Tanglewood 3

Christina Campbell

HRM 710: Recruitment and Selection

Tanglewood Case 3

Dr. Sayeed Islam

1. Generate a recruiting guide for the store associate job.

Tanglewood’s turnover rate is fairly stable turnover. This would continue to keep the recruiting efforts high. Tanglewood’s recruiting methods vary by regions.

Below is a recruiting guide to follow: Recruiting guide for Store Associates

Position: Store Associate

Reports to: shift Leader/ General Manager

Qualifications: All are welcome to apply

Relevant labor market: Western Washington

Timeline: None

Activities to undertake to source well qualified candidates: Newspaper Advertising

Job Fairs

College Career Fairs

Job Posting on Company Website

Employee Referrals

Post openings to company’s website

Request employee referrals

Employ a staffing agency

Job fairs

Staff members involved: HR Managers, Department managers, and Shift leaders

Budget: $2,000-6000

Job Targets

Based on the available positions, the targets for this recruiting campaign are candidates who are currently in high school, fresh out of high school and current college students. The reason for this, there is a large hiring pool when it comes to students in high school and coming out of high school especially for summer jobs. The target for current college students is due to the fact that college graduates are less likely to accept such an entry-level position, as their aim is to get into management. As mentioned before, those candidates are not willing to put in the “time” prior to getting to a management position and would rather look for a career path within their degree field.

Media: Media advertising will give exposure to all types of candidates, from experienced to non-experienced. Jobs can be advertised in all sorts of places from newspaper ads to job postings online on job sites like Careerbuilder.com and Monster.com. The down side to this type of advertisement is that it involves quite a bit of legwork to...