Recruiting an Entry Level IT Employee: Job Description, Persona, and Performance Appraisal Template

You are a Departmental Manager of a medium sized IT organisation. The company has recently experienced significant growth and need to recruit employees to keep up with demand from their customers. Your area has been given budget to hire one new graduate into an entry level position.

You will prepare to recruit an employee by creating:

1. A Job description for a graduate level IT role in your fictitious organisation

2. An Employee persona representing the ideal candidate

3. A description (or diagram) of the onboarding process for the new recruit.

Creating a performance appraisal template that you would use to review the new employee after 6 months in the position

Creating a professional development plan (applying the 70:20:10 model)for the new employee that will be discussed at the 6 month review.

You have been provided with the following template on Moodle to assist with part one:

Job Description Template

The content of parts 1 and 2 above should be submitted to the online submission link on Moodle by the due date and time.  Submissions will checked for Plagiarism via Turn’It’In on submission to Moodle.

To obtain high marks for this assessment you must:

1. Create the Job Description and Performance Appraisal template with relevant technical and interpersonal skills

2. Design a persona that reflects the attributes (technical and personal) that the ideal candidate should possess

3. Design a clear onboarding process

4. Create  a realistic professional development plan for the role that follows the 70:20:10 model

5. Submit the content as one document which is free from spelling and grammar errors, has a table of contents and page numbering, and has a reference list as the last page showing sources of information (in APA format)