ADM 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Essential Selection, Graduate Management Admission Test, Society For Human Resource Management
4 Apr 2016
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The process of choosing among qualified individuals who have been recruited to fill existing or projected job openings. Important because: quality of human resources determines organizational performance, high cost of inappropriate selection decisions: 000 cost for senior manager hiring mistakes (shrm: potential legal implications. Results of a job analysis: job description, job specification, ksao"s for success. Candidates not meeting essential selection criteria are eliminated first. Candidates who most closely match the job specifications are given further consideration. Use of technology- increasingly popular to assist with the initial screening process. Sometimes a screening interview (phone); internet checks; video resumes; application form . Weighted application bank (wab: responses weighted based on statistical relation to job performance. Biographical information blank (bib)/biodata test: biographical data predictive of job success is scored. Will discuss on thursday with marion from career centre. Interviewer training: practice makes perfect, beware of perceptual biases, other tips (see 10 ground rules for employer interviews on p. 209)
