Hiring Process
How do you select the right person for your business? There is no perfect answer, but the interview process can be a tremendous help if you use it effectively. Remember that interviewing candidates for a position within your company is one of the final steps in the hiring process. Before you get to this point, you will have completed several preliminary steps, all of which will have a direct impact on how effective the interview process will be.
Below is a list of the steps involved in the hiring process. The key steps to finding the right person to fill a position in your company are:
- Determining your need to hire a new employee. Are you properly utilizing the skills and talents of your current employees? Do you know what needs to be done? Can your business growth support a new employee?
- Conducting a thorough job analysis. What are the job's essential functions and key performance criteria?
- Writing a job description and job specification for the position based on the job analysis.
- Determining the salary for the position, based on internal and external equity. Is the salary comparable and proportional with the salaries and responsibilities of other positions inside your company as well as similar positions out in the marketplace?
- Deciding where and how to find qualified applicants. What are the appropriate recruitment techniques? What is the time frame for conducting your search? Remember, advertising is not the only, or necessarily the best, way to recruit.
- Collecting and reviewing a fair amount of applications and resumes and then selecting the most qualified candidates for further consideration.
- Interviewing the most qualified candidates for the position, based on the job's description and specification.
- Checking references.
- Hiring the best person for the job.
Hopefully, after reviewing all of the resumes, you will be able to pick and choose a select number of qualified applicants to interview. If not, you may want to expand your time frame and rewrite any ad copy and/or look at another recruitment technique.
References:
• Small Business Administration
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