How could Yahoo strengthen its internal recruiting? How would these actions strengthen corporate strategy? Use recent new about Yahoo to support your answer.

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Human Resource Management wk 3

Think of the jobs you have held. What were some of the tactics used to recruit you for these positions? What were some pros and cons for the organization of recruiting you through these methods?

You are a human resource professional at a large retail chain working to standardize the company’s design for interviewing by insuring that all interviewees for a specific job answer the same questions. The questions need to be relevant to the job and maintain equal employment opportunity. Develop three questions to include in the interview process for each of the following three jobs. For each question, state why you think it should be included.

Cashier at one of the company’s stores.

Buyer of the store’s teen clothing line.

Accounts payable clerk at company headquarters.

Read “Managing Talent: Can Yahoo Still Attract Tech Workers?” at the end of chapter five and answer the following three questions:

How could Yahoo strengthen its internal recruiting? How would these actions strengthen corporate strategy? Use recent new about Yahoo to support your answer.

Imagine that you are in charge of campus recruiting for Yahoo. At what schools would you focus your efforts and how would you work to attract potential employees? Consider current trends and events as you explain why?

  • After examining the supply of and demand for labor at Yahoo, what conclusions can be drawn?
  1. Pick two of the selection methods identified in this module and discuss, with a focus on current events, how they compare in reliability, validity, ability to generalize, utility, and compliance to laws.

Request for support/assistance from your manager (at least two things s/he could do to assist you). 7. Provide the two biggest barriers you see to accomplishing your goals.

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Assignment: Globalization and the Performance Management Process

One of the most important things an employee can do for him or herself, is to create a PDP or IDP, and to keep it up to date while working and building a career. A PDP is a way to set a goal for skill building, promotions, and career planning, to ensure that continuous improvement occurs. Working with a manager or coach on a PDP can also signal to that manager that an employee cares about doing well, and wants to move up in the organization. Your plan should include, at a minimum:

For this assignment, you will create your own personal development plan. You will use either the form found in the textbook (p. 202), which you can type into Word, or you can find one online and use it (be sure to include the reference).

Your plan should include, at a minimum:

1. Current job and desired future job (in one year, 3 years, 5 years).

2. Current list of knowledge, skills, and abilities (at least 3 each).

3. Development Plan Objectives (at least 3 defined and described).

4. Development Plan Activities (at least 3 specific activities, with dates, costs, and relevance to your

5. desired career plan).

6. Request for support/assistance from your manager (at least two things s/he could do to assist you).

7. Provide the two biggest barriers you see to accomplishing your goals.

Identify your personal and professional values and attitudes regarding the ethical situation Describe how you will ensure that you are engaged in an ethical human service practice

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I WILL NO PAY MORE THAN OFFERED DONT REQUEST..

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE…. CITE PROPERLY…. DUE 7 AM

Envision that you are a Human Services worker at the local Community Family Homeless shelter. You are preparing for the Holiday gift giving event by matching the donated gifts to your clients. You consider yourself to be an ethical professional. However, you are questioning whether it is ethical to switch the gift tag on one gift. One of the little girls at the shelter lost her favorite “American Girl” doll and has been crying about her lost doll since she and her family arrived at the shelter. Today, you see that a  “American Girl” doll gift is tagged to another child at the shelter. What do you do?

Review the Codes of Ethics and Decision-Making Models Comparative Charts and Response that you completed for Week 2.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss your ethical decision to switch the tag or not:

  • Include how you apply the ethical guidelines to make an informed ethical decision.
  • Identify your personal and professional values and attitudes regarding the ethical situation
  • Describe how you will ensure that you are engaged in an ethical human service practice

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

How would you describe and interpret the turning point or epiphany in “Sonny’s Blues”?

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Your initial post is due by midnight (11:59 PM) on Thursday and your response to your peers is due on Friday (by 11:59 PM) . You must write at least 400 words on James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”After you finish writing your response make sure to write an original title that captures the main idea you are focusing on. You want to avoid having a generic title like ‘Discussion of “Sonny’s Blues”‘.Except for the first bullet point, you can address the rest in any order you choose.Your response should not be in the form of a numbered list: use the prompts below to write at least three paragraphs incorporating the prompts into your response. In one or two sentences state yourgeneral impression of “Sonny’s Blues”, describing what you interpret to be the story’s main theme (or central idea). Plot is not just the events that happen in a story, rather it is the way the writer sequences and paces the events so as to shape our responses and interpretations. How does Baldwin use sequencing (the order in which events are related) to develop the situation, point-of-view or key ideas you think the story is trying to represent)? All plots hinge on at least one conflict. What conflictsdrive the plot of “Sonny’s Blues”? Most stories move towards a turning point (a discovery or new insight) or an epiphany(a sudden revelation of truth). How would you describe and interpret the turning point or epiphany in “Sonny’s Blues”? Somewhere in your response interpret a description of aninnerorpsychological state. Baldwin is considered one of the masters of describing the inner life of characters. Read Baldwin’s essay “The Creative Process”. What aspects of that essay do you see reflected in “Sonny’s Blues”?