International Management: Applicant Ranking & Hiring Rationale

This assignment presents a student's individual ranking of job applicants for a Vice President of International Marketing position. The ranking includes justifications for each candidate's placement, considering factors such as experience, language proficiency, work ethic, and personality traits. Zvi C. is ranked first due to his marketing success record, global contacts, creativity, and multilingualism. Park L. is second, valued for his experience and company loyalty, but lacks fluency in German and French. Peter V. is third, possessing creativity, loyalty, and language skills, but is inflexible regarding location. Kiran K. is fourth due to her job-hopping tendency, despite her academic background and language skills. Tex V. is ranked last due to his aggressiveness and limited language skills, despite his experience and work ethic. The analysis provides insight into the decision-making process for international management hiring.

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

My Ranking
Applicant Ran
k
Reasons
Park L. 2nd I have given Park L. the
second rank for the job role
of vice president of
international marketing.
This is so because he has a
vast experience in the
marketing industry and thus
he is quiet aware of our
company’s expectations
from him. Another
important reason for
recommending him for the
job is that he has a record
of being consistent with his
attachment with a particular
company for a long time.
Thus, it is expected that he
will not switch companies
frequently. On the contrary,
he is not my first choice
because he is not fully
comfortable to converse in
German and French
language that can be a
problem if our company
decides to locate him in
other places for the sake of
the work.
Kiran K. 4th Kiran K. has a well
academic background that
includes her doctorate in
business administration. In
addition, she has
experience to work with
companies in marketing

related job roles. Moreover,
she is comfortable to
converse in multiple
languages that will be
beneficial for our company.
However, there is one big
issue with her that is she
frequently shifts job roles
according to her moods and
timely preferences. Thus, I
think she will be less
reliable for our company.
Peter V. 3rd Peter V. is my third choice
for this job role. He has all
the required qualities to be
good international
marketing head. Mostly, he
is said to be creative and
loyal and a good motivator
too. Apart from that, he is
fluent in multiple languages
and is well organized with
his work. The only problem
lies in the fact that he is not
comfortable in changing his
location for work and our
company may locate him
here and there for certain
period of times.
Tex V. 5th Tex has also most of the
required qualities that the
job role requires. For
example, he has a good
academic degree in
marketing and has a wide
range of working
experience too. However,
he is said to be aggressive
that is not expected from a

marketing person. On the
other hand, he is a
workaholic and this can
create obstacles in his way
to come up with creative
marketing ideas if he does
not enjoy any time for
relaxing. Moreover, he is
not fluent in many
languages, which is another
reason for giving the last
rank from my side.
Zvi C. 1st Zvi C. is my first choice
because of various reasons.
One of the reasons for
hiring him is that he has no
failed records when it is
about giving marketing
suggestions to the
companies he previously
worked on. We can see that
even in critical situations he
managed to increase the
market share of the
companies by giving
significant marketing ideas.
Apart from that, he is also a
much respected person and
also has a good contact
with the high tech
departments all over the
world. Thus, it can be
expected that our company
will not have to deal with
any kind of behavioral
issue with him and on the
top of that, he will be able
to fetch contacts from other
significant sectors when it
will be needed. Finally, one

of the finest qualities of
being a marketing manager
is to be creative with the
marketing strategies. This
quality is also there in him
and moreover he is fluent
in multiple languages so it
will be easier for him to
travel to diverse areas for
our company’s work.