Month: April 2020

If I came across a company I liked that didn’t support my ethnicity, culture, or specific religious beliefs it would be a little bit of a shock to me.  Giving business to a company that doesn’t have the same moral foundations as me would be very difficult to support.  My emotions towards that company would change and most likely result in me not giving them any of my business.

My decision to support the company would be based on a few criteria.  Is it a company (like Nike) where I already have a lot of clothes from?  If so, I may not do anymore business with them but I still may wear the clothes that I already possess.  Is it a company that has a lot of substitutes?  Maybe it is a food company where I can substitute the brand but still have the same product.  Essentially, my decision to support the company depends on a wide arrange of questions. 

If this was a company I wanted to work for in the future it would definitely make me not want to apply there or work for the company.  Working for a company that openly discriminates against a strong value I have would be a hard culture to interact in.  It would make me focus more on the values of the company (which would be negative from my viewpoint) than make me a good employee.  I would be doing the company a disfavor working for them.  Therefore, it would be in my best interest and the company’s best interest to not work for the company, because I would be robbing them of a passionate employee that makes them money.

Claim: Recruitment and selection is a company’s most important function.

Counterpoint:  The most important function of a company is to create value to a customer;  without a paying customer there is no business.

Organizations deicide to allocate more resources towards marketing and product design rather than using the same resources to do a great job in employee recruitment and selection for many reasons.  One reason is that marketing and product design is an observable artifact that customers and managers can observe.  They can also observe sales data after marketing a new product, and they can get feedback from customers on new products.  Organizations that focus more on building a better product and developing more efficient processes will be better in the long run.

A strength of an organization not prioritizing recruitment and selection is that they can focus on the business by creating value for customers.  If a company spends all of their time recruiting and selecting employees they can lose sight of the overall goal of the business.  However, a weakness to focusing on other business activities besides recruitment and selection is cost.  The cost of hiring a person that does not do a good job can result in millions of dollars for just ten workers hired.  For example, the failed cost for a hire can be around $2 Million dollars because you have to account for paying the employee, using resources to search for the employee, and lost business because of less workers.  Also, a bad employee that creates a lot of mistakes will force managers to correct those mistakes rather than adding more value to the business.

Week 1

The last job I applied to was over one year ago. I had met with a few managers that had asked me behavioral and skill related questions regarding the position of a supply/ demand analyst intern. I was nervous for the interview because I did not know the questions they were going to ask me, however, it turned out that the manager was an alumni of OSU, a resident assistant (like me at the time), and lived in the same dorm as I did, 2o years earlier. This being said we had a strong connection in the beginning. The second manager that interviewed me focused more on hard skills that I had possessed. Some included excel, PowerPoint, SAP, and basic information regarding Solid State Drives or SSDs. Overall, I prepared for this interview by reviewing the company’s website and reaching out to my network. At my surprise they offered me the position while I was on the phone with the manager.

A few months later I started working for the company and got adjusted to work life. My experience at times were very stressful and difficult, however, I had a manager that believed in me and allowed me to learn from mistakes. If it wasn’t for the manager and peers, I wouldn’t have liked the work as much. I was there for 7 months and treated every day like an interview with the idea to get a full time job from my internship.

In the end they offered me a full time position after graduation. While I worked hard, the process of getting the job via a ‘7 month interview’ allowed me to make sure the job, people, and culture was for me. It also allowed my manager to make sure I was the right person for the job.

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