Interview HR Manager
Kierra Johnson February 24, 2015
Interview of a HR Manager / Specialist
For my interview of a HR manager or specialist I chose to interview someone from a popular company who has a plant local to where I live in Oxford, PA. I interviewed Eric Maholmes the Human resource director for Tastycake which is now Flowers Baking Company of Oxford, Inc. I asked Eric a variety of questions from his educational background, to his duties as director, and what the hardest parts of his job are. Mr. Maholmes is a middle aged man with a clean shaved face. He was wearing a button down shirt along with a tie and dress shoes. His appearance was very professional. He graduated from Friends University in Kansas with a Bachelor degree in Human Resources and is currently half way through his Masters Program. I asked Mr. Maholmes to explain to me his system for prioritizing his human resource projects and what drives the departments focus. His response was that he tends to do things the “old fashion way” by writing everything is his calendar and day planner. He checks his email very frequently and puts each of the projects in order from highest priority to lowest priority and uses his best desecration to do so. Regarding innovations in the work area Mr. Malhomes is in the process of making a computerizing hiring process where everything can be done online. I thought this was very interesting considering we just read in the book about the selection of employees and being able to have applications online. I thought it was important to ask a few questions that pertain to having to make difficult decisions and the sexual harassment training in the work place. When asked about a time where Eric had to make a difficult decision that involved disciplinary action or termination and how he handled it, he responded that most terminations are self inflicted. He explained this to me by saying that most of the terminations have to deal with insubordination and the employee knows
Interview of a HR Manager / Specialist
For my interview of a HR manager or specialist I chose to interview someone from a popular company who has a plant local to where I live in Oxford, PA. I interviewed Eric Maholmes the Human resource director for Tastycake which is now Flowers Baking Company of Oxford, Inc. I asked Eric a variety of questions from his educational background, to his duties as director, and what the hardest parts of his job are. Mr. Maholmes is a middle aged man with a clean shaved face. He was wearing a button down shirt along with a tie and dress shoes. His appearance was very professional. He graduated from Friends University in Kansas with a Bachelor degree in Human Resources and is currently half way through his Masters Program. I asked Mr. Maholmes to explain to me his system for prioritizing his human resource projects and what drives the departments focus. His response was that he tends to do things the “old fashion way” by writing everything is his calendar and day planner. He checks his email very frequently and puts each of the projects in order from highest priority to lowest priority and uses his best desecration to do so. Regarding innovations in the work area Mr. Malhomes is in the process of making a computerizing hiring process where everything can be done online. I thought this was very interesting considering we just read in the book about the selection of employees and being able to have applications online. I thought it was important to ask a few questions that pertain to having to make difficult decisions and the sexual harassment training in the work place. When asked about a time where Eric had to make a difficult decision that involved disciplinary action or termination and how he handled it, he responded that most terminations are self inflicted. He explained this to me by saying that most of the terminations have to deal with insubordination and the employee knows