A Term Paper on Employers Preferred Competencies for Business Graduate Recruitment

A Term Paper on Employers Preferred Competencies for Business Graduate Recruitment

Course Title: Training and Development Course Code: HRM 415 Section: 1

Submitted to Laila Zaman Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University

Submitted by Group Members Name Md. Faisal Hasan Saikat Saha Shenjuti Shabnam K.M. Rezwanul Abeer Eva Farzana Md. Nasir Uddin Rony ID 2009-1-10-289 2009-1-10-182 2009-1-10-177 2009-1-10-083 2008-1-10-120 2008-1-10-075

Date of submission: July 30, 2012

Table of Content

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Title Introduction Origin of the Report Objective of the Report Methodology of the Report Limitation of the Report Preferred Background Preferred Graduating Institution Preferred Graduating Major for Recruitment Preferred CGPA of Graduates Interpersonal Skills Decision Skills Information Role Personal Values & Characteristics

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Acknowledgement
At the very beginning we would like to express our deepest thanks and appreciation to our honorable course coordinator Laila Zaman Who has been very much friendly and approachable to us through the course and has given us his valuable time, guideline and advice through the preparation of the term paper from the selection of the topic and down to the analysis the theory and practical scenarios. We would also like to express our appreciation to the people who have helped all through the project work. We are also grateful to the participants of our survey. They spent their valuable times for giving us interview. We would like to thank our all group members who were very much friendly and sincere to complete the project work. Above all, this term paper is a combined effort of the sincerity, efficiency and determination of all the group members. However, we hope that this course as well as this project work experience will help us to build our career in a successful and precise way in this arena. Finally, we seek excuse for the errors that might have occurred in spite of the best of our efforts.

Literature Review
The assigned project is an outcome of the surveys on different companies and their employers preferred competencies for business graduate recruitment. The main purpose of the survey is to find what competencies an applicant should while recruitment. Competencies are the demonstrable characteristics of an employee, including knowledge, skill and attitude that enable performance. The assigned project helped to understand that competencies are the combination of knowledge, skill and attitude. The project was to survey on 5 different domestic and multinational companies and find out what sort of competencies they focus on and how do they rank them. From our survey, we came to know that these companies such as: Singer Bangladesh Ltd, SanofiAventis Bangladesh Ltd, Airtel, Exim Bank and Square Pharmaceuticals focus on different competencies like interpersonal skills, decisions skills, information role, and personal values and characteristics. The purpose of this survey was to find out how do these companies emphasize or rank these competencies according to their employers preference. Different companies rank them in different numbers. That means in some companies they are most preferred, in some they are least. The purpose of the project found out to be a successful one because; competencies are useful understanding how the knowledge skill and attitudes combine to influence job performance.

Executive Summery
At present time there are many MNCs who have started their activities and many more are showing interest to do business in Bangladesh. Most of these MNCs need to hire business graduates from the top level to bottom; in every level of the hierarchy. These MNCs are from different industries and they highly differ from each other in many aspects. As the activities are different, the requirement of these MNCs is also different in manner. Keeping this on mind, employers from these MNCs have their own preferred competencies to recruit business graduates. This study is based on the preferred competencies of 5 top MNCs of Bangladesh to recruit business graduates. This assignment includes complete study on what is preferred and why that is preferred to hire business graduates in 5 top MNC in Bangladesh named: Singer Bangladesh Ltd, Sanofi-Aventis Bangladesh Ltd, Square Pharmaceuticals, Airtel Bangladesh and Exim Bank. To prepare this assignment a survey has been conducted on the employers preference o competencies or skills to recruit business graduates. The employers preferred business graduates educational institution, gender, specialized subject and graduation completion score is collected. Based on that what interpersonal skill and decision skills is necessary and complete interpretation of each response are discussed in the assignment. Moreover, what informational role they want to be played and personal values & characteristics are necessary is also been identified in details in the report. All the MNCs are from different industries which also ensure the reliability of the study. So, this study will help to get the clear scenario to understand what the business graduates required to be recruited by MNCs in Bangladesh.