Verizon Leadership Development Program

As a Human Resource Management Consultant to Verizon, I have a plan on how to recruit and retain high-quality employees that will help the company predict future employee needs (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). My plan consists of using the seven step process known as the strategic human resource management process (Kinicki & Williams, 2013).
First, I would recruit prospective employees through social media or by using the Verizon Leadership Development Program (VLDP) (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). Social media gives a wide range of possible employees to choose from throughout a global market. The Verizon Leadership Development Program is a program that’s used to recruit the best college graduates. VLDP covers a wide range of departments.

“VLDP currently sponsors Finance, Network Operations, Engineering, IT, Human Resources, and Marketing” (Kinicki & Williams, 2013, p. 258).
Second, my best employees will be retained by using the Verizon Lean Six Sigma program to train and prepare them to be the best qualified leaders for Verizon’s future (Freifeld, 2013). This program is great, because it covers every department and functional discipline (Freifeld, 2013). Each employee’s jobs are continually analyzed to make sure that they are neither over nor under qualified (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). This method is used to make sure that they are neither under nor over qualified for the job, and to also keep the job descriptions up to date with future changes (Kinicki & Williams, 2013).
In conclusion, my plan would follow the strategic human resource management process (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). This is made possible by recruiting through social media and the VLDP, retaining the best employees through Verizon’s training programs, and continually monitor their job descriptions to keep up with changes (Kinicki & Williams, 2013).