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1. Purpose
The purpose of this report is to investigate the organisation’s recruitment and selection process to improve their cost – effectiveness and quality of people they bring into the company, and enhance the level of new recruit’s engagement.
Being chosen to lead this project, I have devised the project plan in Microsoft Project programme (see Appendix A attached), as this allows me to track project progression against objectives, using Gantt chart. Gantt chart gives a clear overview of milestones and important dates, and also enables maintaining time-scaled project on a regular basis. 2. Risk assessment
Risk is an uncertainty in a plan that you can potentially control, or at least track (Barkley, 2004), therefore risk must be identified, especially the critical ones which could potentially bring a program or project to a halt or cause major issues.
Major risks, which could potentially affect the project, might be insufficient resources and unclear responsibilities. Project will most certainly require individuals with different skill sets. Project leader must identify team’s skills at the beginning of the project and assign the resources to particular project aspects. This can be done through various team activities, like brainstorming or team building activities. Team leader can also easily identify strength and weakness by observing individuals during various meetings. If faced with the lack of resources, then one of the mitigation strategies might be re - assigning certain resources: reschedule critical activities based on availability of personnel. Project leader cannot fail to use RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed). All team members should also have basic knowledge about others’ responsibilities in order to be able to swap roles, if necessary. Any project implementation carries a certain number of risks. Knowing what can cause a project failure can point the team in the right direction. Once more, good communication is the
The purpose of this report is to investigate the organisation’s recruitment and selection process to improve their cost – effectiveness and quality of people they bring into the company, and enhance the level of new recruit’s engagement.
Being chosen to lead this project, I have devised the project plan in Microsoft Project programme (see Appendix A attached), as this allows me to track project progression against objectives, using Gantt chart. Gantt chart gives a clear overview of milestones and important dates, and also enables maintaining time-scaled project on a regular basis. 2. Risk assessment
Risk is an uncertainty in a plan that you can potentially control, or at least track (Barkley, 2004), therefore risk must be identified, especially the critical ones which could potentially bring a program or project to a halt or cause major issues.
Major risks, which could potentially affect the project, might be insufficient resources and unclear responsibilities. Project will most certainly require individuals with different skill sets. Project leader must identify team’s skills at the beginning of the project and assign the resources to particular project aspects. This can be done through various team activities, like brainstorming or team building activities. Team leader can also easily identify strength and weakness by observing individuals during various meetings. If faced with the lack of resources, then one of the mitigation strategies might be re - assigning certain resources: reschedule critical activities based on availability of personnel. Project leader cannot fail to use RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed). All team members should also have basic knowledge about others’ responsibilities in order to be able to swap roles, if necessary. Any project implementation carries a certain number of risks. Knowing what can cause a project failure can point the team in the right direction. Once more, good communication is the
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