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Interview Questions: A Critical Review

Interview Questions: A Critical Review
According to Agyei and Christopher (2016), “getting the right people in the right place at the time doing the right job is an essential element of recruitment and selection process in organizations”. Therefore, it is important for managers to design selection strategies and interview questions thoughtfully.
This paper contains the review and assessment of the interview questions used by Southwood School District for their recruitment process. It further lists suggestions and corrections that can be opted for the future interview processes. Though the school improved a lot from its previous method of selection by ...

1. This case study outlines a meticulous, multifaceted process that Standard Life utilizes in order to find the best candidates for this incredibly competitive job. The human resources management strategy they are implementing in this process is highly selective and aims for the best of the best, knowing that highly qualified individuals will desire to work for them. While they do send out information to all universities to let everyone know about their job opportunities, they only send out HR staff to career fairs at 25 of the most well-regarded universities, showcasing their search for excellent. Next, they have to ...

When choosing to send a manager to head operations overseas there are a lot of factors that go into the decision of who would be the right fit for the assignment. The candidate must be well versed on business operations, knowledgeable of both companies, and experienced in managing operations. Other concerns that go into finding the right candidate range from health care, education for small children, political climate, cultural differences, and other factors that make the decision for the right candidate pertinent to the overall success. Among the greater concerns for companies are, “the costs of failed assignments—employees who move ...

Politics and government is a very touchy subject for a lot of people. This is especially true right now with the presidential election right around the corner. All of the focus is on the national stage and many people forget that local governments have their issues as well. These issues come from there being too much bureaucracy and too many people that want to be in charge.
​ This is the ongoing issue in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. They are a large county with various towns and boroughs. Every town has a legislative body all encompassed and watched over by the ...

Introduction

According to this case study, Conner is facing many issues due to the sudden resignation of Thompson. The firm is in a dilemma because of the major deal coming up with the company where Thompson was responsible for the power chip. Further complications also arise from the fact that the enterprise does not have senior semiconductor analyst. Importantly, the top analysts are not many to fill in the vacant position. On the other hand, Conner had to tread so lightly with the low-rank analyst, Shea Reena. In her effort, Reena has stepped out to cover the chip power contract ...

Townley (2014) suggests that the function of selection is of crucial importance in the process of hiring a candidate for the right vacancy. Selection is all about choosing the right candidate for the right kind of job from a pool of candidates such that he posses the required knowledge and skill set to perform the job with efficiency and effectiveness. If the process of selection is not performed properly, then incapable candidates become part of the organization where they fail to meet their goals and expectations and then human resource department is blamed for it (Dipboye, 2014).
In the ...

The human resource management takes a leading role in enhancing the global competitiveness of an organization. One of its vital functions is to implement effective and organized procedures in the selection process of hiring employees. Selection involves the process of using instruments in choosing from a pool of candidates applying for a job (Tiwari, 2015). There are different selection methods involved when choosing the right candidate for a job position. These methods include the use of application form, psychometric tests, resume or curriculum vitae review, formal (structured) interview, informal (unstructured) interview, teaching observation, presentation of the candidates to a ...

The hiring decisions are usually made in the first half of the year. The new associates and some of the analysts that are employed by SG Cowen begin internship in the summer and subsequently receive full-time employment. So the hiring process should end by the summer.
The hiring process begins in the autumn in order to have enough time for presenting the company at different business schools and participating in the on-campus recruiting programs. SG Cowen decided not to focus on the top schools, because the competition for the talents is very high there. So instead the company works ...

Interview Questions

Interview Questions
Job interviews are usually prepared to determine whether the employer and employee will make an effective match. For Interview’s validity questions should be asked from experience so that the information to select the best candidate for the post is easily gotten. Moreover, when this criterion is used biased questions, for instance, concerning age, race are avoided. Applicants will be assured an equal opportunity to prove that they are competent and have the required skills for the job. It is during an interview that the candidate exhibits his or her communication skills in building rapport with the ...

The gentleman made a better decision. Basically, the decision made is in line with the requirements of the job. The gentleman assessed the skills, abilities and behaviour and realized that the selected candidate would definitely fit with his company’s culture. He felt at ease with the candidate during the time of interview. The psychological testing proved that the candidate was generally fit for the job. Thus, besides the knowledge, experience and education, the gentlemen realized that the candidate must have organization skills, technical skills and communication skills which were pertinent in the organization.
The criteria considered by the ...

