Apple Make-vs.- Buy Decision

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Apple’s Make-vs.-Buy Decision Claud Strayer University Human Resource Management Foundations Professor Jeanette Horner-Smith January 19, 2013 1. Based on the information given but in your own words, explain what approaches to recruiting might be best suited to Apple’s talent acquisition. Although there are many different approaches when it comes to recruiting personnel for an organization, Apple has to chose an approach that would be best to keep the company’s innovative plans under lock an key to keep their competitors from getting information about their new future products. First, would be to search the internal sources of the organization. Usually when employers are looking to fill positions within there organizations they usually like to search within the company first. Organizations recruit existing employees through job posting, or communicating information about the vacancy on company bulletin boards, in employee publications, on corporate intranets, and any where else the organization communicates with employees (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright 2011). After all the people that are currently working for the organization would be the best most likely be the best candidates for the positions. Next, would be to do referrals because it would be more cost efficient for the organization. Also, if the organization already has a good group of people working for them than the current employees already have an idea of what kind of attributes the organization looks for in its employees. Last, would be to do a job fair at colleges or universities because many of them have internships, and the people that are graduating may have new innovative ideas that the company could really use. Internship programs give an organization early access to potential applicants and let the organization assess their capabilities directly (Noe et al.,

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