*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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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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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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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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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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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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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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