Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Group Project
CE00315-2-PED
Prepared By
Thabitha Jeyarajan(CB003376)
Date of Submission
25-02-2011
Instructor
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Acknowledgements
We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all those who assisted us in the preparation of this
Assignment.
First of all we like to thank Ms. Jina Daluwaththa who attributed their full support and
cooperation by providing facts and information about “Career Development” to bring this
assignment a success and for their kind guidance as well as encouragement helped to complete
this assignment in time.
Our special thank also go to the Lab Assistants, Librarians and others, for providing us all the
resources and facilities.
We also wish to thank our parents and friends for all the support and kind assistance extended by
them.
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Contents
1.0 Introduction to the company.................................................................................................5
1.1 Job Identification...............................................................................................................5
2.0 Recruitment Strategies......................................................................................................6
2.1 Newspaper advertisement.................................................................................................7
2.2 Mass mailing campaign....................................................................................................8
2.3 University Recruitment.....................................................................................................9
3.0 Recruitment Time Table..........................................................................................................10
4.0 Recruitment strategy for each post..........................................................................................12
4.1 Project Manager...................................................................................................................12
4.2 Junior Software Engineer....................................................................................................15
4.3 Junior Quality Assurance Engineer.....................................................................................17
5.0 Advertisement Designs and Specs...........................................................................................19
6.0 Job Descriptions and Personal Specifications.........................................................................23
6.1 Project Manager...................................................................................................................23
6.1.1 JOB DESCRIPTION....................................................................................................23
6.1.2 PERSONAL SPECIFICATION...................................................................................25
6.2 Junior Software Engineer....................................................................................................28
6.2.1 Job Description.............................................................................................................28
6.2.2 PERSONAL SPECIFICATION...................................................................................31
6.3 Junior Quality Assurance Engineer.....................................................................................34
6.3.1 JOB DESCRIPTION....................................................................................................34
6.3.2 PERSONAL SPECIFICATION...................................................................................36
7.0 Interview Questions and Interview Criteria.............................................................................39
7.1 Project Manager...................................................................................................................39
7.2 Junior Software Engineer....................................................................................................40
Programmer Interview Questions..........................................................................................40
7.3 Junior Quality......................................................................................................................45
8.0 References................................................................................................................................48
9.0 Appendices..............................................................................................................................50
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They serve enterprise and leading software vendors in communication technology, financial
services and insurance, banking and media.
The company is established a research and development center in Sri Lanka which was establish
in 2000. With the increase of high demand for their solutions, company has taken steps to expand
its operations in Sri Lanka
Project manager – 1
Junior Software engineer -1
Junior quality assurance engineer- 5
1.2
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The main task of selecting the correct person is quite difficult, as the job market
increases, the number of dropout increase more people looking for job we have to be very
selective in making a decision, or else poor choices would lead to long term loses and the
investment made over to make a recruitment will result with a great lose.
Recruitment is “the set of activities and processes used to legally obtain a sufficient
number of qualified people at the right place and time so that the people and the
organization can select each other in their own best short and long term interests”
( Schuler, Randall S.)
In other words it’s explained recruitment helps in an organization to find a suitable
person out of huge lot that matches with the required skill set in the required vacancy.
For this to be fulfilled properly a suitable recruitment strategy should be selected
depending on the vacancy.
Newspaper advertisement
University recruitment
Below will discuss the reason why it was choose and how to perform it
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The process of advertising over newspaper which would reach out a large number
of audience and also can be considered. It’s been a traditional media which had
been exits far long ago, but yet a great source for promotion because every single
house in Sri Lanka at least purchases it once a weak.
How to perform
This method is only been allocated for project manager and software engineers,
the main reason is selection of one per job and skill set required is quite which
acquire more industrial experience people to engage.
For this task to be performed the major newspaper companies are selected, The
campaign is carried out two days in a week day and a weekend as most of people
find time reading news papers in week days.
