Human resources Final Paper

Running Head: LABOR MARKET 1

LABOR MARKET 6

Lyndsey Burton

Labor Market

BUS 692: Strategies in Human Resource Management

Instructor: Jean Gordon

December 19, 2016

Labor Market

Google Company is a multinational company that as its headquarters in the United States. The firm majors in internet services and products. Initially, the company began with a search engine that was called backrup.com. Since 1998, the company started dealing with cloud computing, advertising technologies, software, and mobile. The company founded by Larry page and Sergey Bin and well known globally for its superior production and management. The company is also known for hiring the best candidates through an uptight process.

The Population

In every year, Google Company gets the company hires over two million applications for a job from different parts of the world and thousands of the applicants. After the application, an applicant waits for about six weeks to get the hire. Each candidate is screened by the potential boss, hiring committee and the potential colleagues. Google Company majorly relies on referrals from Googlers and its personal careers portal. The company relies on its best-networked employees to spend a lot of time sourcing for the best hires. The company has also been using Google+, LinkedIn, professional associations and alumni databases to discover more talents (Saylor, 2012).

Demographics of the Population

Google hires its workers from different parts of the world. The company has recently been working on being inclusive by eliminating any form of bias. The company ensures bias by removing during hiring through raising unconscious bias awareness. The company has also been involving its workers and recruiters on unbiasing training so as to ensure that the recruitment process is entirely inclusive. The Company believes that there is no one type of Googler hence they are always searching for individuals that can bring innovative perspective and better experience to the existing team. According to Google, they value people’s passion, curiosity and their desire to learn. The current team is great thinkers, but they are always ready to take challenges from new employees. This means that the company is always willing to hire better employees than the existing ones.

Google gives people from diverse places to apply for jobs in the enterprise directly. Ones the applicants send their applications. Before the application, the applicant should first read the qualifications needed in the job description and then choose the role that fits perfectly his/her aspirations and background. It is important for the applicants to carefully select their jobs since Google is very strict on qualifications. After the candidates send their resumes to the company, experts who are familiar with all job positions in Google Company go through their resumes. These experts are not only familiar with Google job positions, but they are also experts of resumes interpretation. The experts match the resumes after reading them with the job posts in the company and determine if a job position exists for the applicant. If the job position does not have a vacant, a note is written to the candidate assuring them of future chances. If a match of the position is found, then the recruiter's plan makes a call on the candidate so as to interview him/her more about their experiences and skills.

Levels of Education

Google Company does not concentrate more on degrees from colleges. Nevertheless, the company overwhelmed with applicants with college degrees from well-recognized institutions. This primary business focus is on experiences and skills the candidates have, rather than the level of the education of the candidates. Google Company values talent significantly and believes that a person does not need a degree to be talented. The company works hard on finding talented people more than finding well-educated people. The company does not even include college degree as a requirement in their official hiring guide. They accept and hire driven individuals with vocational learning and self-paced college courses that have the skills.

Google Company hires people that demonstrate a skill rather than expertise. The company also takes people that have cognitive ability, willing to learn and with excellent leadership skills as well as innately curiously and hire them over people that have expertise in the field but lack the above traits. College degrees are viewed in this company as the certificate of knowledge rather than a level of skills learned. Besides having a degree, a candidate in Google is checked on what he/she can do, how he/she can present an idea in public, his/her ability to create a website, ability to solve problems among other abilities. Google Company greatly values stats and also believes that logic gains with time. Google Company, therefore, encourages their candidates and employees to take training on structured-thinking that enables and encourages logical thinking. Candidates that have taken analytical training are more valued at Google Company compared to those that don’t have the training.

Rather than concentrating on the level of education more, Google also focuses more on the persistence of the candidates. The company does not value a lot a college degree because they are not able to tell if the level is attained out of smartness or out of hard work. The company values more persistent candidates willing to be molded and coached, rather than a high-achiever who is lazy. This means that in this company it is not just smartness that checks, also persistence and willingness to be better are vital. The company is not interested in expertise attained in colleges; it focuses more on skills attained. The company, therefore, does not concentrate more on the degree; it focuses more on projects completed by the candidate while in college and their performances at the internship. The company does not care much about what a student majored in while in college. It concentrates on the skills and achievements gained from the college

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Training

At Google Company, job learning values more than training courses. The platform where the recruits are taught by the experiments workers while still in the job process According to the management of this company, employees become more productive through job learning than they would do through the training course. Further, Staffs in Google Company are allowed to work on projects that are personal with a group they have come up together. This company allows its workers to have ideas with all ideas being done informally so that it does not affect the company if it fails. If the projects are successful, the employees get encouraged to grow them into a real business model. The workers are allowed to test their ideas in real jobs (Tarantola, 2015).

Conclusion

In conclusion, Google Company has become very lucky for having proper processes of hiring and training workers. Through good HR management within the organization, the workers end up bringing ideas into the company that improves the performance of the enterprise. The workers are given time to practice their ideas well.

References

Hunt, S.T. (2014). Common Sense Talent Management.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons,

Inc.

Tarantola, A. (2015). "Google's codebase is ludicrously huge for good reason." Engadget

Saylor, M. (2012). The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything. Perseus Books/Vanguard Press