Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Case Analysis We Googled You Final-2
Case Analysis We Googled You Final-2
Diego Lozano
Abstract
Hathaway Jones is a well-known goods retailer who is trying to hire young people, because their
innovative minds, all of these to become the pioneering company in the field as it was years ago.
One day a woman named Mimi wanted to be part of the new opening store in China, but she had
a questionable past that can put the company in a bad position. Mimi grew up in China, speaks
Mandarin fluently and a local dialect, she is a well-prepared woman whose education includes an
MBA from one of the best universities in the country and she re-launched two important brands
in the United States. Virginia Flanders who is the VP of Human Resources found some peculiar
things in the past of Mimi that could affect the opening of the new store in Shanghai just by
googling Mimi´s name. The problem here is should they hire Mimi for China´s operations? Fred
thinks that if he only hires people that are clean on google he would be missing some talented
Who knew that appearing in Google can be the difference between getting hired or
rejected? Today googling people before hiring them is must. Hathaway Jones a well-known
goods retailer needed to hire young people because of their innovative minds. The company was
trying to open a new store in China and Mimi was the excellent candidate to do it because their
knowledge of the Chinese culture, until one day the VP of human Resources found out a
Hathaway Jones was passing a difficult time and China's growing economy provided
huge opportunities in the luxurious market so Fred the CEO of the company was considering
hiring new prospects with fresh minds, younger people. Mimi a well-qualified Woman who grew
up in China and speaks fluent Chinese as well as a local dialect was the perfect option because
she was a well-prepared woman with an MBA from Stanford University and experience in re-
launching two big brands. Virginia Flanders the VP of human resources in the company found
some articles about Mimi´s past that involved her in protests against the World Trade
organization, what raised the red flag was that there was an image of her protesting China´s
Some people were asked about their positions about the situation. Jeffrey A. Joerres chief
executive office of Manpower, one of the largest employment companies in the world gave
several reasons why he would not hire her, he stated that “online content is public information
and is fair game for employers to ask about it”. Michael Fertik who is the CEO of
ReputationDefender, a company that dedicates to find and eliminate bad things from their clients
WE GOOGLED YOU 4
on the internet stated as well that hiring Mimi will bring bad reputation and problems to the
company. One of the opportunities seeing is reviving the company´s image by introducing the
brand in an emerging market as China. The luxurious cloth market demands a lot of creativity
Solution
The options for the solution are: 1.- Taking Mimi for China´s operations, 2.- Do not take
Mimi, 3.- Do more interviews and based on the answers take a call, 4.- Hire Mimi for American
operation but keeping her as a part of the Strategic Team of the Chinese operations. The best
option is hiring Mimi for American Operation but keeping her as part of the Strategic Team of
Chinese operation this will allow maintain a good image of Hathaway Jones in China. This will
give Hathaway Jones a talented, quality and creative employer. I think Fred should hire Mimi if
he thinks that is the best option, but he need to have a conversation with her as soon as possible
about how to handle potential challenges posed by employee’s online practices and Mimi needs
to express what are her thoughts on China today reflecting on how she has fine-tuned her
References
Coutu, D. (2007, June). We Googled You. Retrieved October 25, 2018, from
https://hbr.org/2007/06/we-googled-you-2