Megan M. Brown
Professor Karmia
Adler University
The Neon Orange Boot Company is a boot company known for their vibrant selling orange boots. The company is doing so well with sales that they can afford to open ten more stores in the United States. The company is looking towards recruiting to hire all their new employees for the new locations. The employees will have to go through structured interviews to ensure they are the perfect match for the company’s standards. Recruitment is used to add, maintain, or adjust an organization’s workforce (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). Recruitment involved establishment of workforce plans, specification of time and cost, staff requirements, determination of job requirements, …show more content…
When utilizing recruitment planning, labor force availability and internal workforce representation of women and minorities are critical factors (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). Recruitment planning would be highly useful in the ten US major cities that the Neon Boot Company is going to open locations in. When finding recruiters to conduct the recruiting process, you want to have a recruiter who would be like the audience; being similar will make the potential applicants feel at ease and not intimidated when inquiring about the job (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). When searching for the recruiters to conduct the recruitment process, analyzing their experience would be a plus (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). If a recruiter has more experience with the task at hand, they will easily be able to make their decisions with ease and on their own. Labor market conditions are another aspect to analyze when utilizing recruitment planning. Labor markets are defined as geographical areas within which forces of supply- people looking for work- interact with the forces of demand- employers looking for people- determining the prices of labor (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). Labor markets are an excellent tool to utilize with the new locations of the Neon Boot company because cost of living would be different in those given areas. With the cost of living being different, the company …show more content…
When hiring associates, experience is not as necessary as experience at the management level. Recruiters need to understand that all individuals start at the bottom level of a company and work their way up the ladder. This benefits the individual because they can learn from mistakes at all levels and correct them, ensuring a smoothly run company. Recruiters also want to look at the cost of hire for an associate. An associate with little to no experience would cost more in training costs than that of a somewhat experienced associate (Cascio & Aguinis, 2011). Recruiters also want to look for an associate who is more focused on the job tasks ensuring things are done correctly versus someone who cares more about the money involved with the job. Recruiters need to also take caution on how they tell individuals about their status of employment. Recruiters need to take caution on the wording of their messages to ensure that they are not offensive in any way. As for the Neon Boot Company, recruiters would be successful at placing individuals if they pay attention to what they specific store in a specific location needs. Recruiters need to make sure to analyze the potential candidate’s personality and how well they would fit into the existing organization. Recruiters should have some experience so that they know that is expected out of them when asked to staff one