Write a 5–7-page recruitment and selection plan based on best practices and approaches for either Java Corp. or an organization of your choice.

Attracting top talent that fits the organization is of considerable importance. The ability to recruit and select talented people is 

Recruitment and Selection

• Headworth, A. (2015). Social media recruitment: How to successfully integrate social media into recruitment strategy. London, UK: Kogan Page.
  • Chapter 2, “Recruitment Using Social Media.”
• Lundqvist, S. (2018, May–August). Focus on the most critical demands in IT project manager recruitment. Journal of Modern Project Management, 70–77.
• Miller, T. (2017). Successful interviewing: A talent-focused approach to successful recruitment and selection. New York, NY: Business Expert Press.
  • This e-book features interviewing techniques to select the best talented people.
• Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2020). Fundamentals of human resource management (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link.
  • Chapter 5, “Planning for and Recruiting Human Resources.”
  • Chapter 6, “Selecting Employees and Placing Them in Jobs.”
• Nursing – advanced nursing; studies in the area of advanced nursing reported from Ghent University (Recruiting nurses through social media: Effects on employer brand and attractiveness). (2017, June 30). Health & Medicine Week.
• Sackett, T. (2018). The nuts and bolts of a great recruiter. HR Magazine, 63(5), 83–85, 87, 89. one of the foundational skills for any human resource (HR) professional and one that will be utilized throughout your career.

 For this assessment, research the topics of recruitment and selection. Using one of the scenarios below, analyze best practices and approaches for these key HR functions. A minimum of three resources are required to support your work. 

Option 1

You are the new HR manager for Java Corp, which specializes in cold coffee and iced tea. Java Corp. is small but quickly growing. There are 300 employees in the company and the organization has a history of a stable workforce with very limited turnover. Recently, the company gained over 200 employees and there are a number of supervisory and managerial positions that need to be filled. The CEO has asked you to work with her to fill positions based on an organizational structure she has just created.

New supervisors and managers are needed in IT (one), marketing (one), operations (two), and security (one). Each of these areas has seasoned internal employees eager to compete for jobs, though some may not be as qualified as external candidates. Develop a recruitment and selection plan that is best suited for this situation and make appropriate recommendations to the CEO.

Instructions

For this assessment, develop a recruitment and selection plan for the chosen organization. In your plan:

• Analyze the role of the recruiter.
  • What unique opportunities and challenges are present for the selected company?
• Outline a recruitment process to meet organizational objectives for the selected company.
  • Include a step-by-step process for the selection of supervisors and managers.
  • Include the best practices that support your recommended best recruitment plan. Consider the use of social media, types of employment tests, and how to conduct effective interviews, for example.
  • Include policies that make the positions more attractive.
• Explain an organization’s legal considerations for recruitment and selection functions.
• Analyze how to measure success of the chosen selection method for the selected company
  • What metrics would you use for your selected company?

DIRECTIONS: Answer ONE of the below essay questions in an organized, substantive, well-developed essay. 

READ ALL OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS THOROUGHLY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO WRITE THE ESSAY!
For this essay assignment, you may ONLY use the following: 

(1) The Give Me Liberty! textbook.

(2) The American Perspectives e-reader (you will be required to incorporate at least ONE primary source from American Perspectives).  

(3) My recorded lectures and your notes on those lectures. 

(4) The supplemental podcast episodes that I assigned in the Canvas modules. 

You may NOT refer to or use ANY outside sources, including (but not limited to) other books, websites, YouTube videos, and online study/cheating resources such as Course Hero, Chegg, and Quizlet (which I check regularly). Even if properly cited, the use of ANY outside source will result in an automatic point deduction of AT LEAST 10 percentage points (and possibly more, depending on the severity of the offense, with a possible score of ZERO on the assignment). You have more than enough materials to complete this assignment without the assistance of any outside resources. 

A successful essay will consist of SIX substantive paragraphs: an introduction, four body paragraphs (each consisting of AT LEAST 10 to 15 sentences), and a conclusion. This is what is expected in each section of the essay:

1. The introduction should be at least four to five sentences and should introduce the topic and set the stage for the essay. This is an argument-driven essay, so most importantly, the introduction MUST include a strong thesis statement (argument) that directly responds to the central question posed by the essay prompt. The thesis statement must be UNDERLINED so I can easily find it.

