The purpose of this assignment is to get you started on applying course concepts to your own personal career journey, and to share / leverage the perspective of other students in a professionally refined pursuit of your career aspirations (refinement never ends) by developing an understanding of the hiring manager's perspective.

The assignment is designed to stretch your thinking, force you to take some risks and make some rational assumptions. Engage accordingly.

Requirements: This discussion board requires that you provide one INITIAL post and two RESPONSE posts.

INITIAL posts are due by the date listed

RESPONSE posts are due no more than 24 hours after the primary post, Access to the discussion board will close 24 hours after the initial post due date / time.

The information needed for the posts, other than your own career perspective / direction, is included in the Career Readiness Workshop (or the video if you were unable to attend). The video and slides will be posted to Canvas after completion of the Workshop

DO NOT USE THE COMPANY EXAMPLES FROM THE WORKSHOP FOR THE FOLLOWING POSTS

DO NOT PROVIDE APA CITATIONS, but a brief explanation of the rationale behind key assumptions is necessary

INITIAL POST: Suggested length >3 substantial paragraphs, all elements must be sufficiently covered

Identify an organization you may be interested in working for that has posted a job opening. Provide the company name and the job title.

The job posting you select MUST require a bachelor's degree in business. Do not select roles requiring less than a four year degree.

Feel free to select a role requiring up to 5 years of experience if you think you can apply the concepts effectively as listed below

Using the concepts from the workshop (Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Business Process Thinking Checklist, Four Types of Customer Value, etc.), develop and explain a rational perspective as to why the company is hiring. Critical: be sure to clearly state any assumptions you are making - if you are thinking deeply and effectively, you will have to make assumptions to form a perspective. Suggested structure:

Explain how the company's customers see value in their product/services

Explain how the team within the company creates that value - list rational assumptions

At a role-specific level, provide a perspective as to the gaps that may be keeping the organization / team from creating the value that customers want AND how hiring the right team member might help to correct the issue (YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME RATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS ON THIS PORTION). Hint: it's probably not listed in the job description, this might take some high-level research online, etc.