How to Recruit & Select – 5 top tips!
1) Ensure a robust job description/person specification is in place; you can’t recruit without this basic document.
2) Develop a job advert and best place to advertise – on the net, local paper, specialist journal – the role and the target market decides this
3) Develop a structured interview process – decide who is on panel, what will you say about the company and job, questions, ability test (or even an assessment day if it’s a senior manager or graduate position)
4) Short-list using a grid to avoid discrimination, invite chosen candidates to interview
5) Chose the best candidate on the day and provide a structured induction.
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Interesting and useful tips there! Only one thing I would add somewhere between 4 and 5 is, every member of the panel needs to keep a record of all the interviews. Doing it on a grid is good, but you also need to record the answers from each candidate. Not verbatim, of course, just enough so each panel member can be reminded of what they thought of each one at the interview.
You have to be pessimistic and assume that at some stage, somebody is going to make you justify your choice.
Also, unsuccessful candidates are entitled to feedback, so you need to know what you thought of them and why.
You are so right, Ruth – taking fairly detailed notes on responses is critical and [hands held high] an ommission which I shall add to a presentation I am preparing at the moment.