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Selection
HRM351 1
Strategic HRM

Figure 1.1
Human Resource Management Practices
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Selection
 Lesson Objectives
1. Describe the selection process.
2. Describe various methods of selection.
3. Develop questions and marking schemes for
structured interviews.
4. Understand biases and fairness in selection.

Recruitment
 Recruitment
- Process of identifying and
encouraging employees to
apply for the job.
- Positive in its approach as it
seeks to attract as many
candidates as possible.
Selection
- Is concerned with picking up
the right candidates from a
pool of applicants.
- Negative in its approach as it
eliminate as unqualified
applicants as possible in
order to identify the right
candidates.
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Risk in
recruitment
and
selection
 Selection process
Screening
Applications Interviewing
and Resumes Candidates Making a Selection

Testing and Checking

Reviewing References and
Work Samples Background

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Screening Applications and Resumes
● Application forms
○ Contact information
○ Work experience
○ Educational background
○ Applicant’s signature

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Screening Applications and Resumes
● Resumes
○ Applicants control the
content of information and
presented way.
○ Employers use resumes for
deciding which candidates
to investigate further.

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Testing and Reviewing Work Samples
● Aptitude tests: assess how well a person can learn or
acquire skills and abilities.
○ Cognitive Ability Tests: Test designed to measure
such mental abilities as verbal skills, quantitative
skills, and reasoning ability.
● Achievement tests: measure a person’s existing
knowledge and skills.
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d
There are three time elephants than tigers in the
safari. If there is a total of 88 elephants and tigers,
how many elephants are there in the safari?
A. 22
B. 31
C. 43 E
D. 59
E. 66
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A. 4
B. 5
C. 6 D
D. 7
Interviewing Candidates
● Nondirective Interview
● Structured Interview
● Situational Interview
● Panel Interview
● Behavior Description Interview (BDI)

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Intervie
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Checking References and Background
● Background
○ Education
○ Employment (position, salary)
● References
○ Past employer
○ Company’s culture

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Making a Selection
● How organizations select employees
○ Multiple-Hurdle Model: Process of arriving at a
selection decision by eliminating some candidates at
each stage of the selection process.
○ Compensatory Model: Process of arriving at a
selection decision in which a very high score on one
type of assessment can make up for a low score on
another.
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Making a Selection
● Communicate the decision
○ Job responsibilities
○ Work schedule
○ Rate of pay
○ Starting date
○ Other relevant details

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Biases in
selection
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