BU354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Essential Selection, Job Performance, Extraversion And Introversion
Selection
Selection – the process of choosing among individuals who have been
recruited to fill existing or projected job openings
Suggested guidelines for avoiding negative legal consequences:
- ensure that all selection criteria and strategies are based on the job
description and specification
- adequately assess the applicant’s ability to meet performance standards or
expectations
- carefully scrutinize all information supplied on application forms/resumes
- obtain written authorization for reference checking from prospective
employees
- save all records/information obtained about the applicant during each stage
of the selection process
- reject applicants who make false statements on their application forms
Selection Ratio – the ratio of the number of applicants hired to the total
number of applicants
Selection Ratio = Number of Applicants Hired
Total Number of Applicants
Multiple-Hurdle Strategy – an approach to selection involving a series of
successive steps or hurdles
- only candidates clearing the hurdle are permitted to move on to the next
step
Steps in the Selection Process
1. Preliminary Applicant Screening
2. Selection Testing
3. Selection Interview
4. Background Investigation/Reference Checking
5. Supervisory Interview and Realistic Job Preview
6. Hiring Decision and Candidate Notification
Step 1. Preliminary Applicant Screening
- application forms and resumes are reviewed and those candidates not
meeting the essential selection criteria are eliminated first – the remaining
applications are examined and those candidates who most closely match the
remaining job specifications are identified and given further consideration
Step 2. Selection Testing
- tests and other selection techniques are only useful if they provide reliable
and valid measures
Reliability – the degree to which interviews, tests, and other selection
procedures yield comparable data over time; the degree of dependability,
consistency, or stability of the measures used
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