Evaluating the Success of Business: Effective Recruitment Strategies

The hiring process involves evaluating the candidate's eagerness to work, as well as considering industry standards and benefits for compensation. A strong resume with a clear cover letter is crucial in highlighting relevant education and experiences. The employer should also look for core competencies such as integrity, loyalty, and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, an effective induction program is essential for new employees to adjust to the workplace culture, understand company policies, and feel supported. This not only improves employee retention but also saves time and money in the long run.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Individual Activity 1...................................................................................................... 3
Answer 1.1................................................................................................................ 3
Answer 1.2................................................................................................................ 4
Answer 1.3................................................................................................................ 4
Answer 2.1 and 2.2................................................................................................... 5
Individual Activity 2...................................................................................................... 6
Answer4.1................................................................................................................. 6
Answer 4.2................................................................................................................ 7
Bibliography................................................................................................................. 8
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INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY 1
ANSWER 1.1
Benefits of the diverse workforce:
To achieve the workforce diversity as it has the aim for employing the workers under
different backgrounds for providing the tangible as well as the intangible benefits for
the organization. Below are the benefits as achieved from the workforce diversity:
1. Increase in Productivity:
Thus the workforce diversity would not bring about the increment in
productivity along with the competitive advantages. Employers will offer more
solutions for customers as the new ideas as well as the processes as they
brought into the organization. Thus the workplace diversity has increased the
employee morale and thus causes the desired work more effectively as well as
efficiently. Thus the Diversity of the leadership will follow the firm as it will
allow the managers for bringing the new skill as well as the methods in order
to achieve the unity for the teams.
2. Increase in Creativity:
It is thus observed that with the advent of the workforce diversity the
creativity will increase as the company has the heterogonous groups in order
to have the cross-fertilizing for the workforce diversity. In the case of Ethno
connect, the consulting company has the specialization for the workforce
diversity and those employees from different backgrounds t brought the
variety of the solutions for achieving the common goal. The more diverse goals
are suggested, more the chances for finding the workable answer as needed to
improve accordingly.
3. Positive Reputation:
The job seekers have drawn the companies with the diverse workforces as it
has the evidence so that the companies cannot practice the employment
discrimination. The companies are often known as the attitude of the openness
as well as the inclusion in order to have the flexible along with adaptable in
order to have the change. As per Rob McInness of Diversity World, there is the
top talent which is no longer found to represent by the homogeneous group,
but there are the other people who belong to different backgrounds and the
life experiences (Jhonson, 2018).
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ANSWER 1.2
Factors affected the approach of the organization are as follows:
Benefits: The benefits packages have added the value to the employee, as the
flexibility has been offered within the package for reflecting the age, and the needs
of the family along with the lifestyle of the candidate as it will attract the wider range
for the applicants and thus help to retain the existing employees.
Training and Development: It has attracted a number of candidates who are allowed
to look for expanding that it will attract the wider range for the applicants and as it
will help in retaining the existing employees.
Economic environment: When there is the downturn in the economy as there i.e. a
large amount of the unemployed of the company that will have more than the normal
candidates for choosing from as well as the possibility for taking the employees at
the higher level. Also, once the economy will take the upturn as the job market will
improve for the employees may move as unless the company that will provide the
competitive salary or benefits package as well as the prospects of development.
Location of workplace: It is another important factor as if the company is situated in
the location where no regular public transport will be there, it will attract few
candidates only and most of the employees want an easy and regular transport
system within their workforce place (Phdessay, 2018).
ANSWER 1.3
The different recruitment channels which have the example with internal as well as
the external advertisement, headhunters, electronic recruitment, agencies, internet
sites etc. (George, 2017)
The selection process consists of traditional and modern approaches, screening
applications, selection policies, developing the long as well as the competency-based
approaches, interviews as face to face and telephone as well as the individual or
panel ( Human Resources, 2018).
