Human Resource Management
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The organization that we have chosen is Cathay Pacific Airways, an airline industry that was established in 1946 in Hong Kong by an American Roy Farrell and an Australian Sydney H de Kantzow (Cathay Pacific n.d.a). The company has been named as “Best Airline in the World and Best Airline First Class in the 2012 Business Traveller China Awards” (Cathay Pacific n.d.b). This shows that Cathay Pacific is the one company that has its core competency in the development of world class employees based on their recruitment and selection process that is crucial as a starting point for any achievements. Recruitment is basically the process of identifying and hiring the best-qualified candidate internally or externally for job vacancies offered in an organization (Dessler 2013, p.172). Likewise, Cathay Pacific has emphasised on a few recruitment methods to invite people that are interested to apply for the job offered by them. However, selection is the process of selecting the most suitable candidate in order to fill certain job position by using screening tools like tests, assessment centers, etc that was also practiced by Cathay Pacific (Dessler 2013, p.202). Then, further issues on the recruitment and selection process of Cathay Pacific are analysed as follow.
2.0 RECRUITMENT
Types of internal and external job position
There are several types of internal job positions in Cathay Pacific Airlines, Technical Instructor under the department of Flight Operations, Assistant Manager Communication Services / Editor under the department of Corporate Communication and Aircraft Mechanics (Cathay Pacific n.d.c). Besides, examples of the external job positions are Flight Crew, Flight Attendant and Flight Simulator Instructor.
Internal recruitment
The types of internal recruitment are promotion where the second officers must achieve his or her target ranking within four-and-a-half years to be promoted as the first officer (Flight Global 2012).
The organization that we have chosen is Cathay Pacific Airways, an airline industry that was established in 1946 in Hong Kong by an American Roy Farrell and an Australian Sydney H de Kantzow (Cathay Pacific n.d.a). The company has been named as “Best Airline in the World and Best Airline First Class in the 2012 Business Traveller China Awards” (Cathay Pacific n.d.b). This shows that Cathay Pacific is the one company that has its core competency in the development of world class employees based on their recruitment and selection process that is crucial as a starting point for any achievements. Recruitment is basically the process of identifying and hiring the best-qualified candidate internally or externally for job vacancies offered in an organization (Dessler 2013, p.172). Likewise, Cathay Pacific has emphasised on a few recruitment methods to invite people that are interested to apply for the job offered by them. However, selection is the process of selecting the most suitable candidate in order to fill certain job position by using screening tools like tests, assessment centers, etc that was also practiced by Cathay Pacific (Dessler 2013, p.202). Then, further issues on the recruitment and selection process of Cathay Pacific are analysed as follow.
2.0 RECRUITMENT
Types of internal and external job position
There are several types of internal job positions in Cathay Pacific Airlines, Technical Instructor under the department of Flight Operations, Assistant Manager Communication Services / Editor under the department of Corporate Communication and Aircraft Mechanics (Cathay Pacific n.d.c). Besides, examples of the external job positions are Flight Crew, Flight Attendant and Flight Simulator Instructor.
Internal recruitment
The types of internal recruitment are promotion where the second officers must achieve his or her target ranking within four-and-a-half years to be promoted as the first officer (Flight Global 2012).