- The key area of HR is staffing (= manpower planning). There are many issues to consider when trying to find qualified candidates.
- The choice between internal recruitment (less expensive recruitment process, boosts morale) and external recruitment (brings ideas and skills, wider selection).
- Legal issues such as equal opportunities (no discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, age, disability, etc).
- Finding the right balance between permanent, full-time employees (who provide continuity of knowledge and company culture, as well as stability for families in the local community) and other employees hired on a more flexible basis.
- Amongst the flexible staffing options are:
- Part-time staff (part-time workers) on permanent contracts. This option can include ’job-sharing’ – often of interest to a parent with a young child.
- Staff on temporary contracts, perhaps leased from an outside agency (e.g. secretaries, hotel and catering staff, students working through college, etc.). These people ’temp’ and are ’temps’ (verb and noun).
- Professional freelancers (sometimes called ’consultants’) (or portofolio workers) brought in for individual projects. Often these jobs replace ones that were previously done ’in-house’ by permament staff.
- highly skilled
- skilled
- semi-skilled
- unskilled
- hard skills
- soft skills
- The right person:
- self-starter, proactive, self-motivated, self-driven
- methodical, systematic, organized
- computer-literate
- numerate
- motivated
- talented
- team player
Video 1: The Intern
Analyze the lessons interns can learn from the movie!
1. Dress your best
2. Observe what needs to be done and do it without needing recognition
3. Two generations can learn from each other and work together
4. What is important and what is a priority can be very different
Video 2: The Internship
Describe Google's working conditions, select positive and negative aspects of working there, and what can still be improved. Finally, decide if you would like to work there.