Managing People and Careers: Fictitious Job Vacancy

This project template includes a cover letter, CV and application form for a fictitious job vacancy of a Human Resource Manager at Desklib. The applicant has 10 years of experience and possesses skills like soft communication, persuasion, leadership and employ management. The application form includes questions related to group work, problem-solving, time management and persuasion. The reflection on business readiness is done using Gibbs and Kolb's model.

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COVER LETTER – COPY AND PASTE YOUR COVER LETTER HERE (MAX. 500 WORDS)
Today’s date
Hiring manager’s name
Address
Dear sir/madam
I am happy to state this that I admire the work done by your company. Since long I am
follower of your company. It is indeed a great opportunity for me to submit the application of
Human Resource Manager in your esteemed company. I have 10 years of experience as a role
of HR manager (Chase, Neiles, and Koch, 2020). I have all the qualities and key factors
mentioned in your job vacancy.
As an efficient HR manager I had served three multinational companies as mentioned in my
CV. I had served all these companies efficiently and honesty. As stated in my resume my
professional growth is quite a learning experience for me in all these 10 years of my job.
I had worked as a team leader under which I had performed many assigned tasks by the
company in which staff management, recruitments, hiring and training sessions are the key
jobs. With the due course of time my responsibilities in the company has extended which I
enjoyed and served religiously.
During my previous job I had learnt many things like critical thinking and interpersonal skills
which turns out to be very helpful in development of my professional side. In this hospitality
industry I trained innumerable candidates and made them aware of all goods and ills of
serving in any kind of profession. These skills have prepared me to grab this incredible
opportunity of working with your prestigious company.
With all my previous experience and professional skills made me to look myself upon a great
addition in your company. As already mentioned in my details my key skills are soft
communication, persuasion, leadership and employ management. With all such needful skills
I am seeking to serve your esteemed company and uplift its future growth.
Sincerely
_______________
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CV – COPY AND PASTE YOUR CV HERE (Maximum 2 sides of A4)
Name
Human Resource Manager
Address
Professional summary
Smart, active and talented human resource manager having _______ years of experience.
Highly skilled with good and clear communication skills. Work proficient strategic leader
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able to solve all kinds of problems. Master in records keeping and in managing employ-
company balanced relationship (Galán-Mañas, 2019). Efficient in providing different genres of
trainings to the staff. Specialization in achieving business target.
Work history
Human Resource manager (6 years)
Worked as team leader and supervisor of 10 members in a multi-national company.
Conducted on board trainings
Served the company as mediator between employs and company authorities.
Human Resource Administrator (4 years)
Maintained personal company records.
Conducted recruitments for 4 consecutive years.
Organized orientation programs 20 per year.
Human Resource Coordinator (5 years)
Organized group and individual trainings.
Monitored work procedures and timesheets along with pay hour slips.
Supervised various promotional events.
Organized monthly departmental trainings.
Skills
Soft communication skills
Resolve conflicts
Confidence of working efficiently under pressure
Confidential information keeper.
Special Skills
Time management
Group handling
Training sessions
Critical thinking
Decision making
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Management skills
Interpersonal skills
Hard skills Soft skills
Specialization in foreign languages. Persuasion
Computer savvy. Communication
SEO marketing. Public speaking
APPLICATION FORM (maximum 200 words per answer)
1. Why do you want to work for us?
I want to work for you because I find the opportunity that has been given by you to be
very exciting for me and with the help of this opportunity I will be able to develop myself
and my several skills for my better career (Parent, Kalenkoski, and Cardella, 2018). The role
you are providing me in your organisation will help me in in enhancing a forward
thinking skills in a well-established company and make me feel succeed at a time in the
role. I also want to work with your organisation because I believe that the experience
and skill set I have well help me to be suitable for the position you are hiring for and it
will also help me to gain required experience with sharpen skills in the company. I have
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also heard about the positive work culture of your organisation which makes me
attracted towards your company and if you give me an opportunity then I will positively
work at best level of mine for your organisation.
2. Tell us about a time you worked in a group to achieve an objective (what did you do
and what was the outcome?)
As I have share my experience and human resource manager administrator and
coordinator I have faced various achievement in terms of fulfilment of my objective with
my team and group (Schelhas, Hitchner, and Brosius, 2018). Being a part of human
resource team I have always give my best to manage groups and have a skills that helps
me to attain such a great experience. Being an employee of a company I have a target to
hire 100 employees for our company in an organisation and to achieve this talent I have
worked with my team with an objective to hire 100 suitable candidates for the company.
We divide our work within team and establish effective coordination between each of
them which helps us to achieve our goal successfully and will help the organisation to
give best talent among the candidates who apply for the position. The coordination that
we have in our team helps us to set standards and skill sets that are required to hire a
candidate in the company and also attract talented employees and candidates for
recruitment process of the company.
3. Tell us about a time when you identified a new approach to solve a problem. (What
did you do and what was the outcome?)
The major problem that I have found in my work experience is the shortage of
employees at the time of peak load in the organisation (Cave, and Dihal, 2019). As I was
the human resource manager in the organisation I was required to identify the number
of people that has been required in the organisation at the time of peak load and hire
them in the company. But later I face a problem in the shortage of recruitment which
creates overburden in the organisation. In order to solve this problem I have learnt to
use my proactive skills so that I can be able to identify the requirement of employees
proactively and does not face the problem at that time. In order to use the approach at
that time solve the problem I have used to hire contract employees to make that work
done at the time.
