Sunday, March 17, 2013

A630.9.4.RB - Shuck, Allison

Hiring and Recruiting 

Does Schmidt's description of the Google Culture make sense to you?
Yes, after watching the video Hiring and Recruiting, I know understand more about Google culture and how Google hires and requites new employees. Google’s culture is center on “passion”, doing what you do because you love doing it! Most of Google employees are self motivated and require little management. To me, that shows how effective Google is at hiring and reciting new employees. Although Google understands interpersonal differences, they seek to find candidates that are compatible with existing organizational members; they recruit people who are self driven and who know how to be team player. Overall, this method has been proven successful.

Is this a reasonable way to view the work that most people are doing in your workplace?
Yes, my colleagues and I are very similar; we are all team players and are all self -driven. With the increase in student population and the lack of staffing, upper management does not have the time to delegate tasks or participate in the decision making process; therefore, my colleagues and I must use our best judgment and make executive decisions on our own.

As a leader, does it take courage to have and to implement this point of view?
Personally, I don’t think courage is the right word to use to describe Google’s hiring and recruiting process; although it takes courage to hire a new employee, I think that Google uses creativity or innovation. Google has the ability to use ingenuity and forward thinking to break the barriers of traditional hiring and recruiting.

Could this approach backfire?
Yes, if an employee vision no longer matches the vision on the organization, then the employee will start doing what they want to do instead of what they should be doing.

What can you take away from this exercise to immediately use in your career?
I think that the biggest thing I can take away from this video is how many organizations uses different tactics to hire and recruit new employees. Overall, I think that many organizations are following in Google’s footsteps, like Google, they understand how important it is to have self-driven employees who know how to work as a team. 

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