Question

Hiring at Melcom Shopping Centre – 60,000 in a day.

Melcom announced April 19, 2015 as National Hiring Day in Ghana. Melcom has 1000 shopping outlets across the country and has 20000 employees. On April 19, this figure will be 60000 employees i.e. roughly 40 workers per each shopping Centre.

As per the plan, Melcom will hire 40,000 new employees in various part-time and full-time positions at crew and management levels. The starting wage will typically be more than Ghc50.00 per day. Outlet managers can earn up to Ghc30,000.00 a year. Melcom was also recently selected by the Agoo Magazine as one of the best companies in the country for internship and part-time jobs.

Around 75% of outlet managers and 40% of corporate employees at Melcom started as attendants and cleaners at both part-time and full-time basis. This should be great news for those who see it as a first step to a better career later, either within or outside the company. This should also be good news for the Ghanaian economy where the national unemployment rate is around 6.7 percent.

Melcom country held a meeting with the HR management of the company and held a press conference where among many other things he urged prospective applicants to take advantage of the opportunity as the company intends to diversify its recruitment process. The biggest hiring initiative in company history comes in the wake of growing number of 24-hour stores across the country.

REQUIREMENTS

As the head of the HR management, you are required to plan the recruitment process through a 3-month timeline. (

Answer 1

As a Head of HR management or HRM department, I will keep my department actively engaged on a goal oriented recruitment process . A typical stages which i will utilize along with my team members are listed as below;

1) Setting a daily basis recruitment goals

2) Hiring individuals based on location preferences and giving preferences to local guys .

3) A national level employment Advertisement including newspapers, online advertising and job portals will be utilized.

4) Both online and offline and even multiple channel hiring/ staff strategies will be utilized

5) Merit based selection and on the spot offers will be given to candidates.

6) A pipeline will be developed.  

7) All the hires will have to attend a rigorous training of work culture and development of professional attitude.

Our aim will be to attract candidates faster as well as nurturing them for our newly established or potential outlets. Salary will be negotiated to candidates by comparing with immediate and best organizations.

First of all , team lead positions will be hired where atleast 6 month to 5 years of experience having people will be appointed. Our some of the important methods for recruitment will be

1) Campus hiring for fresh graduates

2) Walk in to our newly opened locations

3) Recruitment steps will be vary as per profile of the candidates and nature of jobs.

4) Manpower agencies will be hired for supplying to some very critical profiles where candidates are very less.

We shall utilize all the possible approaches to recruitment. We shall hire candidates atleast 1.5 times more than our projected requirements so that our pipeline can be maintained.