Case Study

Case Study Analysis-Final

Rene Majors

COMM 215R2 Essentials of College Writing

Professor Mary Cagney

November 9, 2004

Case Study Analysis

This case is about a new campus recruiter that works for ABC, Inc. Each recruiter should have a process with guidelines to check off mandatory requirements on newly hired employees. Once guidelines are in place and enforced, the hiring process will run smoothly.

Case Study Analysis

In my opinion, I believe that the problems started when Carl's upper management let him hire 15 new trainees to start work for the company all at one time. They should not have allowed Carl to schedule them all with the same orientation date. It would have been better if someone had noticed in his department and realized that Carl has some details to work out before he is able to start orientation on the scheduled date. No one should be allowed to hire more that five people at a time unless they have approval from management or a supervisor. Since Carl was not fully trained, it would not be a good idea to try and hire 15 trainees all at once. Perhaps if someone noticed and stepped in and recommends that he takes on a smaller group, instead of trying to hire 15 trainees at one time. Since Carl was still in the learning stages and not fully trained, he was not fully aware of all the steps that are involved with the new hire process. Therefore, Carl appeared to be headed for failure.

Background

The minute Carl realized he had several problems facing him he should have notified his supervisor and the hiring manager that they may not meet the scheduled orientation date that had been set. The problems that Carl discovered was that not everyone had completed the initial new hire application. He also did not have completed transcripts for all of the new employees. Later, he discovered that the lab results had not been sent to the medical lab for the mandatory drug screening. He would possibly need to have the new trainees take the drug tests over again. He had not thought about the additional expenses that the company would incur because he was not organized. He later found out through further research that the orientation manuals were not complete and several of them had missing pages. Carl needed to take the time to make sure that he had a complete set of manuals. Once the manuals