Question

Congratulations! You have been selected as the winner of the most promising MBA graduate, and an anonymous angel investor has agreed to bankroll your new startup business – the caveat is, he wants this business to be located in Hawaii. Therefore, you will have to comply with U.S. and Hawaii hiring, wage and benefit requirements.

His requirement is that it is not a one-person operation, but needs to start off with three to five employees in different positions. He is going to give you a limited recruitment and on-boarding budget of $15,000, so you will need to monitor advertising and other expenses. He wants to see a plan for how you are going to find, recruit and train your team. (For the sake of the exercise, don’t worry about the costs of equipment, material etc. that you will need to start your business – this is about getting the people).

In your plan, you will need to identify what sort of business you are going to open. Once you have decided that, you will need to determine what tasks need to be done in order to operate your business, so that you will know how many people you need and what knowledge, skills and abilities they will need to have.

• What type(s) of interview(s) will you conduct, and why.

Answer 1

First of all, the business I will go for is to provide Private ambulance service to either hospitals or Private company's Warehouses, where there are probabilities of happening hazardous/dangerous activity for an instance Steel Industry, Cracker's Factory etc.

For getting this plan on road, We will have to recruit following kind of persons:-

1. Tender personnel - we would need an employee who know better about tenders and its terms and conditions, who will be helping in finding out the nature of Ambulance tender we wants to possess, This candidate may be a person who has done his graduation in commerce and have degree of Bachelor of Business administrations. This employee will be helping us in fulfilling all the necessary conditions needs to be fulfilled to file the private tender i.e. Licence, documentation etc.

2. Operations personnel - We will be needing an employee who has the knowledge of operations of this business (kind of) like how to setup and install the equipment which will be required to operate the business i.e. Dialler, Computer, GPS, etc., This candidate will be having degree of MBA and Bachelor in Information technology.

3. Driver and paramedic - We will need three drivers (for three shifts of 8 hours) to drive the Ambulance, who must be a professional driver with heavy motor vehicle license, Further, we need three paramedics (for three shifts of 8 hours) who has the knowledge similar to a doctor who can treat the patient initially up to the transfer of patient to the hospital, this candidate can be a person has dropped MBBS or a compounder or who has a certification of nursing and medical academy.

4. Accountant - We will also need an accountant to deal with all the accounts, inventory related aspects, this candidate can be a person having done his graduate as Bachelor of commerce.

That's it, Now after hiring the above given personnel step by step, we can initiate our business of providing private ambulance to private vendors.