Creating a Project Schedule for Hiring a New Employee In this project, you will create a project schedule for the process of hiring a new employee for your department. GET READY. OPEN a new blank project schedule. Set the project start date to be October 21, 2019. Enter the following tasks and durations:

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Project 1-3: Creating a Project Schedule for Hiring a New Employee
In this project, you will create a project schedule for the process of hiring a new employee for your department.

GET READY. OPEN a new blank project schedule.

Set the project start date to be October 21, 2019.
Enter the following tasks and durations:
Task    Duration
Write job description    2d
Notify departmental recruiter    1d
Post job internally    5d
Post job externally    5d
Collect résumés    10d
Review résumés    5d
Set up interviews    3d
Conduct interviews    8d
Select candidate    1d
Make offer    milestone
Assign a finish-to-start relationship to all the tasks.
Change the relationship between tasks 3 and 4 to a start-to-start relationship.
Auto-fit all the columns and rows.
Change all tasks to the Automatically Scheduled mode.
Use the statistics button on the Project Information dialog box to determine the current project duration.
SAVE the project schedule in the solutions folder for this lesson as Hiring Employee xxd where the xx in the file name is the duration (in days) of the project. (For example, if the project is 13 days long, save the file as Hiring Employee 13d.) CLOSE the file.
LEAVE Microsoft Project open for the next exercise.

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