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9 Recruiting and Selection Tips to Ensure Success
Pradeep
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Hi All,

Please find the below mentioned 9 tips on recruiting and selection to ensure success on an employee in an organization. So please go tho' it and post ur views....



1. Hire for Today's Need and Tomorrow's Vision

Remember that you're hiring for the future. While a new employee has to make economic sense for today's tasks, the best hires are people who position you to profit as your business moves into the future. New people should provide the skills you need in the future, not just match the job demands you see today. Be clear about your strategic direction for the future, and then hire the talent to help you achieve it.



2. Understand the Job

Finding the right people to hire is much easier when you first analyze the job you want to fill. Ask yourself what kinds of people do the best in this job? If you're lucky enough to have a top performer already in the job, learn from them.



Observe their behavior, ask them questions and talk with their peers to get a clear understanding what characteristics make them effective in their job. This kind of job analysis drives your selection standards-do a good job at this first step and the rest of the hiring process will be faster, easier and yield a better match.



3. Be Legal

If an interviewee feels he has been denied a job because of discrimination, he can file a lawsuit.



If the claimant ultimately wins the lawsuit, remedies may include, among other things, compensatory damages, back wages, reinstatement and possibly punitive damages. Make sure your hiring process is legal.



4. Build a Standardized Hiring Process and Use It

Don't count on your conversational skills to choose between candidates. At a basic level, your standardized hiring process should include criteria-based screening of an adequate number of candidates, a background check, standardized assessments and structured interviews.



5. Hiring Top Talent Means More Profit

The right person will make contributions to your company's productivity and profitability that far exceed salary cost. But the wrong person can cost you plenty.



6. A Bad Hire Is Worse Than You Think

80 percent of turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions. These are costly mistakes. It costs one-third of a new hire's annual salary to replace him. These figures include money spent on recruitment, selection and training plus costs due to decreased productivity as other employees fill in to take up the slack.



5. Hiring Top Talent Means More Profit

The right person will make contributions to your company's productivity and profitability that far exceed salary cost. But the wrong person can cost you plenty.



6. A Bad Hire Is Worse Than You Think

80 percent of turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions. These are costly mistakes. It costs one-third of a new hire's annual salary to replace him. These figures include money spent on recruitment, selection and training plus costs due to decreased productivity as other employees fill in to take up the slack.

5. Hiring Top Talent Means More Profit

The right person will make contributions to your company's productivity and profitability that far exceed salary cost. But the wrong person can cost you plenty.



6. A Bad Hire Is Worse Than You Think

80 percent of turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions. These are costly mistakes. It costs one-third of a new hire's annual salary to replace him. These figures include money spent on recruitment, selection and training plus costs due to decreased productivity as other employees fill in to take up the slack.



7. Interviewing Doesn't Work

Traditional interviews don't help you select top talent. In fact, a large study found that a typical job interview increased the likelihood of choosing the best candidate by less than 2 percent.



8. The Most Neglected Aspect of Hiring

A job analysis is the most neglected aspect of hiring. Performed correctly, a job analysis provides a list of the personal attributes required to work effectively in the role. This list of attributes is identified first by breaking down a person's job into logical parts.



9. Matching People to Jobs

Once a business understands what the job demands, there are several tools that help identify the right people for the job. Candidate screening, personality and skill assessments, performance- based interviews and behavioral based interviews all help identify top candidates.



Regards

Pradeep

Sudhakarvas
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  Rated 0 | Posted 01-07-2009

Hi sir nice one...!

Kshitij
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

Hi Pradeep,

The Information you shared is really helpful.

Rhanks,
Kshitij

Ruchi
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

Hi Pradeep

Thanks for sharing !

Gurpreet
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

Hi,

Just one question - how can one make the hiring process as Legal?

Sumayya
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

Thanks for sharing valuable information...

Shalini
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

Pradeep

Could you refer me to any case studies in India about Discrimination tribunals (lawsuits)?

Any information would be very helpful.

Thanks.

Shalini

Richard
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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-07-2009

one more for your list...

If you have to get the very best person for a critical position can I suggest you run a 'games day'. You can link this with your testing procedures. Ask your training department to give you a series of games designed to assess communication abilities, teamwork and leadership skills. Have your trainers conduct the debriefs to help you assess the applicants competence in each area and to asses the applicants' general ability to learn and think on their feet. Your trainers should be doing this sort of experiential learning activity regularly as part of their job and therefore should be able to give you some valuable input as part of your selection process.

Ric http://www.orglearn.org/

Rashmi
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  Rated 0 | Posted 04-07-2009

Hi Pradeep,

Well as usual thanks for this information.
can u pls provide more info on payroll ?

Priya
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  Rated 0 | Posted 14-09-2009

Pradeep nice write up... pls answer the follolwing questions too :

How can u make a hiring process Legel?? what would be the parameters ? how can we say any hire has been hired legally??

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