recruiting by examining the recruitment process of SG Cowen. SG Cowen has a pioneer approach to recruiting therefore they have a quality of associates that is second to none. Their approach to recruiting combines common sense and consistency to recruit the most valuable associates. By changing their tactics from recruiting at only the top 10 schools‚ to recruiting at other non-core schools has given them a greater variety in the quality of their recruits. This approach is both realistic and sensible
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SG Cowen: New Recruits Case Write-up SG Cowen‚ is a boutique investment bank‚ was born in July 1998. With the purpose of being competitive in investment bank industry‚ SG Cowen is to attract the highest-quality professional associates among top schools and some from outsides. As other firms in winter and spring every year‚ SG Cowen again is in hiring process to fill a new class of associates. After hiring process‚ there are two spots remaining out of four people in the “maybe” category. Chip Rae
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What are the key decision points/elements of the recruitment process at SG Cowen? SG Cowen has a very demanding recruitment process for new associates. The process consists of multiple “rounds”‚ begins in the fall of each year and comes to a close at the end of “Super Saturday”‚ which is the final round of the process. On Super Saturday‚ candidates core business schools are interviewed for positions of associates. The key elements of the recruitment process are: The targeting to the next
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Reflect upon a time you had a negative recruiting/hiring experience. What were the signs that the experience was not going well? Explain So far until now I’ve not had a negative hiring experience. However‚ I was responsible for recruiting volunteers for the International Wikimedia Conference in 2007. We advertised on the most popular online forum of college students and got 159 responses in one month and a half. We didn’t make any selection at first as we felt we needed as many volunteers as possible
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DILEMMA AT S.G. COWEN S.G. Cowen is an investment bank that is active on Wall Street and that focuses its recruitment activities on the last 15 schools of the top 25 US business schools. After having established a coherent strategy‚ Rae (head of recruitment) sent S.G. Cowen bankers to recruitment events on universities’ campuses to recruit for Super Saturday. Thirty students that had passed the on-campus rounds were invited to the major recruitment event ‘Super Saturday’ at S.G. Cowen‚ New York. The thirty
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SG COWEN: NEW RECRUITS | COURSE ID: HRM301SECTION: 04 | COURSE LECTURER:MS. SABIN RAHMAN | TEAM MEMBERSNAME: NAFEES REZAID: 1120277NAME: TAMZID RABBYID: 1130419NAME: ABU HENA MOSTAFA AWALID: 0910373NAME: MD. GOLAM GAUS SOLAIMAN CHOWDHURYID: 0830079NAME: FAISAL AHMEDID: 1010193 | SUBMISSION DATE:27TH FEBRUARY‚ 2013 | 1. WHAT ARE THE KEY DECISION POINTS USED BY S. G. COWEN IN MAKING HIRING DECISION? WHAT IS YOUR EVALUATION OF THE PROCESS USED BY THE FIRM? – 03 2. WHAT IS YOUR EVALUATION
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SC HUMAN RESOURCES II Case Analysis. SG Cowen: New Recruits Reading questions: 1. Do you have prior experience with recruiting and hiring (as a candidate)? If so‚ based on your experience‚ what were signs that the process was going well or was not going well? Based on my experience‚ the most important signs that the process was going well were: - The interviewer acted interested‚ polite‚ listened carefully‚ asked good questions and
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SG Cowen – Case 1 1. Only once I had a negative hiring experience. I applied for a sales job for a credit company. The process was less common than any other hiring experience I ever had. The interview was a group based interview and two managers were interviewing us. Since it concerned a sales job they searched for dominant‚ easy speaking and convincing employees. The managers tried to intimidate the group to test how we would behave under such pressure. There was a round in which we had to present
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21 July 2009 SG Cowen Case Analysis Chip Rae and SG Cowen have a very demanding candidate recruitment‚ selection and hiring process for new external associate hires. It is without a doubt directed to securing only the most talented personnel that is available to them. Only the top notch candidates with exceptional education and/or job accomplishments are even considered for interviews. The stringent process consists of multiple “rounds” and begins in the fall of each year when SG Cowen’s recruiting
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S.G. Cowen Case Assignment The firm originates from the purchase of Cowen and Company by French international bank‚ Société Générale‚ in 1998‚ thus merging into S.G. Cowen. As stated by their CEO‚ Kim Fennebresque‚ the investment bank focused predominantly on emerging growth companies in two volatile but possibly highly lucrative industries‚ healthcare and technology. The company is looking to recruit‚ from a wide range of candidates‚ for its associate program. The recruiting director‚ Chip Rae
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