Pre Employment Assessment: It’s Crucial To Be Vigilant
Hiring suitable employees for an organization is not an easy task for the HR professionals. Simply interviewing a candidate leave many significant questions unanswered, which can prove to be crucial for the job. This can often lead to mistakes committed by HR professionals when hiring employees. Mistakes committed by HR professionals can usually be classified into two categories, namely, hiring undeserving employees and rejecting deserving ones. In order to avoid these mistakes, HR personnel have tools available to assist them in their daunting task.
The tools employed by HR personnel to screen the employees form a significant portion in the hiring process. Some of the most important tools that are used include the following:
1.Behavioral interviewing – The candidate is asked a predefined set of questions and his/her body language while answering those is noted. Skilled HR personnel are trained to spot even tiny anomalies in a candidate’s attitude and body language; one misplaced blink, an uncertain look on the face for a moment, or fidgeting during the interview are all telltale signs of a candidate’s lack of confidence.
2. Personality assessment – This consists of a set of questions that test a candidate’s confidence level, and reliability. The responses to these answers allow a HR professional to determine whether a candidate has an unstable temper, or whether his lack of confidence prevents him from succeeding in career, in spite of having solid skill sets.
3.Applicants’ background screening – This is done with the help of third party screening service providers, and gives a detailed outlook of a person’s eligibility for a job. The agencies can screen a candidate’s criminal records, credit reports, and cross check a candidate’s educational qualification.
4.Reference check – This is done on the basis of references provided by the candidate, and gives a picture of his/ her temperament, honesty in attitude and whether he/she has the ability to work hard. This process simply involves calling up the persons whose reference the candidate has provided, and asking them specific questions about the candidate.
HR personnel need to create a foolproof plan to make sure that their candidate screening procedures are not biased in any way. Their assessments about an employee must not be guided by any sort of prejudices. Besides, it is important to hire the services of a reliable employee screening agency, in order to make sure that the information dug up by the agency is reliable.
Modern day interviewing techniques could also include taking the candidate to lunch and assess how they interact socially. Also, put them in situations that they may encounter on the job and see how they handle the stress. If necessary, the candidate's responses can be recorded to review with different levels of people within the organization. In short, the interview process should be organized in such a way as to get a full and complete picture of the candidate within a limited period of time.
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