HR Challenge A Difficult Position to Fill Discussion

Scenario

For this assignment, assume you are an HR professional working as  an HR business partner for one of the most prestigious nonprofit  scientific research centers in the United States. The center is large  enough to have its own office of general counsel. Recently, one of the  assistant general counsels departed for a job at the White House. The  general counsel wants the finest and most talented attorney candidates  who are practicing in the field of research in a nonprofit  setting. You have announced the open position and have had 807  applicants. You chose a group of 12 candidates, all of whom were turned  down by the supervisor (hiring manager). The general counsel’s office  demanded to see all applicant resumes, and your HR director agreed.  After they reviewed all the resumes, they said none were good enough.  However, they provided no additional information to you about their  preferred applicant qualifications. 

Your Challenge

While you are the HR business partner to the general counsel, you  have many other organizational clients, each with their own needs and  expectations, and therefore a limited amount of time to give to this  particular client. Given that you have failed to select appropriate  candidates, you consider spending some money from your very tight budget  to hire a recruiting firm, but that is not a guarantee of success. You  are considering the following three options: 1) recommending to the  hiring manager that she reconsider the 12 candidates you selected, 2)  asking her to allow you to re-announce, possibly with some changes to  the position vacancy announcement, or 3) going to the outside  (expensive) recruiting firm in spite of your budget constraints. The  option you recommend should offer the greatest return to the  organization and its employees.

Assignment Instructions

Prepare a 3-4-page plan that states your recommended course of action. Along with your recommendation, include the following: 

• Analyze how your proposed HR solution to an HR challenge contributes to organizational goals and strategies.      
  • Weigh the barriers the business partner will face with each of the three options.
  • What are the internal implications, if any, to reconsider the 12 candidates and how could that be done?
  • In your response, consider the passage of time against the need  for another attorney in the office as well as the impact of cost if you  choose to go to an external organization.
• Describe key factors you considered in the formulation of a proposed HR solution.      
  • What ethical considerations are there for recruiting and hiring in this scenario?
  • Integrate material from your references that offer a theory-based relationship to inform ethical considerations.
• Explain the role of the HR practitioner in advancing a proposed HR solution.      
  • Explain briefly your role to influence the eventual outcome. Consider aspects of leadership, negotiation, and consultation.
• Discuss the application of any SHRM behavioral competency(ies) to the process of solving an HR challenge.      
  • Which competency(ies) is most directly applicable to a successful resolution of this challenge and why?

Review the HR Challenge: A Difficult Position to Fill Scoring Guide  to see the criteria by which your assignment will be evaluated. Before  submitting your assignment for evaluation, review your draft in  SafeAssign to check your use of source material.

Submission Requirements

The deliverable for this assessment applies professional skills in  Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations which you will  likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your  learning, we focus on the development of effective professional  communication skills for the workplace. Your assessment should meet the  following additional ?requirements:

• Length: Your plan should be 3-4 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the cover and resources pages.      
  • The first page should be a cover sheet with your name, the  course number, assessment title, and date. No other information is  required on this page.
  • The last page should be the reference list.
• Organization: Make sure that your assessment writing is well-organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.