Recruitment Assignment
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Assessment: Recruitment Assignment.
Unit: Human Resource Management.
Assessment Brief: As a HR Manager, you have decided to recruit a personal assistant for Organisation ‘X’. For designing the HR file, you will create a want ad for the position and draft 10 interview questions for screening the applicants. The interview questions will be graded as per the rubric provided below. Ensure that you use the requirements of the rubric to prepare the want Ad and interview questions.
Assessment Brief
As a HR Manager, you have decided to recruit a personal assistant for Organisation ‘X’. For designing the HR file, you will create a want ad for the position and draft 10 interview questions for screening the applicants. The interview questions will be graded as per the rubric provided below. Ensure that you use the requirements of the rubric to prepare the want Ad and interview questions.
Total Mark
57
Weighting
10%
Students are advised that any submissions past the due date incur a 10% penalty per day, calculated from the total mark e.g. a task marked out of 40 will incur a 4 mark penalty per day.
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ASSESSMENT 03
Recruitment assignment
Student Name:______________________ Student ID:___________________________
Your assignment will be assessed on the extent to which it meets each of the following criteria. Only one of the available marking options is to be chosen for each criterion.
THROUGHOUT = 3 FREQUENTLY = 2 SOMETIMES = 1 RARELY = 0
The total mark (57) will be converted into 10 as per the weight of the assessment.
WANT AD:
THROUGHOUT (3) FREQUENTLY (2) SOMETIMES (1) RARELY (0) STYLISTIC CRITERIA
Ad is highly professional and projects a favourable ‘corporate image’ (3 Marks)
Ad uses short sentences and familiar words that are action oriented (3 Marks)
Shows flawless editing for grammar, syntax and punctuation, spelling.
(3 Marks)
Content is sequenced logically and in an engaging manner (3 Marks)
Ad has exemplary creative appeal that sets it apart from other advertisements with good copy layout, visual balance, visual tension, and contrast (3 Marks)
Comments:
Clear, Concise and Creative (3) Somewhat Clear, Concise and Creative(2) Vague, not fully developed (1) Missing (0) CONTENT RELATED CRITERIA
Ad contains all relevant information about the position and organization, including:
Job title (3 Marks)
Working conditions
(3 Marks)
a clear description of the job (3 Marks)
your ‘organizational and work’ culture (3 Marks)
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major skills, competencies, and educational requirements (3 Marks)
training offered (3 Marks)
career and personal requirements (3 Marks)
career and personal development possibilities
(3 Marks)
location of the job (3 Marks)
salary, benefits, and other
(3 Marks)
? incentives
travel and/or other requirements (3 Marks)
Comments:
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: Questions relevant, elicit applicant’s ability to meet requirements of position as identified in ad Clearly and directly – Highly Creative Throughout (3) Generally Clear, Direct, Creative (2) Somewhat vague, indirect on occasion (1) Unrelated at times, indirectly (0)
3 behavioural questions (3 Marks)
3 situational questions (3 Marks)
3+ personal questions (3 Marks)
Comments: