A desirable candidate will be in demand, and a wise interviewer will attempt to win over the candidate, while making sure she has all the information she needs to make an informed decision. It is important to let the candidate know how my company can benefit her in terms of salary, benefits and career advancement. A candidate should leave the interview impressed by our interest in her, and by what our company has to offer. Be Prepared i should be as prepared as the interviewer. Before starting the interview, I should carefully review the candidate's cover letter, resume, background information and references.
"Staffing Strategy" Please review the following recommendations for the staffing needs of you organizations. For the Tanglewood organization I think acquiring talent is best suited for your organization. While employees can be trained to suit the organizations needs hiring talent is important for you organization. The vision to involve employees in the decision making process and let them take control of how their own areas requires employees that possess talent to insure the success of the department and organization. It is my recommendation that the hiring activities be an outsourced function.
Question 5 – Customer Service Quality I feel that other measures would be to continue to train the employees on customer skills. Develop a program specifically for Tanglewood that would give the employees realistic scenarios they can do to improve their relationship skills with customer. You can also provide meeting where the manager and employees can discuss certain scenarios to better prepare new hires. I think focus groups will continue to help because they stay on top of problems and can keep you on your toes as the retail business changes. Question 6 – Realism in
Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan MGT 311 December 24, 2012 Steve Smith Team Member Name | Summary of Individual Characteristics | Motivational Strategy and Action Plan | Relevant Theory | Team Member #1 | Positive influence, effective leader, tends to act before thinking, lacks empathy. | Executing cross-training for TM#1 will help her learn different aspects of the organization, allowing her to work in different departments. This strategy will also force her into thinking before acting when she will likely not be the only person working on a project. This will also teach an effective communication line between departments. | Job rotation is the periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another with similar skill
I do not know how big the stores are, but what if we can decrease the number of employees and train the ones they have. Short- or Long-Term Focus Main goals for Tanglewood are further expansion and improving customer service. It is more appropriate to use long term, but we have to have talent management programs. Company has to make long-term goals, because they are harder to achieve. With long-term goals, we would have short-term goals and achieving even more.
It shows that the introverted individual come up with a plan before acting, needing time to think things through. Employers have found personality testing to be a great tool in determining whether or not an individual have what it takes to be successful on the job with interaction and interpersonal communication with others. Even though the pre-employment personality test is a good ideal, it does have the potential to produce problems. One of the problems would occur when a potential candidate tries to cheat the system by answering the question in a way to make the employer feel they are the best one for the job. This type of answering would be using a hypothetical method.
Compensation Hazem Alloush MRM531 - University of Phoenix Angela Nixon June 29, 2009 June 29, 2009 MEMO TO: Success Team FROM: Hazem Alloush Compensation Dear Success team, As most of you know that, many managers avoid giving feedback because they are not sure how to give it, and they fear a bad reaction. However, without feedback, individuals and teams do not get the information they need to improve their performance. Successful feedback must focus on three key dimensions: results, process and relationship. The feedback must increase results, use a clear process and lead to enhanced, rather than diminished, relationships. Choose when to give the feedback: If you are too angry or upset yourself, you will not be able to give the
Minimum Wage: To Raise or Stay the Same By Rebecca Gebhart March 5th, 2013 Gebhart 1 Even though many people think that increasing the minimum wage will be more harmful than helpful, most evidence shows otherwise. Raising the minimum wage seems to be the right thing to do because after research there seemed to have been more benefits then downfalls that come with it. With deciding whether or not increasing minimum wage is a good idea comes a lot of different factors. Three possible factors are the effect it has on a worker in their personal life, the willingness and participation of an employee and what will happen to the company as a whole. Someone who is opposed to increasing the minimum wage has their arguments to why it is a
Identifying Skills and Gap Analysis Information contained herein is the property of Curtin Careers Centre and cannot be reproduced without permission of the Centre. Self Assessment & Employability Skills Self assessment is about having an introspective look at your values, knowledge, skills and abilities. Even if you already have a good idea of your skills, it is worth taking the time to do a focused self-assessment. The benefits of such an exercise include: • Drawing your attention to previously unrecognised skills • Improving your job applications and interview performance • Increasing your self awareness and confidence • Goal setting: Self assessment is a way of learning what you do well, what you do not so well, and what you might do in the future. Therefore by identifying what you do not do so well you can determine your goals for addressing this.
Proficiency tests can be used to measure the employee’s abilities, or physical observation of the employees’ performance can be used. If you notice that there are still areas that need to be trained in, then you should make the changes to the training program as soon as possible. Also you can use the evaluation forms to identify areas that really don’t need to be covered and you can eliminate these things from your training program and save your company time and money spent on employee training. The common methods are:- 1) Direct Observation: It should be done without preconceived notions. It is often inaccurate if the evaluator does not have adequate information.