Human Resource Management

I don't have a lot of work experience but one summer I worked at a probation office, just doing simple filing work. When I got there I noticed that there were a lot of people there my age. During orientation they didn't really give us specific jobs to do, so basically we had to help people around the office. What end up happening was, there was about ten of us separated into two huge rooms doing simple filing work. In the beginning there were basically mountains of papers to be filed, which makes me think that no one has bothered doing the job. Often I would find the same copy of the paperwork randomly in the pile. Of the people that were hired about three of the ten people actually worked. After about a month we finished filing the pile of paperwork that was there, so we had nothing else left to do. For the remaining month we just sat around the filing rooms doing nothing except filing a small amount of paperwork throughout the day.

I believe that if the process of "Attraction" was done better, this problem could have been avoided. First they hired more employees than needed. Second the people they chose were not serious about their work. They also didn't give us a general idea of what we had to do and seemed like they just thought of it on the spot. There were almost no supervision at the work place which allowed some of the employees to slack off.

All these problems could have been avoided if prior to the hiring process, they did a better job determining the amount of people they needed. The hiring process was also really easy, just a quick simple interview. They should also have had someone supervising us so actual work could be accomplished.