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Employee Selection and Testing Methods

The document outlines the importance of careful employee selection, emphasizing the need for effective testing characterized by reliability and validity. It discusses various types of tests, including cognitive abilities, motor skills, personality assessments, and interview techniques such as structured and situational interviews. Additionally, it highlights the significance of background investigations and reference checks in the selection process.

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Employee Selection and Testing Methods

The document outlines the importance of careful employee selection, emphasizing the need for effective testing characterized by reliability and validity. It discusses various types of tests, including cognitive abilities, motor skills, personality assessments, and interview techniques such as structured and situational interviews. Additionally, it highlights the significance of background investigations and reference checks in the selection process.

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Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Ltd.

1-1
Session 5&6
Chapter 6
Selecting Employees
Learning Objectives

Describe The Basic Factors of Testing and


1 Selecting Employee

2 Discuss Types of Test

3 Describe Interviewing Candidates

4 Describe The use of other selection technique


Objective 1
Describe The Basic
Factors of Testing and
Selecting Employee
Why is Careful Selection Important?

Improved Company’s
employee and performance
organizational depends partly on
performance employees
1 2

3 4

Help reduce
Costly to recruit
dysfunctional
and hire
behaviors at work
How to select the right person?

Need effective tests


What’s effective test?
Test includes 2 important characteristics:
1. Reliability
2. Validity
Two Important Test Characteristics
Objective 2
Describe Types of Test
1. Cognitive Abilities (thinking ability test)
2. Motor & Physical Abilities
Employers may use various tests to measure such motor
abilities as finger dexterity, manual dexterity, and reaction time,
static strength, dynamic strength, body coordination, and
stamina
3. Measuring Personality
4. Other Types of Tests

 Achievement Tests: measure knowledge


 Computerized Online Testing
 Work Samples & Simulation: Focus on measuring
job performance directly
Objective 3
Describe Types of
Interview
What is the interview ?
Types of interview
 Structure interview: directed interview, the same
questions are asked of all candidates

 Non-structured interview: interviewer asks questions as


they come to mind
Types of interview
 Types of Questions: classify interview by nature or content of
their questions, such as situational interviews, job-related
interviews, behavioral interviews, and stress interviews
Situational interview
Types of interview

Panel interviews are when a candidate interviews with a group


of people
Improve performance of Interviewing
Candidates

Online Interviews
Using functionalities such as
Skype, web-based “in-
person” interviews
=> Reduce travel and
recruitment costs
How to Conduct an Effective Interview

• Step 1: Design the Interview: prepare question


• Step 2: Review the Candidate’s Background: ask about their
studies, their experience, family…
• Step 3: Establish Rapport (Connection)
• Step 4: Ask Questions
• Step 5: Close the Interview: Leave time for questions and
answers between candidate and interviewer
• Step 6: Review the Interview : notes and give score
Objective 4
Describe Other Selection
Methods
Background Investigations &
Reference Checks
Collecting Background Information
Legal eligibility for employment, dates of employment,
military service, education, and ID…
criminal records, motor vehicle records, credit

Checking Social Networking Sites

Reference Check Effectiveness


Recommendation letter

=> Benefit: background checks are an inexpensive and


straightforward way to verify facts

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