Campaign dates will not be a single date but of many dates, intension of reaching
a larger crowd.
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By using internet it’s a faster and cheaper option compared to others, Most of the
people have access to internet since it’s already an IT related vacancy, the
employee will have internet access, and using this method would be really
practical
As after a long time Sri Lanka has now evolved with mass mailing or also know
as newsletters, where bulk mail is sent to a list of subscribers who have registered
to receive the service.
This method also was selected for project manager and software engineer only.
How it is performed
First selection of service provider is done with regard to budget and number of
subscribers that they have. The design that has been used for the newspaper ad
will be used as for this media too.
Once a particular person receives the mail, he/she might not be interested but
there are a specific group who might be looking for a similar job, All they have to
do is simply reply to the email attaching a the CV and covering letter.
Compare to previous method there will be a high response rate because of the
ability of replying instantly.
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This approach is mainly used to get junior non experience people to increase work
force. Basically it would fulfill needs of the both side the company getting its
work force increase and the workers in return getting a good experience which
would help to build up their career.
We have selected this method to be used only when recruiting software engineer
and quality assurance engineer only, main reason is because of recruiting
university dropouts will help them to get a large pool of job applicants.
How it is done
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Recruitment time table for software engineer and junior quality assurance engineer
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For the recruitment of project manager is handle by a different team including a judge panel.
The strategy as mention before is quite different from compared to
Event Date
Advertising in Daily Mirror Jan 4th
Advertising in Sunday Observer Jan 6th
Mass mailing campaign Jan 8th
Advertising in topjobs.lk Jan 8th
Application deadline Jan 28th
Sorting applications by judge panel Jan 31st
Call for Interview Feb 1st
Selecting candidates Feb 2nd
Call for second interview Feb 4th
Reference check and selecting candidates Feb 7th
Informing candidate and contract signing Feb 9th
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The advertisement campaign is schedule for two different days for each newspaper, the
days were selected were mainly Sunday because of to get a larger audience.
Mass mailing has been quite popular in Sri Lanka with the increase of use of internet.
The main purpose of this campaign is for people who will not have time to read news
papers. It’s a basic alternative or a plan B. Firstly a large mass mailing service provider is
selected over budget and number of audience reached.
The selected service provider was srilanka-advertisement.com who has a subscriber list
of five hundred thousand active Sri-Lankan emails.
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When looked at internet advertisement there is a vast number of options the option we
selected was advertising at top job listing site which is frequently used by job hunters.
The best preference was topjobs.lk were even large companies like WSO2, DFCC bank
etc. This method is very cost effective compared to the two other
Resume screening
This section is basically filtering the CV received from candidates and cross referencing
the requirements required with the qualifications in the candidate CV. A number of 25
candidates will be selected and called for interview for the first round.
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Interviewing Candidate
The approach of selecting a project manager is somewhat different from a normal post
like software engineer or a quality assurance engineer. The strategy used for it is as
follows.
Here there will be 2 main interview calls, the first interview call will be for the 30
candidates out of whom have the best qualification match for the required job. In this
interview will be based on a friendly chat and with a basic objective of judging
communication skills, qualifications, technical knowledge and work co-ordination by
asking simple questions.
The second interview will be with a judge panel of superior members of the company for
a limited number of five best candidates out thirty. Overall a friendly Q and A section
which would judge the expertise and experience of the candidate.
Selecting Candidate
Check reference
For the references shown by the candidate the referees will be contacted and the
Qualifications will be reconfirmed.
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The company targets fresher’s for junior software Engineer job vacancy. Advertising Job
vacancy in both Internet and newspapers it would be more helpful for students, even
though students assessing internet everyday but some areas of having lack internet
facilities.
Resume Screening
Resume screening is a good method to collect information about a candidate’s past skills
experience and other extra activities. First gather all received CVs and will be filtered by
checking with the company requirements and pick 20 suitable candidates from the list
and asked them to sit for the psychometric test.