LT Brown should be considered for the spot promotion. This decision is based on leadership perspectives that are to be considered. Choosing between the two candidates LT Coffer and LT Brown is a process that will require CDR Smith to consider a number of aspects. This is because both candidates are equally qualified in terms of their experience, rank, and passion for higher responsibilities. In his book, Leadership: Theory and Practice Peter Northouse suggests a number of approaches that can be used to select leaders in such circumstances.

Factors that lead to the decision

Four factors will be considered leading to the decision to select LT Brown, traits, ...

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

The interviewing team should take time to prepare the interview questions, determine the skills required for the project and forecast any concerns that may arise from other parties during the process. The team should also acquaint themselves with background information on the interviewees.

Step Two: Outlining objectives

The objectives of the interview should be well highlighted before the actual process; this is essential in ensuring that the right skills are selected for the project. In addition, the team should also identify the professional objectives of each interviewee and aim to highlight how the project will help achieve these ...

Introduction

This case study focuses on the opening of new Dunkin Donut locations. Dunkin Donuts is an international donut and coffee house company with headquarters at Canton, Massachusetts. The company belongs to the food and beverage industry. The company offers baked foods such as donuts and bagels; iced beverages; hot beverages; soft drinks and frozen beverages (Rangaswamy, 2012). The management of Dunkin Donuts franchise intends to open five new stores in two years’ time. This case study presents the job design (Franchise manager, baker, accounting manager and coffee maker); organizational design; recruitment and selection procedures and the training and performance ...

An article published on Wall Street Journal (2013) views hiring employees as an initial step towards the creation of a strong work force. However, there are other steps that must be taken to ensure employees stay put in the company. According to the Wall Street Journal (2013), retaining employees comes after employing them. The PwC study provided in our article has identified four most common reasons why employees leave their organizations. In order of rank the four most common reasons provided by PwC study are:
- Limited career/promotion opportunities
- Lack of compensation
- Job duties assigned to ...

Increase the candidate pool of recruits – Improving the candidate pool of recruits will bring in a large variety of potential candidates who have the potential for the job. Increasing the pool include the use of university placement officers and recruiters after developing relations with them to provide the best candidates. Use of conferences and professional association with staff members may help meet employees that are good for the bank (Pankl, Theiss, & Bushing, 2010).
Involve employees in the hiring process – Involving the current employees in the hiring process will improve in the quality of recruits since the current employees know ...

Problem 1

Voting
In 2016, in the course of new presidential election, a voter will vote via the Internet. A voter should have either a National Tax Number or national identification number. A voter should have his national identification number together with his thumb impression. The online system will read a thumb impression with the aim of making sure there is no falsification, and one person is able to vote only once.

All members who participate in the presidential elections in 2016 will have to complete their election campaigns before October 13, 2016, five days prior the day when election takes place. It ...

Q1: Using Peter Frumkin’s model of the Four Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, how would you describe MeadowMarsh Service Agency.
Ans: Peter Frumkin focuses on four primary functions of Non Profit and Voluntary organizations and believes that success can be achieved by them only if all of these functions are balanced. He describes these organizations as
- Vehicles of Service Delivery
- Promoters of Civic and Political engagements
- Vehicles for Social Entrepreneurship
- Enactors of Values and Faiths
With reference to the above MeadowMarsh Service Agency is basically a service delivery ...

Q.1.If you were an applicant, would the HVP program be attractive to you? Why or why not? If you were going to be an offer receiver, which of the three plans would you choose and why?
If I were to be an HVP program applicant it would be an attractive option for me as it provides flexibility in choosing the plan which would best suit my needs. Along with this the plan can be altered every two years which allows for better adaptability to individual needs. As every individual needs differ from each other, similarly, an individual’s ...

Introduction

The Four Seasons Hotel management and staff have one golden rule, which is ‘do unto others, as you would have them do unto you’. This means that everyone is treated with dignity, respect and compassion; be it a client or an employee. In order to cultivate such a philosophy and culture in an organization, it is cardinal to have the right people to implement it. To achieve this objective, the Four Seasons Hotels human resource department has a comprehensive program for recruiting, selecting and hiring new employees. Opportunities are provided openly and fairly to all qualified candidates interested in working for the ...

On November 7, 2000 the Presidential election took place and it was a competition of candidates for presidency between republicans and democrats as Bill Clinton was vacating the position. Former Pres. George W. Bush was the Republican candidate, and the former Vice President, Al Gore, was the Democratic candidate. Due to the differences of the respective counts from exit polls, which revealed Gore was leading, to actually ballot counts, which declared Bush as the winner on the Florida state, this statutory case became a political controversy.

