Assignment.

NEW Week 5: begins the next step in our learning about HRM functions and processes -- how HR Departments plan, select, and place human resources (people) in jobs. • This week's Discussion and Assignment will cover Chapter 5. You'll learn about

Strategic HR Planning, forecasting/analyzing career fields and job categories in your interest area, and begin to understand the recruiting process.

To begin: • Please read the Introduction for Chapter 5 on pages 132-133 in your text.

((Attached)) To summarize the vignette: The way in which applicants search for a job, and get a first impression of a company, has changed with the advances in technology. Applicants get a first impression when they visit the company website, Facebook page, or interact with a recruiter through LinkedIn or Twitter. Lars Schmidt, National Public Radio director of talent acquisition, was not happy with the way the organization was portrayed on line to prospective employees and went about updating their online message. He added links to social media, video clips of employees telling about NPR’s creative culture, and updated the webpage design. Schmidt found ways to use social media to speak with the prospective applicants in real time, which increased the number of qualified applicants. This vignette about NPR provided some insight into issues of recruiting and planning human resources with the use of social media. DB Post Instructions: Part 1: Requirements. • Identify a company you would possibly like to work for some day • Visit the company's website and research the HR Department, Jobs/Careers

section, and other sections you think may apply • For your first post, submit the following information on the DB. ◦ Do you think the list is complete? Why or why not? ◦ What other social media would you suggest? Why? ◦ Share your first impression of the “careers” section on your company's

website ◦ Identify the different ways you can contact the recruiter with social media ◦ What else did you learn about the company/see on the company's website

that impressed you and makes you want to apply for a job? ! The assignment should be 200- 300 words.