Assignment task:
You are a graduating student in industrial relations and are being interviewed for the position of Industrial Relations Associate (Entry Level Position) with a local municipality whose workers are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The successful candidate will report to the Manager of Industrial Relations. Some of the key components of the job include:
- Conducting research (e.g. collective bargaining, grievance issues, arbitration cases, wage trends, etc.)
- Maintaining and updating industrial relations documents, databases and files;
- Providing input and recommendations for changes to industrial relations procedures and practices; and
- Other duties as requested by the Manager of Industrial Relations.
During the interview, one of the members of the interview panel asked you the following question:
Why should we hire you? It would a lot cheaper to hire a clerical worker to use ChatGPT and provide us with the answers to our industrial relations issues and concerns. Please outline what value you can add that we couldn't simply get from ChatGPT.