Background. This election was a known for its controversy as the winning candidate had received fewer ...

Description of Issue:

The main point of concern in the current case is that Marla Gilson, a former president and CEO of the Association of Jewish Aging Services of North America (AJAS), was fired because of disability discrimination (she suddenly found herself being sick for leukemia). On returning from the second round of chemotherapy, she asked AJAS for permission to carry out her managerial activity from home for six months until she would finally recover. She had been notified that she was fired instead (Shin, 2011).
A decision of the board seems to be neither logical nor well-grounded since Gilson was hired ...

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The Coca-Cola Company has a long history of innovation and development. The company was founded in 1886 by a recipe concoction created by pharmacist John S. Pemberton (Coca-Cola, n.d.). The beverage enjoyed moderate success until Pemberton passed away, and several businessmen worked to ensure the trademark drink would become a world famous flavor. In the early 1900s the product expanded rapidly from its roots in the southeastern United States across the country, and the cause of all of this growth can be traced back to successful leadership in terms of management and innovation. The purpose ...

Implementation of the Controversial Policy “The Condensed Work Week.”

For that reason, the new Human Resource Vice President should consider how to implement the condensed work week. It is clear that all employees in the organization suffer work burnout as indicated by the reduced productivity. A discussion with the CEO is necessary as she will need his support when implementing the plan. Some sections of employees will see it as a way of cutting them off before they can understand that the policy is meant to improve their overall performance (Burke, 2010).
Lisa was the Human Resource generalist before the promotion and has, therefore, interacted with the workers. ...

Acknowledgements

The research was supported by [name of foundation] who provided the information on the company present and past. I would like to thank [name] for assistance with the information, sharing and evaluation the process of strategy building, sharing the ideas about the built strategy and telling what was done before to develop the company.
I would also like to show my gratitude to [name] who gave some precious comments about the work of the company that helped to process the research and work out some ideas of improvement.

Approval Sheet

Executive Summary
The case study of the Golden Horizon Placement Agency ...

Introduction:

After going through the case scenarios it could be mentioned here that in order to run election campaigns smoothly, both Donald Drumph and Hillarity Clanton adopted unethical approaches in their own way. While Drumphs approaches were stark and affected the office environment, Clanton approached in a subtle manner, however considered utilising humanitarian issues to improve her position in the eyes of the voters.

An analysis of the situation and ethical consideration:

Drumph, the aspiring political candidate decided on recruiting women assistant for handling his campaigning activities. In this respect his unethical approaches towards women could be noticed prominently. He rejected all three women applicants on various unethical ...

Solid State Drives (SSD) are storage devices that have solid state memory, emulate a hard disk drive to store data, and uses hard disk drive (HDD) interfaces as well as Non-HDD interfaces. CPU performances have increased due to multi-core architecture, but HDD performance has stalled due to mechanical parts. Due to this, they have become bottlenecks while accessing data. An SSD with NAND flash memory can improve access speeds.

Advantages of SSDs

SSDs are very expensive. However, due to the benefits that are offered by the SSDs, more and more enterprises are considering the use of SSDs over HDDs. The SSDs offer ...

The primary issue at hand is that of corporate personhood – ever since Citizens United v. SEC in 2010, corporate entities are allowed to spend money to exercise their free speech, ostensibly guaranteed to them by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. However, the dilemma lies in whether or not corporations are people. Is it fair, right or accurate to allow a corporation (essentially a collection of individuals with a great amount of capital and spending power) the exact same rights as an individual American citizen? Do corporations have the right to act as moral agents, and use ...

1. The Supply and Demand for Employees and Implication for businesses
Multinationals attract and select the right talent to ensure continual success (Fowler, 2005). This is because the multinational companies rely on the expertise and abilities of employees in innovating and translating the reducing costs and increasing the profit margins. Some of the multinationals such as IBM attracts qualified people with technical skills and knowledge. For example, IBM engages in a televised match with one of its brand during a symposium where students interact with the brand. The large corporations lure college students to consider a budding career at the firm. ...

1. One of the essential actions that seems to be unethical and that leads the employees to involve in unethical behavior is the decision of CEO who allows himself to be influenced by Dale, an experienced person. Dale suggests that the appointment of an ombudsman and delay of the training related to the new open-door policy until the completion of the existing HR programs. To apply the policies without having proper training and without a representative person who would supervise the policies seem to be unethical because the employees do not know the policies, they are not given the training ...

