Candidate Selection Criteria

Below are the few tasks before the interviewing process in candidate's selection:

☛ The job requirements

☛ The resumes

☛ The interview time

☛ Candidates list

☛ Confirm the timings

When it comes to the interview itself, make sure that you confirm the timings with the person who is appearing for the interview. Once a mutual timing is decided on, make sure that you get a confirmation via email before you make arrangements for the interview.

While interviewing the individual, first make sure that you find out about the professional past of the person. Try to find out the interviewee's first job and other relevant details about his or her professional and personal life. You also want to verify his or her qualifications, education, courses and lessons.

After you have the information in place, make a list of all the individuals who are supposed to come for the interview, making a note of the times that they would be coming in, along with the questions that you are supposed to ask them. This goes a long way in helping you picture the candidate, long after the candidate is gone, and would help you in remembering any intricacy of the interview.

The next process would be to call the individuals and set up an interview time. Make sure that you place your interviews in such a way that you have ample time to speak and know the interviewee as much as you might want to know.

Once this is done, you should begin to take in the resumes and file them. You should then look into the resumes and decide which ones are viable for your company.

You have to make a table jotting down all these aspects in a single file. Some of the aspects that should come out are:

☛ What type of employee would better fit your organization?

☛ What are the skills that your organization is looking for?

Your first task when planning to fill a vacancy is to identify and define the criteria you will use to assess and evaluate potential candidates. This approach allows you to avoid common selection problems, consistently evaluate each candidate and be in a better position to hire strong performers.

The department head must determine the method they will use for measuring each criterion. The choices are:

☛ Interview

☛ Work Sample

☛ Application, Cover Letter, Resume

☛ References

☛ Writing Sample

The teams system has five pre-determined selection criteria and the option of adding two additional criteria designed specifically for the position.

Selection criteria go beyond minimum qualifications and look at quantity, quality, and relevancy of education, experience, knowledge and other skills that each applicant possesses. Selection criteria also include qualifications that may be unique to the particular job and the particular department rather than the more general minimum qualifications. When applicants are compared to each other and selection criteria are applied, the best-qualified candidate can be selected.

Minimum qualifications are used to screen applicants by comparing their qualifications to those minimally necessary to do the job. Minimum qualifications for non-instructional positions are found in teams under Position Descriptions.

Selection criteria are used to determine the best-qualified applicant from among all of the candidates who have met the minimum qualifications and were selected for an interview for the particular position.

In order to fill an open University position and to find the best qualified applicant for the position, applicants must be judged by using clearly defined standards or criteria which reflect the specific needs of the department. Two sets of standards are used in screening applicants. These are:

☛ Minimum Qualifications

☛ Selection Criteria

The following are interviewing questions to ask the candidate as well as the basic criterion and interviewing tips for selecting a job candidate:

☛ The professional past of the candidate

☛ The technical aspects - professional skills

☛ The balance

☛ Initiator or a follower

☛ The attitude

☛ The answers

☛ Body language

☛ Documentation

☛ The salary

☛ The time-frame - (Availability)

The interview should make it a point to get a clear picture about the time-frame that they are looking at, in case they hire the interviewee. With a concrete time-frame in mind, the interviewer is free to decide and discuss about whether the potential candidate is the best person for the job at hand.

If the interviewee has informed you about any references, allow the interviewee to speak about them. With this, you can get to cross check whatever the interviewee has informed you about them earlier. Also, you can also cross check these facts, later on when you give a call to the references. If the references that the interviewee has provided are his or her previous managers or colleagues, the interviewer should try to know the former-mutual-contact experiences.

The salary is quite an integral part of the final decision whether the individual would join the organization. The salary also plays an integral part in the interviewer's decision whether the interviewee is perfect for the organization. Therefore, the interviewer should find out the expected salary of the interviewee, and also gauge whether the individual would bargain or negotiate about the salary.

The interviewer should make sure that all the documentation and formal information that might be needed for the quick process of hiring are presented and collected as soon as possible. Apart from the academic qualifications, the interviewer should also ask about any hobbies or extracurricular activities that the interviewer has taken part in.