Evaluation of Newly Implemented Selection System of Google

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To: Management of Google
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Date: Jan 23, 2020
Subject: Evaluation of Newly Implemented Selection System of Google
Mr/Mrs,
I have been recruited by Google to evaluate its newly implemented system for selection. I will
therefore provide you with an insight of some of the crucial areas into which it touches upon.
Here, I will provide an answer to some of the key questions with regard to the new system.
Google, one of the reputed multinational companies, has always looked out for capable people
who can add value to the organization not only in the short term but also long-term. The
company has always emphasized on excellence and smartness amongst employees
(about.google, 2020). Google focuses on the careful selection of methods, strategies and
technique for the selection, recruitment and the retention of the quality workers. The sole
recruitment and selection system starts with selection of appropriate candidate followed by
telephonic or face to face interview. However, the following headings will provide an answer to
the various questions related to the new selection system.
1. Key R&S Issues that Google Attempted to Address through the Change. Goals of Changes
Google is one of the reputed Web search engine that accounts for close to 90 percent of market
share and has become synonymous with the web browsing (Luh, Yang & Huang, 2016). The
company found by Sergey Brin and Larry Page has always believed in the concept of innovation
and depended on its employees to put across required innovation. Hence, employees has always

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been a crucial part of Google. Therefore, as one of the renowned tech giants, Google is
immensely selective when it comes to choosing its employees and goes through a lengthy
process of recruitment and selection for filtering the suitable candidates.
Google has been found to receive close to over one million job applications every month
(Schmidt & Rosenberg, 2014). This puts a challenge before Google to effectively sort the one
million application for determining the suitable applicants. Through the newly implemented
recruitment and selection system, Google will try to overcome this challenge through application
of algorithms to the online applications for job. The automated system will make the process of
selection not only effective but also easier. It will also try to resolve problem the issues of the
past, when the selection system of Google required a suitable candidate to score an average grade
of 3.7 followed by close to twenty nine rounds of interview. As, you quite remember that the
outcome of the process did not quite appeal to the management. The management therefore can
look forward to ways of hiring talented candidates who will possess abilities of creativity, team
and leadership. The new R&S system will put across an efficient means that will help the
management to overcome all issues related to recruitment and selection through identification of
the appropriate candidate in no time.
The new system will comprise of an online bio data form comprising of 300 survey
questionnaire which will be filled by employees who had been part of the company for minimum
five months. Data from initial survey will then be compared with 25 different set of job
performance measures including the peer ratings, supervisor rating and the measures of the
organizational citizenship. The new system will help the management to eventually identify the
response patterns in relation to finance, sales, human resource and engineering and choose the
most ideal candidate with the help of response pattern (Klotz et al., 2013).