

Total new hires: $100$