Staffing Plan and Recruitment strategies

Introduction
As a current graduate of the University of Phoenix we have been given the responsibility to create a Human Resource department. Our role as HR director for SMC Company, which manufactures ergonomic office equipment, is to boost staffing by 100% due to the increased demand. The owner is committed to keeping the organization local. SMC is located in a small midwestern town of 30,000 people with a current unemployment rate of 2.2%. All of the current employees in manufacturing, customer service and operations have a minimum of a high school education or GED. The local labor market population is approximately 40% minority. Skills training is provide by the company.
This paper will describe a staffing plan for the SMC Company in which it will be determined how many people will be hired and in what function areas (manufacturing, operations, customer service, distribution, marketing, finance /accounting). We will demonstrate a strategy to recruit the appropriate applica...