SELECTION
Having successfully attracted people to your job vacancy, how do you select the people to shortlist? Do you just interview people or do you also apply ability tests and personality questionnaires? How do you select and identify raw talent such as apprentices, clerical trainees, graduate trainees as opposed to experienced people where you can assess track record? Do you have a different approach dependent upon the nature of the vacancy?
Selecting someone to join your business is an absolutely critical decision. The wrong decision can prove very costly. There can be no guarantees with the selection process but Blue Star Human Resources can help you reduce the risks involved.
Blue Star Human Resources can work with you to:
- put in place a selection policy geared to the needs of your business.
- know the law so far as selection is concerned.
- ensure you know the skills and attributes you are looking for in the suitable candidates.
- ensure you know how to select the right people to shortlist from the CVs or application forms presented to you.
- choose and deliver the most effective selection tools – interviews, psychometric tests, group exercises, presentation, assessment centre, so that you have confidence in the reasons for your recruitment decisions.
- carry out business specific assessment centres.
- carry out interviews using a variety of different methods including competency based interviewing.
- train managers in interviewing techniques and the importance of diversity and equal opportunities when making selection decisions
- understand the importance of non verbal means of assessment e.g. body language.
- provide feedback to successful and unsuccessful candidates.