HRM 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personnel Selection, Ath, Structured Interview

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 2600
• Professor: Michael Mc Garry

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Selection: the process of choosing individuals who have relevant qualifications to fill existing or projected job openings. Selection considerations: person-job fit, person-organization fit. Results of job analysis: job description + job specification. Obtaining reliable and valid information: reliability: the degree to which interviews, tests, and other selection procedures yield comparable data over time, validity: the degree to which a test or selection measures a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s attributes. Nondirective interview- an interview in which the applicant is allowed to maximum amount of freedom in determining the course of discussion, while the interviewer carefully refines from influencing the applicants remarks. Structured interview- an interview in which a set of standardized questions with an established set of answers are used. Situations interview- an interview in which the applicant is given a hypothetical incident and is asked how they would respond to it. Behavioural description interview (bdi)- an interview in which an applicant is asked questions about what they did in a given situation.