Selection Training

Organisations need to make accurate hiring decisions. That means bringing in people who have the right capabilities and fit-in with the organisation’s culture.

Selecting the wrong applicant for the job can be costly. In addition to costs involved in re-hiring and time lost, the most expensive element which tends to be ignored is the negative intangible aspects (such as the distrust, de-motivation, and low morale) brought in by the wrong people.

Notwithstanding this, many organisations continue to rely on ineffective and potentially detrimental practices to fill vacancies. Some of them have unstructured selection processes. Significant problems arise when applicants are interviewed by different managers with the same unstructured questions before they reach the final interview with the decision maker(s): Why do you want this job? Why did you leave XYZ Co Ltd? Tell me three things you would bring to this job and three things you need training in. Which job do you see yourself in 5 years’ time? etc.

Paradoxically, the applicant gets better and better at replying to such questions and seems confident and accomplished by then. They, however, have not become better candidates during the process. The fact is that previous interviews provided a dress rehearsal to better prepared them for the same questions at the final show!

There are companies which use a lengthy recruitment process. By the time they make up their minds, their potential candidates have become other companies’ employees. Like any other good products, good employees do not stay long on the shelf!

Without a sound selection process in place, companies are lucky if 20% of their workforce consists of top talent. It’s not because quality people aren’t available. Rather, that the selection processes fail to consistently identify the best candidate for a job.

Core Measures’ competency-based recruitment and interviewer training remove these problems.

Our ‘Selecting STARS’ competency-based selection system is a highly-integrated, accurate, fair and effective method of securing high performers.

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