ANSWER 2.1 AND 2.2
Recruitment Methods:
1. Preparing for the recruitment:
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For the preparation for the recruitment as it means to research for really as
required for the success of business. There are many employees who fall
within the trap at the time of hiring process and the employer judge how much
the candidate eager for work. Later it will realize that there is the low
productivity and thus the turnover costs for the organization as there is more
money than the employee can make.
It has been considered the industry standards as the compensation as well as
the benefits. Thus the small business owner would not offer the effective
competitive package for the prospect. The small business owner would provide
the flexibility for the work schedule as per the effort for the attraction of the
top talent as it will fit the traditional nine-to-five workday when they can
undergo the dental plan.
2. The review of resumes:
To develop the keen eye of talent for organization, the combination of the
education as well as the experiences that the manager wants to see, is the
resumes. There should be the strong cover letter as explained the gap for
experiencing as per the strong desire to be learned. The activities should be
considered as the volunteer work.
3. Looking for core competencies:
This process has referred that the dominant character qualities. A number of
companies as used for core competencies which have the rate related to the
needs of the company and their individual job description. Thus the core
competencies for general in nature, the integrity along with the loyalty are
significant for everyone to work with the relevant group.
It is needed to use the open-ended questions as well as the role-playing
methodologies for recruiting the level of competence. Like in a recruitment if it is
needed to explain the instance it is needed to deal with so as to upset the
customer in such a way so that it is needed to imagine the hypothetical scenario
from out coming to the situation (Leonard, 2018).
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY 2
ANSWER4.1
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Within own organization, it is needed to hire the best candidate for the benefit of the
organization. But to start with the team member it is essential to provide them with
the structured and effective induction program in order to address them in right way.
As per the criteria of the well-thought induction program, it should be the most
effective as well as the efficient way of the company policies along with the
legislation for the benefit of the company itself. Below are some reasons for which
the induction programs are essential:
1. Compliance: It is needed to educate the employees about the company
policies with safety, harassment along with the bullying within the critical
policies. In turn it will help in protecting the business to prevent the incidents
and they can have better-defending policy to claim.
2. Workplace Culture: Those new employees should be aligned as well as
assimilated with the workplace culture. They should understand the values as
well as the behaviour which drive the values (Workwise Advisory, 2014).
3. Retention: There are the induction programs which help the employees for
adjusting to the new role as they make the smoother transition under the
business and thereby will assimilate with the organization culture. Thus there
would be the ultimate help for retention of employees in order to feel
supported.
4. Company reputation: Thus the inductions will help in establishing the
professional impression for the business and this also includes the way of
delivering the customer service.
5. Saves Times and Money: It will save the business time as well as the money
within the long term and they should be well developed under the induction
program so that it can be easily replicated each new employee. There should
be a great system as available for the purpose of automation. This extra
information will add new information as necessary.
6. Productivity: It is necessary to learn the employee in the right way in order to
do things from the beginning in spite of showing the shortcuts or the other.
Thus, it is very important to develop the induction program and at the same time, the
objectives along with the desired outcomes of the program should be clearly outlined
for the program which is clearly outlined so that the program will address that is
needed to set to deliver (Harrison Human Resources, 2014).
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ANSWER 4.2
The Induction plan is as follows:
Induction Plan for ABC Company
A number of the employees for induction:
Serial
number
Activity Number
of Days
Responsible for the
work / Trainer
1 To know about the history of
the company
5 days Project manager
2 to know about the company
policies
10 days Project Leader
3 to know about the project 20 days Project Leader
4 To develop a dummy project 30 days New employees
5 To create the necessary
documents
10 days New Employees
6 To review the dummy project
and the installation of the
project
5 days Project Leader and Project
Manager
7 To deliver the relevant
knowledge of new job role In
the project
5 days Project Leader and
Module leader
8 Understanding new assignment 2 days Project Leader
9 Completion of the Induction
Program
2 days Project Manager
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George, N. (2017). Importance of Personal Interviews in a Selection Process.
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