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Recruitment consists of a number of procedures that require professional knowledge, analysis, and preparation. The overall staffing function is closely corresponding to the Human Resources Management strategy, as it acts as its gateway, attracting and filtering applicants, who would at the end contribute to the strategy and success of the organization. Staffing can also reflect the current labour demand and skill level, which help Human Resources Department forecast staffing plan and training needs. Due to the importance stated above, each procedure, from job design and criterion setting to interview and induction, must be carefully planned, and proceed.

The exercise in the class provides an opportunity for me, the group members, and other students to practice recruitment and acknowledge the importance of each process. The passages below provide procedures and roles we played in the exercise, with some feedbacks and comments, personal interview experiences, followed by suggestions of improvements and references from literature.

With the case given in the class, we were ordered to form into group of four, with each member playing a specific Human Resources roles at a time-Chairperson, H.R. Advisor, Job Supervisor, and Interviewee-with opportunity to switch roles per turn. Chairperson was responsible for organizing the overall interview process, providing information on the company to the interviewee; the H.R. Advisor would emphasize on potential talent and career development and focused on human issues, such as mobility and presentation skills; Job Supervisor would search for technical skills, like education and experience in required fields and performance, from the candidates. The first task was to establish shortlisting standards; that is, to list out essential criterion and desirable criterion, according to which we reduced the number of applications. Essential criterion are job requirements, without such would cause the recruited candidate unable to accomplish established tasks. In our case, because the position is exposed to various main H.R. functions, the candidate must have solid experience in H.R. duties and procedures, with minimum requirement of university graduate in related field to support the daily tasks. Furthermore, given the frequent travel between Hong Kong and Australia, the candidate must also be fluent in written and spoken Chinese (Cantonese/Putonghua) and English to comprehend with the parties in these two regions. Desirable

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