To: Virginia Flanders
From: Wenyuan Liu
Date: July 30, 2012
Re: Set formal standards for hiring process
Hathaway Jones is targeting to hire best employees without losing potentially great employees. It is hard to find out a person’s characters by just looking through the resumes. In order to improve this situation, to build a regulated online information searching system is very important. It could help the company achieves their goal easier and understand their employees well.
Seeking values
The Hathaway Jones should look for the conditions in online searching such as people’s lifestyle, and bad behaviors. It is hard to find these aspects from paperwork. Moreover, to know these values of a person will help the company fit their employees into their organizational culture better and put them at the right position.
Seeking for personal lifestyle
The company can search on applicant’s personal lifestyle first. Optimistic personal lifestyle can encourage the whole company and bring passion. Looking at applicants’ photos will be a good way seeking for their lifestyles.
To illustrate that, if the person has many negative photos of smoking all the time on his social medias, then he may not qualified to represent the company’s corporate image. Hathaway Jones needs healthy personal lifestyles of their employees.
Seeking for bad behaviors
The company needs to look for applicant’s bad behaviors because how employees act decide the company’s reputation and help offer a steady operation atmosphere inside company. The company could use facebook as the social media to check the photos of the applicants. Meanwhile, the company needs to set up the timeline as recently time period of these applicants’ photo.
If the applicant has bad behaviors as obsessive to sex, alcoholic or addicted to drug using, it will carry harmful influences to the company. These facts showed how necessary the company should look for applicant’s bad behavior in the searches.
Searching format
By providing efficiently cost-wise searches, in order to help the company minimize the cost, instead of searching everyone, the company could use online searching system for those who are qualified after the first interview. Therefore it could save a lot of time and money during the process.
In addition,for searching uniformly, in order to achieve the maximum marginal utility of online searching,the company could format the searching system by using same websites for every applicant to keep the opportunity equal and combine online information and resume information together after the process. Despite that, they could consider leave a face to faceinterview chance for the applicants who has bad impressions in online information system so that they could get a chance to explain.
Manage information
The company might get huge amount of information varies from all these social medias. Arrange them in an appropriate way decide the process is successful or not.
Information could managed by:
- Divide information into positive/negative categories
- Avoid discrimination or judge by online information only
- Give right position for right person
- Privacy issues, and keep information secured and not published
Manage the information by the steps above would help the company figure out what they are looking for and eliminate the chance that they will miss potentially great employees.
Online searches are very popular in the companies’ hiring process nowadays. It provided another side of information for the applicants about who they really are and gives the company positive effect by giving the right position to those who fits in the company’s organizational culture. However, both the company and their employees need to be protected from online searching from outsiders as well. Therefore, the negative issues such as privacy and receptiveness come with online searching system is very important and it needs the company to take care of.