Introduction
The Wilson Brothers Limited is a Canadian Company that produces and provides the prepared food in the market. The two brothers Bob and John with the efficient skills and abilities have developed the business towards exponential growth. The company developed many of its plants in Europe and the USA and exported products in various other international markets such as China and Japan. However, apart from the successful business across the international market and various production plants, the company faces various challenges and issues in day to day to business operations. For now, the company is looking for the new strategies and policies for HR to deal with some specific challenges. For this purpose, it is working to address various issues in the HR policies of the company such as lack of job description and job appraisal. HR director of the company is going to provide the job advertisement for Administrative Assistant and the recruitment strategy to solve the issues face by the company and to make the company achieve competitive advantage (Collins & Jian 3).
Job Advertisement
Job Medium/Venue
Before developing an advertisement, it is important to decide the medium and venue for the job advertisement, so that the language and other elements of the ad can be chosen accordingly. For this purpose, HR director is going to use The Internet as the medium forjob advertisement of an Administrative Assistant. Within the Internet medium, the HR director is going to post its ad on social media venue, mainly LinkedIn.
Job Ad
Job Opportunity and Careers at “The Wilson Brothers Limited”
Job term of office
The Wilson Brothers Limited is an international company that manufactures and provides prepared food from various plants in different locations and in different countries such as Canada, U.S. and UK. It is the successful company that is going to facilitate the opportunity to the talented people to join its workplace. It is for now looking for Administrative Assistant to develop reports to the Director HR manager and to provide Administrative, financial, personnel, and clerical support to the Divisional Manager and unit staff. It is also required to develop reports and to gather information from different sources.
Job Requirements
The candidate must have excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
The candidate must have skills of keyboarding i.e. 60 wpm
The candidate must have the educational background associated with Administration management
1 to 3 year years of minimum experience in administrative field in medium or large size workplaces
The candidate must be client service oriented
Must have Excellency in interpersonal skills
The interested candidates can send their Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applications to the email address . The candidates must mention the job title on the subject of mail as “Administration Assistant”. Before applying and mailing applications, please make sure to meet the job requirements and criteria. The salary for the position ranges between $30,000 and $40,000 that will be decided based on the skills and competencies of the candidate such as level of qualification, work experience, personal skills etc.
The shortlisted candidates will be called for in person interviews. The phone calls will not be entertained.
Recruitment strategy
The company is going to post its ad on the internet, in general, social media in particular as the company is going to hire the external candidates for Administrative Assistant. The state and trends of Canadian labor market havebeen changed since 2006 both in terms of improvements as well as the risks. The labor market of Canada that is intended to target is required to have skilled, flexible, mobile and competent workers to deal with the external challenges. The rate of qualification is very high in Canada as compare to other developed market having a minimum of Post-School Education. The employment rate is improving, and the unemployment rate is lowering down in Canada as compare to other OECD Countries (Department of Finance Canada 3&21).
According to the report, most of the companies and organizations in Canada are involved in retaining and developing the internal employees of the company rather than hiring external employees because of the high competition in the market. However, Wilson Brothers Limited is now aimed to target the external candidates for the flexibility, mobility and highly skilled candidates for Administrative Assistant job. The external candidates targeting is an essential strategy to attract the most talented employees from the market. Collins & Jian (6) have stated that the major goal of recruitment is to attract the highest skilled and qualified candidates from the large pool. Therefore, the company is going to target external candidates.
Resume Description
For the selection for such position in “The Wilson Brothers Limited”, the candidates must have the ability to achieve the following targets and to play the following roles and responsibilities:
The candidates must be able to arrange traveling, maintain agenda, coordinates meetings, calls for conferences and arranging appointments on behalf of the HR manager as well as to coordinates the meetings for unit staff. For this purpose, the candidate must have qualification background associated with administration management and at least one year of experience in the medium or large size firm.
Filing, binding, logging and forwarding of the reports and follow-ups for ensuring that the reports and responses are preparing with the manners of the time.
The candidates with no experience and no such educational background will be considered as poor candidates having poor resumes for the specific job entitled. Apart from the specific skills related to the underlying field, the candidate is required to have additional skills of interpersonal communication, flexibility, dependability and client service orientation and knowledge of Microsoft office.
Works Cited
Collins, Christopher J., and Jian Han. "Exploring applicant pool quantity and quality: The effects of early recruitment practice strategies, corporate advertising, and firm reputation." Personnel Psychology 57.3 (2004): 685-717.
Medved, JP. “Top 15 Recruiting Statistics for 2014.” 2014. Online. 23 May. 2016. <http://blog.capterra.com/top-15-recruiting-statistics-2014/>
