CDMA Week 5 Discussion

CDMA Week 5 Discussion | Tulane University

5.3 Who Would I Interview?

Enterprise Holdings is one of the largest privately held companies in the country. You probably know the company as Enterprise Rent-a-Car. What you may not know is that Enterprise Holdings has consistently been voted as one of the best places to work for college graduates. For their management training program, all applicants must have a college degree, must be hardworking, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. The MT program prepares employees to eventually be a branch manager with a multi-million-dollar inventory budget, responsible for 10 or more employees. Others will venture into a corporate administrative role in a variety of areas, but they all start in the management training program.

In this activity, you will put yourself in the position of the hiring manager for Enterprise Holdings. You just posted a job description online and received a few résumés right away from college students. It’s your job to review each of the résumés received and determine who you would want to interview based on the information provided. Keep in mind what you learned in the résumés activity and remember to consider how each applicant would align with the job description and requirements based on the information included in their résumé.

YOUR TASK

First, review the job description Download job descriptionand résumés Download résumés. When reviewing résumés, ignore format and instead focus solely on the content included in the résumé.

Create your initial post:

Include the following in your initial post:

1.    Rank all applicants in the order in which you would want to interview them (1 = most interested in interviewing; 4 = least interested in interviewing). Format should not be taken into account when ranking the applicants—just content.

2.    Explain your ranking for each person, highlighting how their résumé demonstrated they were a good (or not so great) fit for the position.

Provide feedback:

Respond to at least two of your peers’ initial posts, discussing how their ranking and rationale were similar or different from yours. Consider the following questions: did you see something in an applicant’s résumé that perhaps your peer missed? What makes one applicant better than another, in your opinion.