Psychometric test
Psychometric tests plan to measure quality like intelligence, skill and personality. Test
provides a suitable employee who can work with other employees, handle pressure easily,
and having good problem solving skills. Psycho met test candidates will be receiving
marks and selected 12 candidates will be directed to the next step procedure.
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Interviewing Candidates
From Interview board candidates identify by their achievements and experience looking
through certificates and by asking questions interviewers will gauge candidates.
Interview board will examine candidate’s skills and thoughts. After that they will be
ranked and top six candidates will be chosen to the next step.
Selecting
Check References
Reference mentioned in CV is also important some time they will call person get
information about candidate. Looking through reference mentioned company will verify
selected candidate’s details.
After checking the references, interview board will check the marks they scrod and select
candidate who scored highest marks.
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The main reason why this method is used because first time job seekers most likely
search web rather than reading newspapers and journals. Another major factor that effect
the is getting into an even larger crowd with the minimal cost.
University Recruitment
The main recruitment strategy selected was taking a pool of applicant from university
drop outs, Advertisements and seminar sessions will be held during the allocated dates
for. “College recruitment offers an opportunity for recruiters to select the potential
employees with the personal, technical and professional competencies they require in
their organization.”
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Resume screening
This section is basically filtering the CV received from candidates and cross referencing
the requirements required with the qualifications in the candidate CV. A number of 50
candidates will be selected and called for interview for the first round.
Interviewing Candidate
The interview consist of two stages, the main interview is consist of a judge panel whom
simple have Q&A section with the candidate.
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The main form of promotion is by advertisement which could be from different forms via
Internet, TV or even news paper. Our task was to design three job advertisements for each
specified job that would appear.
The main designs were made for advertising in newspaper as we have selected that has our main
strategy of advertisement.
The advertisements in newspaper would appear in two famous newspaper publishing companies’
i.e. Daily Mirror and Sunday Observer, The mailing campaign would you the similar add as an
image and sent via mail. For university recruitment process the ads will be attached on university
premises billboards and notice boards.
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Job Purpose:
A project manager is a person who has the responsibility of planning a project and seeing that it
is completed successfully, within the given deadline. He / she needs to have excellent
management skills to coordinate with the entire team and also with the clients.
Communicate with the user department and identify key elements to be automated
according to the requirements.
A project manager may have to manage more than one project at a time.
Estimate the recourses, needed to achieve project goals
Develop full- scale project plan.
Finish the project within the budget and deadline.
The project manager also involves developing and maintaining cordial relationships with
clients and team members
Project manager should coordinate team members efficiently.
Define project scope, goals and deliverables to senior management and Client.
After the project is completed, the project manager should conduct a meeting with the
team to evaluate the whole project and to discuss the results.
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REPORTING RELATIONS
PMOPM-Software engineer
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Salary: This is fully depending on the Experiences and skills. Person with 3-4 years of
experience will receive an average salary of Rs.100, 000-200, 000. Person with 5-9 years of
experience will receive an average salary will be Rs.400, 000-500, 000. Person with greater than
10 years of experience will receive an average of 600,000-1000, 000. In addition to that Rs.3,
000/hour of OT, ETF, medical allowance etc will be provided.
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Work scale: Office hours have limited to 8 hrs per day from 9.00 am to 5.00pm. Sunday and
poya day will be a holiday and Company will be provided an annual leave as well.
Essential Desirable
motivated.
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Location : Colombo
Junior Software Engineer should be able to analyze and research user requirements and required
to design, develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or systems.Should
be able to analyze and design databases within a relevance area, function individually and
coordinately database progress as part of a team.
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Internal: Research and Development Centre Director, Project Manager, System analysis,
Seniors software engineers, Quality assurance engineers
External: Clients, Marketing executive
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Ready to work in the project in day and night.
Work effectively and successfully.
