HR Recruitment & Selectoin: The Selection Process

HR Recruitment & Selectoin: The Selection Process

1. Background Information

   • Might Include the highest levels of education obtained, college majors and minors, university of college attended, years and type of wor experience, & mastery of foriegn languages
     • Screen out applicants who are lacking key qualifications
     • Determine which qualified employees are more promising than others
     • Uncover any negative information such as crime convictions

2. Interviews

   • Structured Interviews
     • Managers ask the same standard questions
       • Situational Interview Questions: Scenarios that employees would likely encounter onteh job
   • Unstructured Interviews
     • An Ordinary Conversation
       • Probing questions to discover what the applicant is like
         • Less Subjective
         • Less Influenced by interviewer's biases

3. Paper and Pencil Tests

   • Ability Tests
     • i.e. Verbal & Numercal
   • Personality Tests
     • Relevant traits and characteristics

4. Physical ability Test

   • Measure Physical Strength & Stamina

5. Performance Tests

   • Performance on Actual Job Tasks

6. References

   • References from former employers or other knowledgeable sources
     • Used at the end of the selctions process

7. Reliability

   • The degree to which each test measures the same things each time it is administered

8. Validity

   • The degree to which each test measures what it prompts to measure/ predicts performance on tasks