Incident 1 A Problem Ad?

 

Dorothy Bryant was the new recruiting supervisor for International Manufacturing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of Dorothy’s

first assignments was to recruit two software design engineers for International. Design engineers are hard to recruit because of the difficulty of their training and the high demand for them. After considering various recruitment alternatives, Dorothy placed the following ad in a local newspaper with a circulation in excess of 1,000,000:

 

Employment opportunity for software design engineers

 

2 positions available for engineers desiring career in growth industry.

 

Prefer recent college graduates with good appearance.

 

Good credit rating

 

Apply Today! Send your résumé,

 

in confidence, to: D. A. Bryant

 

International Manufacturing Co., P.O. Box 1515

 

Salt Lake City, UT 84115   More than 300 applications arrived in the first week, and Dorothy

 

was elated. When she reviewed the applicants, however, it appeared

 

that few people possessed the desired qualifications for the job.

 

Questions

 

1.  Dorothy overlooked some of the proper recruiting practices,

 

which resulted in an excessive number of unqualified people

 

applying. What are they?

 

2.  Are there any hiring standards that should be avoided? Identify

 

them and explain why they should be avoided.

 

3.  What recruitment sources and methods might have been used

 

to have generated a better applicant pool for the two software

 

design engineer positions for International Manufacturing?

 

Read Incident 1 and answer all three questions. Your answers to the questions should  one page typed double space using a font size not less than 12. There is no reward for verbosity. Your submission should be in Microsoft Word and submitted by 11 Am on 06-26-15