Maryland Technology Consultants Hiring System: BA&SR Report

This report provides a comprehensive business analysis and system recommendation (BA&SR) for the Maryland Technology Consultants (MCT) hiring system. It begins with an introduction to MCT, including its business purpose, environment, and current challenges related to hiring. The report then delves into the strategic use of technology, highlighting the need for an IT-based hiring system to overcome the limitations of manual recruitment processes. The analysis covers the business strategy, competitive advantages gained through online recruitment, and strategic objectives. The report further explores decision-making roles within MCT and the information the hiring system could provide to support those decisions. The document also includes references to relevant sources. The assignment brief outlines the stages of the BA&SR report, emphasizing process analysis, requirements development, and system recommendations to improve the hiring process at MCT.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Business purpose.............................................................................................................................3
Environment....................................................................................................................................4
Current challenges...........................................................................................................................5
Strategic Use of Technology...........................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Maryland Technology Consultant (MTC) is considered to be a successful IT consulting
firm that haven proven its worth in the business field by providing proper and efficient working
stature. This section ensures that the management of the IT methodologies are performed in a
proper manner. This section ensures the fact that the operational process, the organization falls
under the small to mid tier business organization. The customer base that it has is equivalent to
that of many non profit organization, local government and federals that will be providing a
better assessment of the working process of the MTC organization. The major works that are
performed by MTC organization are namely providing IT consulting, IT outsourcing and
Business process consulting. They have been providing some extra ordinary service to their
clients. MTC have been founded in the year 2008, in the month of May. They have headquarter
located in Baltimore, which is again in Maryland. The total number of employees who have been
working in the organization is 450. The total annual gross revenue that is collected in the
operational process of MTC have been $95,000,000.
Business purpose
The business process of MTC organization can be diversified in 3 major sections. The sections
are as follows: -
 Business Process Consultancy: The business processes that are considered by MTC are
namely providing consultancy regarding the business process redesigning process.
Another aspect that is considered in the section is that proper assessment of the process
improvement is also made. Providing with better ideas for the operational process have
been yet another aspect that is to be considered in the process.

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 IT Consultancy: Developing IT strategy development is also performed in the process.
Planning of the IT development process for their clients also. Providing proper planning
regarding bettering of IT framework have been considered to be an important aspect.
System development for the immediate clients are also performed. Implementing and
providing network support is also one of the major working activity of MTC.
 IT Outsourcing Consultancy: In this section requirement analysis of the projects of
different clients are performed. Evaluation of the vendors have been yet another aspect
that is to be considered. Assessment of due diligence, selection and performance
management is also performed. Service level agreements are also provided in the process.
Environment
The working environment of MTC have been very lean in nature. They are not heavily
stuffed with IT machineries. All the prospects that will be acting beneficial in the process is that
the employees have the zeal to grow as a unit. Another aspect that is to be considered in the
process is that the higher authority has the understanding of the business process and are open to
information and advices. The openness to new introductions have been one of the major aspects
that are considered in the process. These are the aspects that have been ensuring that the
organization have been in a constant growth stage. The working process of the organization is
also very well planned as they have initially planned that they will be growing at a constant rate
of 7% of next few years. They have been highly reluctant in analyzing the working evaluation of
the employees and hence wise the higher authority understands the need of technology
incorporation process.

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Current challenges
The major challenges that are present in the operational process of the organization is die
ti the fact that the business have been growing at a constant rate. This growth in the
organizational structure ensures that there will be a higher requirement of hiring new IT
consultants to support the entire process. This section ensures that there will be a requirement of
a higher number of employees for accomplishment of the different tasks that will come in the
process. It have been seen that there have been a requirement of 75 new employees for
completion of 2 new projects.
Strategic Use of Technology
Business Strategy
Manual processing of recruitment have been falling short of the efficiency that is required
for excess recruitment in very less time. Hence there is a requirement of implementing IT based
hiring system. It is expected that with the implementation of the IT hiring system, the entire
efficiency of the hiring process will be decreasing. There is an urgent need of recruiting over 75-
150 new employees for the 2 new projects that they have undertaken. CV selection process is
also performed in a better manner and the time that is required for the shortlisting process gets
decreased.
Competitive advantage
With the help of the online recruiting process system being set up, the main benefit that is
received in the process is that the hiring process have been getting performed in a manner that
ensures that the most capable applicants are chosen in least time (Leung et al., 2020). Hence it
can be said that with better employees on board and hence wise there is a better assessment of

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tasks that are taken up (Dhende et al., 2018). Hence this provides a competitive edge over the
other organizations.
Strategic Objective
Strategic objectives have been ensuring the fact that there have been proper assessment of
the strategic goals, objectives as well as proper explanation of the operational process is stated.
Strategic Goal
(from case study)
Objective
(clear, measurable and time-
bound)
Explanation
(2-3 sentences)
Bidding for new
contracts
To expand the business With increase inn
number of employees,
higher number of
projects can be
considered. Hence
expansion of business.
Remote research of the
online team
Better the international
recruitment policy
Better employee
selection. Faster
completion of projects.
Increase employee
strength
Take up newer projects Better completion of the
project. Higher number
of chosen projects
(Huber 2018).
Good will might
increase due to usage of
Increase awareness and Better and faster efficient
hiring process. Better

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technical goods popularity of the brand. branding among the
clients.
Decision making
CEO of MTC have decided to expand the organization by hiring new employees in order
to complete the new projects that are undertaken by MTC.
Role Level as
defined in
Course
Content
Reading
Example of Possible
Decision Supported
by Hiring System
Example of
Information the
Hiring System
Could Provide to
Support Your
Example Decision
Senior/Executive
Managers
(Decisions made by
the CEO and the
CFO at MTC
supported by the
hiring system.)
High Data based selection Both the background
data and the data that
will be generated
during the interview
process is also
provided to the
executive managers
(Trivedi, Dewangan
& Kature 2017).
Middle Managers Moderate Overall Evaluation Educational

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(Decisions made by
the Director of HR
and the Manager of
Recruiting supported
by the hiring
system.)
background
Operational
Managers
(Decisions made by
the line managers in
the organization who
are hiring for their
projects supported
by the hiring
system.)
Moderate Eligibility Eligibility of the
candidate

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References
Dhende, S. D., Pashankar, A. S., Pawar, S. A., Salave, A. S., & Salunkhe, S. D. (2018).
Candidate Hiring Through CV Analysis. System, 5(05).
Huber, A. (2018). Exploring Hiring Practitioner Preferences for and Assessment Practices of
Prospective Candidates. Journal of Interior Design, 43(4), 21-44.
Leung, W., Zhang, Z., Jibuti, D., Zhao, J., Klein, M., Pierce, C., ... & Zhu, H. (2020). Race,
Gender and Beauty: The Effect of Information Provision on Online Hiring Biases.
Trivedi, A., Dewangan, S. K., & Kature, S. (2017). AHS: AUTOMOBILE HIRING
SYSTEM. Indian Journal of Scientific Research, 210-215.