Public Relations And Marketing

You have been asked by Johnsons Care Company to advise them on selecting a Graduate to fill the post of Public Relations and Marketing Assistant. You will design a selection process that will help them select the best candidate.

Write a report documenting a selection process that could be used to select this person. You should give evidence for your recommendations.

Your report should cover:

1. The knowledge, skills, attitudes and other characteristics (KSAOs) you will assess and the methods that will be used. This section of the report should be no longer than 15% of the report.
2. Select appropriate methods to evidence the KSAOs
3. You should justify the methods you have chosen considering reliability, validity, fairness and utility. There are marks for using these.
4. You should evidence your report with material drawn from the module and from wider journal articles to support your justifications. Introduction
Hiring personnel at times is not an easy task. The hiring team or the human resource specialists undergo many challenges while identifying the right individual to fill a certain post. One of the reasons that make such process overwhelming is the fact that there are many job seekers and once the position is advertised, the slot receives many applications requests. However, not all of the applicants perform the same if given the tasks. Some might experience a challenge, while others lack the right attitudes for the job. Another factor that causes challenges is the organizational need to hire the best suitor (Harter, and Blacksmith, 2010). Every firm would want to hire those individuals who will give the best outcome for the company. Since it is not easily apparent to point out such individual, firms choose to undertake a process of scrutiny, which is tedious but ultimately gives good results. This is the challenge at hand with the Johnson Care Company.

Johnson Care Company needs to hire personnel to fill the post of Public Relations and Marketing Assistant. It is one of the most critical posts in an organization and requires an individual with great proficiency in several areas. What the company now seeks is advice from a professional on how to go about the issue. Now, I would wish to give advice in the form of a report with some recommended steps to follow while hiring such an individual. Of most