A civil suit brought for violation of Title VII of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and constructive discharge in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

Facts of the Case:

Andrew Terry, the plaintiff, is a white male who began working for the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) in New York as a Special Agent in 1976 aged 30. When he was over 40 years old, he was not selected for a vacant position of supervisory criminal investigator. He was not even on the “Best Qualified List” (BQL), even though he had 17 years experience compared with the younger African-American candidate with ...

Human Resource Management

Summary
This case study is narrates the hiring process Benton Dickinson, a large medical research device company that failed to perform a background check on an applicant they hired to be the company’s director. Seymour Schlager was the applicant, and he had an impressive resume and qualifications. He was on hired on the spot because the hiring managers of Benton Dickinson were so impressed with the skills and qualification that he showed on his resume and they failed to do a background check on the applicant. Schlager did not include in his application that he was convicted for attempted murder ...

Job based interviews are always difficult to conduct and difficult to understand as well . There are two parties involved in a single interview and both of the parties have to be vigilant and effective as far as completing the duties at their parts . Different authors of the world have possessed different concepts about the Job based interviews and scenarios and according to majority of them, it is vital for interviewee to have regular feedback with the interviewer and should make a report on them. It is not matter that a person is selected or rejected, but the thing which has importance is ...

Q1. What should the salesperson’s role and objectives be under the new concept?

According to a new concept, salespersons were not only responsible for the product sales, but also liable for the management of the system and, therefore, for the management of profits at the retail level. The system aims to improve the profit of customers and increase company’s revenues. For this purpose, the company must have a thorough knowledge of customers’ operations and product groups. These salespersons are the key persons who can collect this information while selling the products and services. They can analyze customers’ operations and the evaluate demands of particular products and services. Previously, the salespersons were selling individual ...

Organization and Management of a Health Care Facility

While providing quality patient care has always been an essential objective of health care organizations, fiscal results have long been the criteria for measuring success. Hospitals are required to construct the authority abilities required to drive change, manage individuals, give optimal care, and provide results in the organization.

The Board of Directors in Mycare Health Services is the hospital’s most senior managerial team. It is answerable for designing and planning policy and monitoring management. Members of the Board of Directors are the public representatives, and are hired by a public organization owned by a retired judge. One-third of the Board's ...

Introduction

The selection process is a critical stage in the hiring process. It is critical because getting the candidate with the right skills is crucial for any company. It is hard to identify the candidate with the company fit that will be suitable to work for the company. This is hard to achieve because of the effort that many candidates will show in order to be considered as fit candidates for the positions which are advertised. This paper will focus on the selection strategy that Zappos use in order to get the right candidates to fill the positions that have been ...

Question 1

The interview strategy used by the firm was not right for a firm of such caliber. It shows carelessness of the firm management as well as of the interviewing panel. The use of such questions, that are more attacking to an individual than trying to find out their qualification for the post, shows negligence and carelessness. The firm should have primarily focused or given priority to finding out Maria’s qualification and ask other relevant questions that pertain to the job specification. Since the firm deals with environmental protection issues, it would have been more effective if the panel had ...

The OHS solution being a company which operates on the basis of the corporation act is managed by three to four directors of which three of them being Emma who is the accountant director, Des who is an occupational health and safety Director and Satish who has specialized In information technology and is also a director who runs the business IT sector. The company went further to employ a friend of Des Ying who works as a non-executive director having varied roles in the OHS company . Ying is also is the director of the support Pty Ltd. The Pty limited acts as a guarantor ...

Introduction

Deyun Meng (pseudonym only), a tourist, is a 37-year old doctoral candidate. I met her while waiting for a taxi on my way home. She has been here in the US for barely two (2) weeks to visit a sick relative. I told her if I could observe and interview her for my case study project in developmental psychology. I explained to her the purpose of my project and gave her the participant consent form. She answered affirmatively. The next day, we spent nearly one-and-a-half (1 and ½) hours in a café near her relative’s residence. Deyun ethnic background is Chinese. She has been a ...

1). If I was using the archival method to archival method to conduct “research on sex differences in emails,” I would not have to collect data from emails, the required data from the emails would already be available. Since the data would already be collected, it would not have to be reviewed. Moreover, the men and women would have given their permission to use their data in research during the creation of the archive. Above all, if I use the archival method, I would not be able to introduce changes in the behavior of the participating men and women, ...