Question

1. To meet labor shortages within the company, Bowing starts with promotions and transfers. What advantages might it experience from filling positions with current employees?

2. Besides the external recruitment sources(recruiting college students and working with highschools), what other sources would you recommend for Boeing? Why?

Answer 1

Answer:- Advantages of internal selection are as below:-

It improves the morale of the employees

The training cost and cost of induction is not incurred

The employee already has the knowledge of the policies of the organization

It can result in future leadership building

Easy to appraise the employees

Answer:- Boeing can consider the below-mentioned methods of recruitment:-

Advertising:- This is the most common method which is used by the firms to attract the new talent in the organization. In this method, the advertising related to the opening of job vacancies is published in newspapers and magazines so that it can reach to the maximum number of candidates. The probable candidates see this advertisement and respond to the job vacancies. This method creates a huge pool of candidate. This is very useful methods as it creates a huge pool of candidates and a lot of option is available for the firms.

Placement Agency:- This is also one of the popular methods of recruitment among the firms. The firms hire an external recruitment agency and this agency takes care of all the stages of recruitment process. The main advantage of this method is that firm need not take the pain of publishing, contacting, screening and selecting the candidates.

Internet Advertising:- With the advent and spread of internet, the companies are also looking to use the internet to attract the probable candidates. They publish the job opening in the various job portals and the candidates can apply for the jobs posted on these portals. The main advantage of this method is its cost-effectiveness, its reach as the job can be seen anywhere in the world and it carets a large pool of candidates.