2. Each body paragraph must address the required key terms listed in the essay prompt. Each numbered set corresponds to a body paragraph (the key terms in the first numbered set should be addressed in the first body paragraph, the key terms in the second numbered set should be addressed in the second body paragraph, and so on). You must address   ALL of the listed key terms—there is no choice between the key terms. Your body paragraph must fully define each key term, addressing the following items: WHO or WHAT the key term is, WHEN the event happened (may not be applicable to all key terms), WHERE the event happened (may not be applicable to all key terms), and the HISTORICAL significance of the key term (why is it important?). For each key term, you should include as much detail as you possibly can. You must also tie each key term back to the larger essay prompt and your thesis statement. Each and everybody paragraph MUST make connections to the larger essay prompt in order to reinforce your thesis statement, since this is an argument-driven essay. Do not simply define the key terms as if you are writing short answer key term definitions.

3. The conclusion should be four to five sentences, and it should wrap up the essay by restating the thesis statement and summarizing the evidence reinforcing your argument. 

IMPORTANT: While you can use all of the above-listed course materials to write this essay, you MUST substantively use and cite at least ONE of the primary sources that I have assigned this semester from the American Perspectives .The primary source that you choose must be relevant to the essay prompt and must be used in at least one of the body paragraphs to reinforce your thesis statement. You should be thoughtful as to how you incorporate this primary source—choose one that can help you prove your thesis statement. 

There is no required page or word count—this essay will be graded on the substance of each section of the essay. The essay must meet the following formatting requirements:

1. The essay must be double-spaced.

2. The font must be 12-point Times New Roman.

3. The margins must be 1-inch on all sides.

4. The essay must be saved as a Word (.doc or .docx) file. No other file formats will be accepted on Canvas.

5. You MUST include Chicago style footnote citations throughout the essay showing where you got your information from. Nothing should be left uncited! See below for citation instructions. Although you need footnotes, you do NOT need a works cited page.

CITATIONS: You must use Chicago style FOOTNOTES (no MLA or APA parenthetical citations). If you do not know how to insert footnotes into a Word document, see the following website: https://libguides.uco.edu/c.php?g=360142&p=5809006

Please use the following formats for your footnote citations: –

For lecture material, use the following footnote format: 

Justina Okei, “Title of Lecture,” Date of Lecture. –

For Give Me Liberty! material, use the following footnote format:

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! (Sixth Edition), Page Number(s).-

For American Perspectives (primary source) material, use the following footnote format

: Author of Primary Source, “Title of Primary Source.” American Perspectives, Page Number(s).

–For podcasts, use the following footnote format:

“Title of Podcast Episode,” Name of Podcast, URL Address.

IMPORTANT: If your essay is not properly cited, you will lose a SUBSTANTIAL number of points. If you have any questions about citations, please do not hesitate to reach out and ask.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Lastly, do not plagiarize any part of this essay or engage in any other academic dishonesty (this includes working together through GroupMe). Your essay will be run through Turnitin, which will catch most instances of plagiarism. In addition, I am extremely vigilant about checking the usual places students go to get information (such as Chegg), and it is safe to say that you WILL be caught. If you are caught plagiarizing any part of this essay or engaging in any other form of academic dishonesty, you will receive a ZERO on the assignment with NO opportunity for a redo. You will also be reported to the school for academic dishonesty via the Maxient system, and college-level disciplinary action may follow. There are NO exceptions to this policy. Plagiarism also includes “accidental” plagiarism (such as paraphrasing the textbook or one of my lectures too closely), so be VERY careful if you paraphrase a source!

Essay Prompts (Choose ONE)1.

1 During the first decades of the seventeenth century, England developed several distinct colonies. Each colonial region faced different and unique experiences. Write an essay that compares and contrasts the colonial experiences in the Chesapeake (Virginia) and New England (Massachusetts). In your essay, you need to explain why the English settled these areas and who went there, what the colonists’ expectations were, how well the realities of settlement matched those expectations, and what their societies looked like, and how the colonists made their money. Your thesis statement (argument) must address the following central question: In what major way(s) were the colonial experiences in the Chesapeake and New England similar and/or different? You must use the following key terms: (1) Virginia Company / Jamestown; (2) John Rolfe / Tobacco, (3) Puritans / Great Migration; and (4) Salem Witch Trials / Anne Hutchinson.

