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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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