Question

Applicants to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police must pass a written examination, an interview, and a physical ability test before being accepted for basic training at the RCMP’s training center in Regina. As a federally regulated agency, the RCPM falls under the jurisdiction of the Employment Equity Act. Designed to further the employment of women, visible minorities, and other designated groups. The RCMP has had difficulty meeting recruiting targets of 20% women, 4.5% Aboriginal people, and 8.3% visible minorities that were set in compliance with the objectives of the Act. A review of testing data showed that Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities scored slightly lower than other groups ion the written tests and that 40-50% of women applicants fail the physical ability test, a rate considerably higher than that for men. In response to concerns over failing to meet its recruiting objectives, the RCMP undertook a revision of the examination, which assesses cognitive ability. The new test retains, “academic’ items related to composition and computation, but it also has new items in the form of scenarios that are directed at problem solving. The new questions are more job directed and operational in nature. The test items were rewritten to minimize the impact of different regional language styles to ensure that the questions are fair and equitable for all applicants. With respect to the physical ability test, women had particular difficulty with the upper body strength requirements. To deal with this problem, the RCMP instituted a six-week training pretraining in fitness program to help women prepare for the fitness test. It also revised the evaluation procedure. The following document provides information on the new physical ability requirement and provides information on how to prepare for the test.

que 1 . Design and describe a recruiting campaign to attract more women and visible-minority applicants to the RCMP.

oue 2 looks at another method that can be used to improve the number of minority applicants: banding. This procedure is also controversial. You may want to read that section now and discuss this as an option. How would the public likely react to using banding?

Answer 1

Ans 1- Recruiting Campaign –

· Step 1- Define the Target position. - RCMP has to recruit more women’s and minority applicants.

· Step 2- Do the research – RCMP need to reach the area where the women want the employment, the area where the visible minority peoples leave. And to the promotion about the employment.

· Step 3- Set the goal of campaign. - Diversity in recruitments.

· Step 4- Refine the messaging - In promotion give the message to application.

- The benefits of job.

- How the job does Women empowerment?

- How the job improves the living standard of minority applicant.

· Step 5- Select the media. - Moat usable medium of promotion like – Newspaper, TV, Internet, job employment companies.

Ans 2- The Another method that can use to improve the number of Minority applicants are the Referral policy. In this policy employed person can refer the suitable candidate for the Job application.

The RCMP option is taken to improve the recruitment is good-

- The new questions are more job directed and operational in nature. -

- Work on the women fitness according to job profile to get the success.

      Public may react for the changes done by the RCMP but the literate public will accept the improvement in the process of recruitment.