2. Throughout the seventeenth century, colonial Virginians (Chesapeake colonists) perpetually faced a labor problem: finding enough workers to grow and harvest their cash crops. Write an essay that fully explains how Virginians worked throughout the 1600s to resolve their labor problem, from indentured servitude to slavery. Your thesis statement (argument) must address the following central question: How and why did the colonies shift from societies with a few slaves to societies dominated by slave labor, and how did this shift impact ideas about race in the colonies? You must use the following key terms: (1) Anthony Johnson; (2) Indentured Servants / Bacon’s Rebellion; (3) Rice and Indigo / Middle Passage; and (4) South Carolina / Georgia / Stono Rebellion.

3. At the turn of the 18th century, a series of events occurred that created tension between the British colonists in North America and England. Write an essay that evaluates the lead-up to the American Revolution and independence. Your thesis statement (argument) must address the following central question: Do you think that America’s declaration of independence and subsequent American Revolution was inevitable? At what point do you think there was no turning back? You must use the following key terms: (1) Enlightenment / Seven Years War; (2) Stamp Act / Tea Act / Boston Tea Party; (3) Coercive (Intolerable) Acts / First and Second Continental Congresses; and (4) Thomas Paine and Common Sense.

There is a lot of news about how large corporations evade taxes. Businesses commit tax evasion the same way individuals do: they under-report income, overstate deductions, claim too many tax credits, and sometimes hide money through laundering or illegal accounting schemes.

The Tax Gap is the difference between how much the IRS should collect and how much it actually collects; in 2010, the Tax Gap was $458 billion.

However, small business owners are actually the largest single contributor to the Tax Gap. Before the recession, a quarter of sole proprietors reported losses; among those, 70% were estimated to be noncompliant. 

•Under-reporting of business income and self-employment tax by small business owners accounts for $190 billion, or 41% of the $458 billion Tax Gap. 

•Corporate under-reporting accounted for $41 billion or 9% of the Tax Gap. 

•Large corporations (whose assets exceed $10 million) accounted for $28 billion, or only 6.1% of the $458 billion Tax Gap.

In summary, small business owners and the self-employed under-reported $190 billion, over six and a half times more than the $28 billion under-reported by large corporations! 

•After reading these statistics, do you find it surprising that small businesses are under-reporting income so much more than large corporations?  

•Explain why these figures may (or may not) surprise you. 

•Why do you think small business owners are under-reporting so much more than the large corporations? 

•Address these requirements with no less than 450 words.

Instructions

Waterways (Chapter 27) 

For this assignment, you will apply what you have learned  from the unit      lesson and required unit resources. The Waterways (WP27) case is  located on      page 27-35 of the textbook. 

Waterways puts much emphasis on cash flow when it  plans  for capital      investments. The company chose its discount rate of 8% based  on the  rate of      return that it must pay its owners and creditors. Using that  rate,  Waterways     then uses different methods to determine the best decisions for  making      capital  outlays. 

This year, Waterways is considering buying five new  backhoes to replace the    backhoes it now has. The new backhoes are faster, cost  less to run, provide     for  more accurate trench digging, have comfort features  for  the operators,     and  have 1-year maintenance agreements to go with them. The  old  backhoes are    working just fine, but they do require considerable  maintenance.  The backhoe    operators are very familiar with the old backhoes and  would need to  learn     some  new skills to use the new backhoes. 

The following  information is available to use in deciding  whether to      purchase the new  backhoes. 

  Information   Old Backhoes  New Backhoes   Purchase cost when new $90,000    $200,000   Salvage value now    $42,000    Investment in major  overhaul needed in next year  $55,000      Salvage value in 8 years   $15,000  $90,000    Remaining  life   8 years   8 years      Net cash flow generated each     year    $30,425    $43,900  

Instructions: 

• In the following methods, evaluate whether to purchase the new equipment                  or to overhaul the old equipment. (Hint: For the old machine, the          initial         investment is the cost of the overhaul. For the new    machine,       subtract the         salvage value of the old machine to    determine the   initial     cost of the         investment.) 
  • Use the net present value method for buying new or keeping the old.                                     
  • Use the payback method for each choice. (Hint: For the old machine,                                  evaluate the payback of an overhaul.) 
  • Compare the profitability index for each choice. 
  • Compare the internal rate of return for each choice to the required 8%                                  discount rate. 
• Are there any intangible benefits or negatives that would influence this                  decision? 
• What decision would you make, and why? 

Write  your responses  to these questions in a Word document. Your paper      should be a  minimum of two  pages in length.  You are not required to support     your assignment with outside  sources; however,  if you do, adhere to APA   Style   when creating citations and  references.