Human Resource management (HRM) can be defined and simplified in various ways. One definition is that HRM is to “get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats” (Collins, 2001). The People theory is a theory in HRM that includes Recruitement and selection- two major subjects in the HRM function which concerns people and their way to a job for them.This essay will treat and discuss these two topics, recruitment and selection and their importance to the HRM function.
Recruitment
Job advertisements is a form of recruitment and can be done through several ways for instance through the internet, newspapers, jobcentres etc. (Foot and Hook, 2008). According to Armstrong, M., (2009).The aim is to attract plenty of individuals with the competency for the vacancy to the least cost also to motivate candidates to take action, to uphold interest in the organisations vacancy and for the company to compete with other organisations of the most attractive candidates.
Google- a web based search engine appointed the world’s most attractive employer 2013 by 200 000 students or potential candidates (Universum, 2013), utilizes job advertisement relatively limited to their corporate website (Google, 2013), this displays the importance of maintaining a continuous interest amongst possible candidates as it creates a platform and contribute to strengthen the chances of finding suitable candidate for the vacancy (Armstrong, 2009). Google is also known to have attractive benefits such as free legal aid, travel insurance, on -site physicians etc. making it appealing for applicants to apply as well as further widen the pool of potential candidates.
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I am writing this paper off a Google Drive document, and found all my research through Google search engine. Google recently announced, that Gmail now has 425 million users, and is being used by government agencies in forty-five states and sixty-six of the top one hundred Universities have gone Google. Google also announced at it’s recent developer conference, over five million businesses have gone Google. Google is an American multinational thriving corporation, and one of the most common household words in modern society. For young adults nearing college graduation, many may dream of working at Google and experiencing the modern, unique technology benefits Google offers their employees. According to CNN Money Fortune, Google is number one on the best companies to work for list, and after interviewing a “Googler” readers can confirm the statement, though it’s fun, that Google has a productive work environment that keeps employees happy, and makes it the best company to work for.
Google 's benefits create a full proof environment. Anything and everything an employee could want or desire is at their disposal. Google provides a wide variety of free services including but not limited to on site meals, haircuts, and medical services. Google also offers unlimited sick leave, tuition reimbursement, death benefits, and busses that transport San Francisco residents to and from work. Google believes that satisfied employees will work more efficiently and increase employee job
The title of the article “How to Get a Job at Google” pulls his audience into reading the article. Many people would like to know how they could get a job at one of the most successful companies out there. However, that is not what the article is about. Friedman’s interview with Bock does tell his audience what qualities Google looks at when hiring people, but Friedman’s main purpose is to persuade his audience that having these qualities are important in any job and are what many employers are looking for. The words that Friedman uses in the article make it informal and more appealing to his audience of high school and college students. He chooses to include quotes with crass statements, such as “‘worthless,’” “‘don’t care,’” and “‘argue like hell.’” He also decides to write his article in a tone that is unrefined, which makes the article a simple read. By using only Bock as a credible source and not incorporating other credible individuals in this subject area, helps Friedman make his article easy to understand and simple to read, therefore, making it pleasing to his audience. The article topic itself is thought provoking and reaches those who are open-minded to a different perspective on the qualifications of a job applicant divergent from the more traditional
Google tries to retain its employees and evaluate them in a quantitative but also qualitative manner. In fact, the company made its work environment colorful and vehicles the image of a fun place to work through what it proposes. For example, employees can have free snacks or bring their pet at the office or go to the gym etc... Employees can benefit from flexible working hours and have some time for their self-directed projects which shows the importance of the creativity and innovation from each and in every departmen...
The growing competitions created by globalization had been pressuring organization to lay more emphasis on recruiting talents in order to gain secure foothold in the market. With the introduction of person-job fit and person-organization fit, it assists both applicants and organization to have a clear image of who is the right person for particular career; at the same time, it acquires the recruitment process to operate efficiently. Here, I will have a further explanation on the topic by employing the definition from Saks and Ashforth (1997) of person-job fit and person-organization fit. In this essay, I will begin with discussing the influences and application of both concepts in recruitment strategy by giving evidences and examples. A conclusion will come up to strengthen the point that there is a linkage between them.
