This exercise will begin the process of hiring an HR Generalist, who will help you with the rest of the hiring Ivory Melodies will need to do this year (i.e., the hires you calculated in the previous exercise). The first step in hiring for any vacancy is assessing the labor market (e.g., where are you likely to find qualified applicants for your job?). The second step is deciding how you will entice qualified people to apply for your job. Assess the Labor Market. A labor market assessment will help you determine the geographic area you will need to cover in your recruiting efforts for this job. To begin with, how many HR Generalists are there locally? Regionally? Nationally? What is the geographic area from which you think it is appropriate to recruit for this position (e.g., Duluth, regionally, nationally)? If you believe you need to recruit from an area larger than Duluth, please be specific about the geographic territory that you think should be included in this recruiting effort and identify how many qualified HR Generalists are in this larger territory. Also, how much do you think you will need to pay someone to do this job? (This is not a necessary piece of information for the recruiting efforts, but will be necessary later in the hiring process and will have an impact on company budgets going forward, so knowing this ahead of time is crucial.) Use government labor statistics to do this assessment. Create a table that summarizes data about the supply of qualified labor for the HR Generalist job. (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics is a good source for this information.)