HRD CASE ANALYSIS 1. SG Cowen: New Recruits SG Cowen is a firm which was born when Société Générale bought Cowen and Company in 1998 and is mainly rooted in Boston. Its main interest is to focus on emerging growth companies in two volatile but highly profitable areas‚ health care and technology. The case is mainly about the company’s recruiting issues. SG Cowen has not invested on ‘On campus recruit’ because they didn’t have enough money to spend on that like other big competitors‚ JP Morgan
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Case Preparation Summary – SG Cowen Short-Cycle Summary SG Cowen‚ an investment bank‚ is in the process of hiring a new class of associates. In this process‚ there remain two available positions‚ and Chip Rae‚ the Director of Recruiting‚ and a group of 30 bankers have four candidates to choose from. The group is having a hard time deciding how they will extend the offers‚ primarily due to their different opinions based on an evaluation system that allows biased and inconsistent feedback. The time
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“SG COWEN: NEW RECRUITS” CASE STUDY MAJOR FACTS IN THE CASE SG Cowen is a financial firm in the U.S. that is running a hiring process‚ conducted by Chip RAE who is the director of recruiting at SG Cowen. The case shows the modality through which the hiring process for new outside associates‚ which begins in the fall‚ works. The company has different sources of recruiting associates: some analysts can be promoted to first-year associate after being
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SG Cowen: New Recruits There were several different key decision points used by SG Cowen in making hiring decisions on each stage of recruiting process. During the informational interview‚ team captains assigned to each schools weren’t particularly evaluating possible candidate. However‚ it did served two purposes: - To gauge some candidates are more serious and enthusiastic than others - To give candidates chance to learn more about the firm and industry before the interview that they will
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Selecting the Candidate for Extending a Job Offer at SG Cowen The recruiting committee of SG Cowen is facing an important decision in regards to selecting two persons from the pool of four remaining candidates after all definite “Yes” and “No” have been identified. Being the member of the Super Saturday hiring group from the company I would have to make a decision that would have a dual effect: * Being an associate of the company I am vested in its success which depends in a great degree on
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Amirose Panacherry Staffing and Selection Case study 2 11/17/2011 SG Cowen’s biggest strength in their overall hiring process is how invested they are in the whole process. The amount of time‚ effort and money SG Cowen puts into finding the best candidates is a strength they play upon to retain their clients and to make sure they stay focused in their market. Another benefit I see in their hiring process is the fact that they are fairly specific in what they are looking for‚
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*Case #1 :* *SG Cowen* The SC Cowen case revolves around the decision to offer potential candidates a job at the firm. The firm has two spots open‚ but they still have four candidates left. Each candidate has certain pros and cons so a trade-off needs to be made by the recruitment committee so that a decision can be made on who to hire. Reflect upon a time you had a negative recruiting/hiring experience. What were the signs that the experience was not going well? Explain My
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SG Cowen Analysis Problem Identification: SG Cowen’s strategy is to recruit the best possible MBA candidates from the top B-schools in the country into their associates program. However‚ unstructured interviewing and hiring processes may not allow for the overall best candidates to be chosen. Problem Analysis: SG Cowen’s hiring process is very challenging to its candidate in order to secure only the best talent available to them. The candidates that are even considered for interviews
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College of Business Administration MGT 352: Human Resource Management Group Project Case Study Analysis Harvard Business School Case #9-402-028: “SG Cowen: New Recruits.” Group 5 Bizik‚ Sedat Dögen‚ Serkan Gahn‚ Philip Kominek‚ Lukas Wenz‚ Eugen Group 5 Table of contents 1 Introduction .........................................................................................................3 2 The recruiting process ..........................................................................
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Case Analysis #1 1. What are the key decision points used by S.G. Cowen in making hiring decisions? What is your evaluation of the process used by the firm? The key decision points S.G. Cowen used in making hiring decision were two formal interviews and Super Saturday. To hire new employees‚ S.G. Cowen firstly sends team captains to each core schools to make company presentations and conduct ‘informational interviews’ as a supporting activity for formal process. And after receiving resumes from
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