People's lifestyle on a daily basis has been altered and modernised with the influence of the many complimentary services and products delivered by Google such as YouTube, Google Search, Google Translate, Google Maps.
2. With the benefits that Google provides to its employees to maintain a balanced lifestyle, Google is an incredible company to work for although it demands long hours, dedication, and hard work from all employees. Nonetheless, even though Google is an excellent company, due to research and past examples, Google must focus on its hiring process more because many qualified employee’s leave because of their long and tough hiring process.
“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. With this mission set the company created Google Zeitgeist which at every end year sums up what millions of people search for, still continued every year. Google is able to a hold a competitive advantage over its competitors such as ask.com and msn because it provides to its users with services such as cloud computing, software and online commerce and much more.
Google Inc. is a company that started in 2002 and has gradually grown to become an international technology company. Google’s business is mainly focused around vital areas, like advertising, search, operating platforms and systems and platforms, hardware products and enterprise. The company produces its revenue mainly by distributing online advertising. Google also produces revenues from Motorola through selling products. The company offers its services and products in over 100 languages and in over 50 regions, territories and countries. The company assimilates various features in its search service and gives dedicated search services to aid users modify their search. Google also gives product-listing advertisements, which comprise of product information, like price, merchant information and product image without needing ad text or extra keywords.
Google helps users to predict and portend new opportunities by the use of new knowledge. They can find enormous amount of knowledge and information in wide area of their interests.
has various methods of motivation and rewarding their treasured employees. These motivational factors serve as long term strategy for the company and ensure that their staff work at an optimum level while being rewarded appropriately and maintaining high morale in the process. One of Google’s long term objective is to create challenging jobs to attract unique individuals whom have far beyond average skills for example Engineers at Google are encouraged to take up to 20% of their time for developing new products or improving of existing ones this is normally done through team work Just as Pfeffer Best practise describes “Employee involvement and information sharing” to further elaborate on this point one of the founders of Google stated “Google tends to hire problem solvers, Do it yourself spirit, they are some of the nicest and brightest people I’ve met. Thats the most pleasant part about working at google”-Ben Stoddard (Lyubomira Angova & Nevena Dragoshinova,07/02/2013) This organization also provides many incentives that make working at Google an immense experience, in order to keep their workers at the top of their game in terms of innovation, work ethic and creativity, Perks such as Employees being referred to as “Googlers” rather than workers thus eliminating or reducing status differentials as stated by Pfeiffer’s best practise. Hrm department at Google is in sy...
Hill (2005) suggested that, Google’s, Internet Search product had changed the way people access information, changed the way they thought about information (p. 11). From its registration on September 15th 1997, Levy (2011) indicated that Google continued growing, in users’ priority for information (p. 112). Google search is a free service available to internet users, it is one of the many products owned by Google Inc. Google search was termed, “the avenue for connecting people to information” (Internship, 2013).
...oose from, however sorting through applications to remove unsuitable ones can be time consuming. The other negative is that you are only going to get people that are actively seeking. This is why they don’t just use this method. Another method is using social media. This method is effective because of how popular social media is today. It generates a wide reach and you can set it so certain people will see it, for example people living in certain areas, people of a certain age etc. This is very useful for NatureCare as they are looking for university graduates of at least 4-5 years ago. They can advertise to certain regions, or even people that have attended certain schools, such as UC. Social media recruiting is effective because it is not a high cost compared to traditional advertising and the hiring time can be reduced greatly.
Therefore, human resource professions plan in a way by understanding the requirement needed to handle task of a particular department. Therefore, giving job description is essential where essential skills and requirement that a candidate need to have must be given. Besides, person specifications are also important to know the experience and qualities within a person (Wright et al. 2014). After recruiting the candidates they are screened and selected to come up in next level where interview will be conducted among the selected candidates. In addition, training is an important element that groom up the candidates according to the roles and responsibilities they will be conducting as an organisation
Advertising a Job Vacancy When advertising a job vacancy, the business must ensure that all