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Companies need to find employees with both technical and interpersonal skills to match job criteria and company culture. This will increase company success and secure long-term employment. The document lists various solutions for companies to meet and recognize the right people such as thorough interview processes, internships, referrals, networking events, and competitions. The author's favorite ideas are offering internships to students, creating design competitions with job positions for winners, and publishing online trainings for people to take and demonstrate skills.
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- 2. Problem Statement Companies need a way to find employees with both technical and interpersonal skills that match the job criteria and company environment because a good will increase the success of the company and secure long term employment. OR How can companies meet and recognize the right people better?
- 3. Obvious solutions 1. Thorough interview process. 2. Ask for references from previous employers. 3. Hiring people for a trial period. 4. Offering training classes and hire people who do well. 5. Create design competition and hire people who do the best. 6. Use staffing agency who knows more about the people they propose to be hired. 7. Offer internships for students. 8. Visit career fairs and other similar events.
- 4. Obvious solutions cont. 9. Use referrals from people within the company. 10. Sponsor a club on campus that will be an “employee feeder” for the company. 11. Host a networking event. 12. Sponsor hands-on classes at high schools. 13. Visit campuses with recruiting purposes. 14. Incorporate testing into the interview process. 15. “Steal” employees from other companies.
- 5. Unlimited budget solutions 15. Extensive background check. 16. Hire all the applicants and pick the best ones. 17. Purchase companies that are already successful. 18. Host a technological conference. 19. Build a comprehensive online university for people who want to learn about the industry. 20. Giving out free products and see how creative people use them. 21. Invite potential employees to a party and
- 6. Novel Ideas (in my opinion). 22. Require IQ test on the resume. 23. Time the employees while they do basic tasks.
- 7. My favorite ideas. 1. Offer internships for students. That is a good way to figure out who is who. After a few weeks it becomes apparent if the intern can survive at the company. 2. Create a massive design competition. If you offer a position at a company to the first few winners or at least promise an interview, people will flock to your competition. Selecting winners = selecting hirees. 3. Publish trainings online and invite people to take them. It is my favorite, because I feel like people are hungry for learning, they just don’t know where to get it from. Given a chance, they learn everything they need to be successful.