Assignment: Talent Rules
Assignment: Talent Rules
Assignment: Talent Rules
R ecruiting outstanding employees for your organization is critical to its future. As Tom Peter’s writes, today “Talent rules,” so you must be obsessed with attract- ing and retaining new talent.1 Successful recruiting to identify this talent determines the difference between success and failure of every organization. This task is never easy, quick, or inexpensive. Recruiting is an elaborate courtship process that entails multiple contacts between each recruit and members of your staff and may be fraught with interpersonal problems between complex human beings, each susceptible to bias and distortion. In spite of its problems, however, the interview will remain an essential component of the selection process because recruiters want to observe behaviors and probe into skills, attitudes, and abilities that reveal whether an applicant is an ideal fit for this position with this organization.2
A common, mistaken belief is that Human Resources (HR) personnel recruit new employees for organizations. In truth, HR personnel play minor roles in the recruit- ing process because it is far too important and complex to assign to a single element of any organization. You may have already taken part in recruiting activities while in college, and you definitely will after you graduate. Many of our students have returned to campus within a year of graduation to aid in recruiting talent for their organizations. They can identify readily with their alma mater and its students.
The objectives of this chapter are to introduce you to the fundamental principles of successful employee recruiting. These include locating high-quality applicants, pre- paring for the recruiting process, obtaining and reviewing information on applicants, structuring interviews, conducting interviews, and evaluating interviews. Learning and applying these principles will make you a valuable asset to your organization while enhancing the quality of your future colleagues.
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Where to Find Talented Applicants
When commencing your search for new talent, consider your social and professional contacts, check your file of persons who have come to your attention in the field through its meetings and publications, visit college career centers, and attend fairs wherever they occur. A growing number of organizations are hiring from their internship programs because they have had extensive opportunity to observe and assess interns while they are on the job with opportunities to exhibit needed talents.
Recruiting is expensive and complex.
The Recruiting Interview
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When you take part in career or job fairs, be sure you set up attractive booths exhibiting promotional materials such as brochures, book bags, and pens to get your name and positions before a large number of potential employees. Select staff with excellent interpersonal skills who enjoy meeting young people and are trained to conduct on-the-spot interviews. Have application forms and sign-up sheets readily at hand, but be honest if you are not currently hiring at the moment. Make follow-up contacts with attendees who appear to be good fits for your organization.
Your organization might decide to hire a staffing firm (sometimes called placement agencies, employment agencies, or head hunters) to locate quality applicants and perhaps to conduct initial screening interviews. Select such firms carefully to determine their suc- cess rates and suitability for your organization and the position(s) you wish to fill. The American Staffing Association offers important guidelines for making the best choice, including shopping around, type of staffing help you need, impressions of your initial interactions with the firm, how the staffing firm selects its employees (screening, testing, and training), and how well the firm understands your organization and your needs.3
Kiosks designed to attract applicants are now common sights in retail stores. This enables them to establish and update their applicant databases whenever stores are open, some 24 hours a day, and to sort through applications to locate qualified appli- cants. If kiosks are inappropriate for your organization, there are numerous resume databases that provide the same services. Some of these are fee-based and some are free. Select the one that is most suitable for your organization and career field.
There are hundreds of Internet and electronic sources available to locate quality applicants. These include Web sites of colleges and universities, religious organiza- tions, senior citizen clubs, political parties, and special interest groups. Here are a few key sources:
• CareerBuilder.com • Kennedy’s The Directory of Executive and Professional Recruiters • Monster Jobs • Monster.com • Wall Street Journal Careers
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
- The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
- Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
- Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
- One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
- I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
- Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
- In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
- Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
- Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
- Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
- Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
- I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
- I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
- As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
- It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
- For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
- Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
- Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
- Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
- The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
- Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
- If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
- I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
- As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
- Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
- Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
- Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.