Human Resources Management (HRM)

While you may feel you’re fairly accomplished in the interviewee role, you may not have as much experience in the interviewer role. One of the ways to learn more about this role is to talk to those Recreation and Leisure Service (RLS) professionals who have conducted a lot of interviews for their organizations. Be sure the person you select to interview for this assignment is currently in a full-time position with a RLS organization, and has the responsibility of hiring as a part of his/her job description (NOTE: You may not choose faculty members, coaches, or advisors for this assignment.)

Your task is to find one of those professionals and conduct an informational interview with them about how they interview prospective employees. At a minimum you should ask them how they conduct search and screen processes for positions, the types of positions they hire, the steps candidates have to go through in order to get to the interview, how they set up on-site interviews, the questions they ask, unusual incidents that have occurred when interviewing candidates, questions they have been asked by candidates, and their suggestions for you as a future interviewer. Students writing exemplary reports will develop additional, appropriate questions for their interviewee. Of course, you should introduce your interviewee and briefly describe their position and organization. Finally, you should summarize your report with at least two paragraphs reflecting upon what you learned from this interview.

Human Resources Management (HRM)

Human Resources Management (HRM)
Paper should include:
A brief overview of the experience (i.e., what was the case about? what did you do? etc.)
A discussion of the related theories and course material (e.g., brief definition/description of the most relevant ethics concepts/theories)
An analysis of your decision (e.g., What factors/theories did your team consider in your decision making process? What did you decide? Do you think you made a good decision? Why or why not?)
What did you learn from this experience that you can apply in a managerial role?

What will an A paper look like?
Demonstrate an understanding of course concepts related to the exercise
Majority of the paper is devoted to analysis (rather than description).
Even if your team doesn’t perform as well as you would have liked in an exercise, you can still write an A paper! The important thing is to demonstrate what you learned.
Provide specific examples from the experience and link them to specific ideas, concepts and theories discussed in class.

Human Resources Management (HRM)

Human Resources Management (HRM)
Paper should include:
A brief overview of the experience (i.e., what was the case about? what did you do? etc.)
A discussion of the related theories and course material (e.g., brief definition/description of the most relevant ethics concepts/theories)
An analysis of your decision (e.g., What factors/theories did your team consider in your decision making process? What did you decide? Do you think you made a good decision? Why or why not?)
What did you learn from this experience that you can apply in a managerial role?

What will an A paper look like?
Demonstrate an understanding of course concepts related to the exercise
Majority of the paper is devoted to analysis (rather than description).
Even if your team doesn’t perform as well as you would have liked in an exercise, you can still write an A paper! The important thing is to demonstrate what you learned.
Provide specific examples from the experience and link them to specific ideas, concepts and theories discussed in class.