This assignment requires students to interview candidates for an HR position and write a six-page paper about the process. Students must critique a resume, determine potential challenges for their selected interview type and how to address them, create an interview form with questions based on the job description, conduct an interview with a candidate, summarize the experience and decision to hire or not hire the candidate along with the ethical considerations involved. The paper must follow APA or other specified formatting and be graded based on set criteria including answer quality, organization, and writing skills.

1. Assignment 4: Conducting an Interview – Capstone Project
Due Week 10 and worth 350 points
Congratulations! You have the foundation for your HR
department in place, and you are ready to select your staff. You
must make sure that you are selecting the best talents for your
HR department. You are now receiving resumes from recent
graduates of Masters of Human Research Management (MHRM)
programs, and you must prepare to interview the candidates.
Write a six (6) page paper in which you:
1. Review the resume and cover letter you received from your
job posting in the Week 8 discussion. Next, critique the
competitive advantage you are predicting from the potential
candidate. Provide a rationale for your critique.
2. Indicate the interview type you will be using (i.e., phone,
video, in person). Next, determine one (1) challenge that may
arise with this type of interview. Develop a plan to mitigate this
challenge and minimize its impact on your interview.
3. Create the interview form. Use the job description from Week
7 Assignment 3 to write the interview questions.
Note
: The interview form should be incorporated into the paper and
is counted towards the total page length requirement for this
assignment.
Hint

2. : Review the article “
Types of Interviews
”
4. Conduct the interview with your potential candidate via
Google Hangouts, video conferencing, telephone or any other
appropriate technology. Input the interview information onto
the form you created.
5. Write a brief summary of your experience conducting the
interview. Indicate in the summary whether or not you have
chosen this candidate for the position. Include the ethical
decision-making abilities that went into your decision. Provide
a rationale for your decision.
6. Format your assignment according to these formatting
requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow
APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for
any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required page length.
Cite the resources you have used to complete the assignment.
Note
: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources
used in the assignment.

3. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Use communication skills to effectively convey human resource
policies and practices throughout the organization.
Examine the human resource management function of recruiting
and selecting, and its importance to business strategy.
Demonstrate an ability to motivate individuals and teams toward
organizational goals through the application of human resource
initiatives and policies.
Develop ethical decision-making abilities that support
employment practices, policies, procedures, and integrity within
an organization.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management
using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the following
rubric
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