Human Resources: Criteria Selection

Assignment: Criteria Selection

When an organization looks to develop its talent pool, it wants to select talent that will be a good fit. An organization’s criteria for potential talent might be a strong academic background, years of experience, communication skills, people skills, computer skills, or language proficiency, to name a few. Different organizations have varying criteria they want their potential employees to possess.

For this week’s Application Assignment, you will select an organization with which you are familiar or that offers easily accessible public information.

In a paper, address the following:

What are five criteria you might use if you were recruiting the best talent for the talent pool of the organization you have chosen?

Why did you select those criteria?

Does this process differ when looking for leadership vs. nonleadership positions?

Is it better to recruit leadership internally or externally?

Be sure to support your responses with references to the topic. APA format.

I have chosen an international retail store giant which operates several stores in my hometown. The organization has several working departments which are divided into Purchasing, logistics, warehousing, supply, retail, management, information technology, and accounting. All the departments are crucial for the smooth running of the stores while any other services that the stores might require are outsourced from other companies.

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