4. Tell us about a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and
complete a number of tasks in a short amount of time (what did you do and what was
the outcome?)
In my experience I have faced several times a dilemma in which I was required to manage
different priorities at a time and required to complete several number of task in a short
period of time. In order to manage such kind of situation I have used the decentralization
approach in which I divide my work with my team members so that no member of the team
feel burdened of the work (Skains, 2019). This dividing of task in smaller parts and allotment
of these tasks to various different persons according to their skills helped me to get better
outcome and achieve my goals and objectives in a short period of time.
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5. Tell us about a project you worked on that required you to persuade others to your
point of view (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
Being a manager I have faced several project in which I need to persuade others to get the
desired outcomes of the work (Engels, Kunkis, and Altstaedt, 2020). At a time I feel that I need
to complete a large order of the company of 100 units of their product to be provided to the
customer. Although I am the human resource manager of the company but still I worked
hard to complete the order of the company's so that the company can be able to gain more
profitability. I personally worked on this project to motivate all the employees of the
operational unit of the company and persuade them to work effectively with the
organisation. My efforts with the organisation will result in the effectively completion of the
order and helped me to achieve the desired outcome for stop we as a team complete the
order on time and deliver it to the client which help the company to get more orders in
future and also helps me to enhance my skills to manage and operational team in effective
manner.
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REFLECTION ON YOUR BUSINESS READINESS
GIBB’S MODEL:
Description
In order to be business ready I need to acquire various skills that are essential to become an
effective human resource personnel. In order to make myself business ready I need to develop my
effective communication skills and time management skills so that I can be able to demonstrate
myself in present in front of others and manage the time in effective manner. I have experienced of
taking various interviews which is required to communicate with different candidates having
different skill sets.
Feelings
I feel that with the above experience of taking so many interviews of different candidates with
different skill sets I was able to effectively develop my communication skills (Holthaus, and Stock,
2018). The experience with different types of candidates helps me in various manner so that I can be
able to communicate with them.
Evaluation
When I evaluate my interaction with the candidates and also the notice is that I dropped as a human
resource manager in my last company I have found that I have both positive and negative points
from that experience. The positive point of taking that experience is that I have developed my
communication skills with the help of taking interviews of the candidates. But there are many
candidates who just apply for the job and does not have any kind of skill set that are well suited for
the requirements. This has resulted in the wastage of my time and provides me and irritated and bad
experience with the work.
Analysis
Actually the situation makes the sense and helps me to effectively know about the various cultures
needs and modern trends in the human resource field and also helps me to develop my vocabulary
and listening skills that are most important in the enhancement of communication skills (Avis, 2018).
With the help of analyses of the evaluation that I have made above and to make the sense of the
situation I have analysed that I will able to develop my communication skills with the help of my
experience that has been described above.
Conclusion
With the help of experience I have gained in this many years. I have learnt the importance of
communication skills in an individual that has a direct effect on the talent management of the
company. I have used various approaches to provide effective training to the employees of the
organisation to enhance their communication skills which helps me to be different and also helps the
employees to enhance their communication skills in effective manner. I have also analysed that I
need to work on my time management skills so that I can be able to to complete my work in more
effective manner.
Action plan
If I have experience the same situation in the next time and are required to take interview of several
candidates at a time I will also use my effective communication skills to evaluate the skill sets of
individuals in the organisation. I will also use my time management skills to manage my time and
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analyse the candidates in effective manner in short period of time (Agarwal, Qian, and Tan, 2020).
And in order to be more effective in such kind of situation I would like to enhance my time
management skills.
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KOLB’S MODEL
Concrete experience
At a time I face a situation in which I have a lot of work to be binding on me and I don't have proper
time to complete the work in effective manner in such a short period of time. As a human resource
manager, I was required to draft the interview letters of various candidates and also have a burden
to send hire letters to the candidates whose cat clear their interviews earlier. All this work should be
done by me in two days only to help the organisation in getting required candidates for the work of
the organisation. In order to manage this kind of situation I have used my team workers and assign
the work to them. I have divided by work in small parts and allowed them to different candidates
according to the time that has been taken by the walk to complete it in effective manner and
draught as well as mail all the letters on the given time.
Reflective observation
I have filled in this kind of situation that this burden of work is due to my laziness which I have done
in typing the higher letter to the employees at that time when the clear the interview. I have also
required to manage the interview writers for the candidates at earlier times to prevent myself from
such a drastic situation.
Abstract conceptualisation
In case of abstract conceptualization and individual is required to identify the learning they have
made with the help of the experience. The experience helps me to analyse the value of time
management skills and helped me later to enhance my time management skills. In order to face this
kind of situation I have analysed that proper time management skills are very essential. The
experience helps me to understand the value of time management in to complete the work in timely
manner. I have learnt from the experience that I should work on my time management skills and
later work on my time management skills.
Active experimentation
From the day of this kind of experience I have make a nice schedule to be followed regularly by me
so that I can be able to enhance my skills. The experience that I have from my earlier actions help me
in enhancement of my most important skills that is time management skills. This setting up of a
schedule and following up all the details of this schedule on time will help me to enhance my time
management skills which is good for men growth and development
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