Qualifying Candidates for your Organisation!
Do you question the candidate about their knowledge of the company?
Choose a candidate that not only has the right skills and experience for the job, but one who has a genuine interest in working for your company. Question the candidate about their knowledge of the company and what they will bring to the position and the team!
Are you providing enough details about your organisation?
Providing more detail about your organisation in a job listing can serve two purposes. First, the strategy can be used to weed out candidates who may not be interested in working for your type of company. For example, some professionals may not want to work for a nonprofit or a government agency. Second, if you play up your company and its attributes, you may attract more of the best and the brightest candidates available.
Do you really know what you want?
The first step to finding the right candidate is to know who you are looking for. As deceivingly simple as this sounds, it is the most complex and difficult step in the entire sourcing process. You will need to spend a lot of time with your hiring managers and in the business units that you support building a deep and thorough understanding of the competencies, skills and attitudes key players have that lead to their success. You need to find out who the best (most productive) employees are and spend time figuring our what they have in common that makes them successful.
Are you qualifying your candidate through competency criteria?
a. Essential skills required for the role, validating what is really an essential skill and what can be learnt on the job. For technical skills, ensure testing is completed. Non Technical skills, references from past Managers.b. Actual applicable experience, as opposed to 'years' of experience. A specialist or a generalist.c. Team fit. If you cannot get a person you get along with, your working environment will be uncomfortable, stressful and unproductive! Remember, you spend more hours in the day with people at work that you do with your family or friends. Make the right choice and have a positive uplifting working environment.
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