Managing Talent Essay

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Managing Talent: Can Yahoo Still Attract Tech Workers? Amber Tate Kaplan University AB203: Human Resources Management – 02 Professor Jennifer Bryant May 1, 2014 Introduction Recruiting is a big part of keeping a company running and it requires a lot of planning. The three steps that must be taken before a company can begin recruiting people are: forcasting, goal setting and strategic planning, and program implementation and evaluation. Forcasting is when the company determines the supply of and demand for various types of human resources. This helps the company to predict which areas of the company will have labor shortages or surpluses. Goal setting and strategic planning helps to focus attention on the problem and can provide a basis to measure the success in addressing labor shortages and surpluses. This stage is to get the company to select a strategy to handle the labor shortages and surpluses. Program implementation and evaluation are the final stage and tie the planning and recruiting to a companies’ strategy and efforts to develop employees. Evaluation helps to measure what parts of the planning were a success or failure (Gerhart, Hollenbeck, Noe, & Wright, 2014). Review/Analysis of the Case In Yahoo’s case, these steps should not be taken lightly. The company is severly understaffed due to losing employees to other companies. Filling these high tech positions will be hard for them considering they have a lower employee rating than other companies, such as Facebook and Google. This can lead to potential employees not giving Yahoo a second look. Yahoo has a high demand for information technicians, while there is a short supply for workers with this degree or experience. The company seems to be losing their employees to more exciting new companies while Yahoo is staying a part of the older internet industry. Internal recruiting

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