Talent Nurturing and Socialization

Instructions

Q1) You are the Talent Acquisition Specialist for a private accounting firm located in Portland with 200 employees. The firm is experiencing 5% growth and you forecast (trend analysis) that 10 junior accountants will be needed in the next fiscal year, which begins in 3 months. Develop a sourcing plan to attract 10 junior accountants to your firm, average salary of $50,000 each.
Be sure your plan includes:
-internal and external sourcing (see Table 6.1), explain your rationale
-a draft budget (get creative, see Table 6.5, consider LinkedIn costs for job ads) https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/74054
-job advertisement (ad) that includes top 5 essential functions, minimum qualifications and the benefit package
Discussion 2
Instructions
Q1) Research a company of your own choosing and answer all of the following:
• What is their marketing message? What does this tell you about their business stage (growth, maturity, decline) and business strategy (customer intimacy, efficiency, etc., see Chapter 2)?
• Now how does it tie into their recruiting message/employer branding? (see p. 186-190 for assistance, as well as the employer’s career site).
• Please provide a link out to the company’s career site.
Discussion 3
Instructions
Please respond to ONE of the questions below:
Q1) From Chapter 9, identify and summarize any of the tests (cognitive, psychomotor, integrity, simulation, etc.) you have personally received during an interview process. Was it job-related to the opening or not?
Q2) You will be writing interview questions. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist or HR Business Partner, crafting interview questions with the hiring supervisor is a basic skill. For this exercise, there is not a specific job, as these questions are universal.
• Create a question for each type of ‘fit’ (see Table 9.1).
• Write an interview question for a behavioral interview.
• Draft an interview question for a situational interview.

Discussion 4
Instructions
• Research a company of your choice. Now review their ‘Careers’ section of their website.
• After selecting one open position, develop a full offer letter to a ‘fake’ finalist.
• Be sure to consider the factors that affect the content of job offers (Figure 11.1).

Discussion 5
Instructions
Respond to ONE of the following:
• After reviewing Table 12.1, Socialization Program Choices, otherwise known as onboarding, select one and justify why it is the best option in a an organization with multiple locations. Now determine which option would be the least viable.
OR:
• Summarize and identify socialization programs you have personally experienced as a new hire. If you could change one program at an employer, what it would be?
Whichever you choose to answer, be sure to include what you learned from the articles/videos posted in D2L.

Discussion 6
Instructions
This is your last weekly assignment!! Respond to ONE of the following:
• CEOs send out company-wide communication often, but can you figure out what might impact staffing? Here is your challenge: After reviewing the President’s budget message (from Clackamas Community College) and Table 1.1, which of the 7 components of strategic staffing did you find? Explain your rationale.
Hint: The ‘addressing vacancies’ paragraph on page 2 has a few acronyms, such as FTF POR, which stands for ‘full time faculty position opening request.’
• After watching the CEO video and Science of Happiness video posted in D2L, how is staffing impacted?
• Research 2 current articles (Forbes is okay) that are related to staffing. Be sure to identify which of the 7 components you are seeing. Don’t forget to add a link to each 🙂 I also recommend using SHRM’s HR Magazine as a source too.
• You’ve had weeks of experience working on your group term papers. Share three key take-aways you have learned from this experience.