Set the mile stones and achieve the work in time
Ability concentre in different projects at a the similar period
REPORTING RELATIONS
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Probation period: 1 year
People have to work temporary for 1 year and satisfied the company expectations. Then
only they monitor work and give permanent job
Salary: Basic Salary Rs. 30,000 to 40,000.
Salary applies according the work lord and based on experience
Working hours have not limited. Able to work in any time depend on the project
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Essential Desirable
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Date Appointed :
Revision date :
Effective date :
Position grade :
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Software Engineer
Head of Quality Assurance
Team Leader
REPORTING RELATIONS
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Salary: This is fully depending on the Experiences and skills. For fresh employees salary range
is 25000-30000.
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Essential Desirable
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making customers
happy
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As mentioned before the interviews are usually face to face with a judge panel, This judge panel
is a specially selected people in the company with high rank , as they need to make a correct
discussion in order to select a candidate. This scenario is only base on the first interview.
What is the method you’re going to use to find the realistic schedule for a project?
Can you tell us what methodology are you going to use to manage resources?
How do you identify risk of a program and mitigate it?
Tell me what are the project management methodologies that you are familiar?
What are the tools that you have used for project management?
How do you manage suppliers?
What is your method or how do you plan to inform the progress of the project to
clients?
What are the tools you use to monitor and control projects?
What are the principles that you follow when you start a project and end a
project?
Have you had any previous training to take such a job?
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4. Why you select our company? Did you what we doing here?
5. What kind of skills you have? How about knowledge in documentation and creating
testing?
6. What is a software Engineering?
7. What type of job and Salary you expected?
8. You prefer work alone or team?
9. How about working over time? Can you?
10. How about problem solving skills and designing skills?
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Software Solutions
Applicant Name:
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- Experiences of previous
work
Communication
-Body languages
- Listening skills
- Clear responses
10%
Interpersonal Skills
- Project Management Skills.
- Decision making
15%
-Attitudes about the company
Other
- Strong and Last Impression
- Thanking for interviewer
15%
- Made 30 second self
commercial
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Software Solutions
Applicant Name:
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Educational / Working
Qualification
- BSc (Hons) in IT related
field.
20%
- Involvement in projects.
- Experiences different
programming languages
Communication
- Listening skills
- Clear responses
- Body languages
10%
- ask question by own
Interpersonal Skills
- Project Management Skills.
- Decision making
15%
- Self dedication
- team building
Other
- Strong and Last Impression
- Thanking for interviewer
15%
- Made 30 second self
commercial
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This section describes the interview questions and interview criteria for junior Quality Assurance
Engineer. Interviewing is probably most used widely use good technique. Interviewing person
directly and identify the candidates good and can able to know about some important thing
cannot be direct observed. Interview has to be to contact in the best way to select the suitable
candidates
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Software Solutions
Applicant Name:
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Experiences in
writing and executing
the test cases.
Leadership skills
Educational / Working
Qualification
- BSc (Hons) in IT related
field.
20%
-Diploma in computer sciene.
Communication
- Listening skills
- Clear responses
- Body languages
10%
- ask question by own
Interpersonal Skills
- Confidence ,positive
thinking
15%
Team work
.
Other
15%
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The main part of an interview is to impress the interviewer during the interview session
but how?
Before the interview send a well formatted CV without any grammar or punctional errors
Keep the CV format clean and professional were the reader could easily read
Take some time to research about the company and get to know there history before
coming to the interview.
Wear a formal dress, your personality counts.
Be relaxed and talk confidently
Do not make 30 second pauses for a reply.
8.0 References
I. Schuler, Randall S.: Personnel and Human Resource Management, Third Edition.
II. Rothbauer. H and Wanish, 2009, Job Interview Preparation, [Online], Available:
http://job-interview-skills.suite101.com/article.cfm/job_interview_preparation, [Accessed
26th January 2011].
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9.0 Appendices
3 adverts 10 marks
3 interview criteria sheets – one per post, showing the criteria being 30 marks
assessed, a scoring system and a minimum of 10 interview questions
per sheet
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