Candidate 1 A person with only 2 years of marketing experience and who wants a f

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Candidate 1 A person with only 2 years of marketing experience and who wants a full-time job. By hiring them full-time, you will have their full attention, be able to direct their workflow and require them to be in the office every day at the times you set. If hiring this candidate, you will have a long-term commitment to their salary and will have to pay taxes and benefits for them.

Candidate 2 A person with 10 years of marketing experience and who only wants to be a contractor or contracted employee. By hiring them, you will get more experience, greater capabilities, less training time required, only have to pay them for the actual hours worked, and not be responsible for taxes or benefits. However, their hourly pay will be considerably higher, they will have other clients demanding their time and attention, and they may not always be available at the times you need them.

After you have considered each candidate, answer the following: Which candidate would you choose? Why? What are the major advantages and disadvantages in making the choice you have decided to make? Before officially hiring the candidate of choice, what other steps do you need to make prior to officially offering them the job?

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As an employer, I will go ahead with the person with 10 years of marketing experience who desires to be a contracted employee.

This will provide more experience and greater capabilities compared to the person with 2 years of marketing experience. Even though hourly may be considerably higher for contracted job; it will be convenient compared to the training that the inexperienced candidate will require.
There will be also be saving on taxes and the benefits that otherwise the person with 2 years of experience will have to be paid. Contractors will end up being less cheaper compared to full-time employees.
What will be beneficial for the company will be the specialised skill sets that the highly experienced contractor will bring and fit the needs of the company.

These are the following steps that I will include after picking the candidate.

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