Selection

Prof. Nishit Sinha

OB-HRM, IIM I
5. Recruitment Funnel Effectiveness

Source:https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/
feature/5-keys-to-a-killer-recruitment-marketing-strategy
Making the Hiring Decisions

• Let us Discuss: Microsoft Excel

Worksheet

• Shall We Hire for Position or Competence?

• Identify the parameters

• Generate absolute weightage
• Do simple calculation
Selection : Deadly traps
• The reactive approach
• Unrealistic Specifications
• Evaluating people in absolute terms
When does Your
• Accepting people at face value Company Need
• Believing references in entirety Outside Hiring Help?
• The “Just like me” bias
• Delegation gaffes
• Presence of Biases
Common Biases in Perceptual Decision Making

Confirmation
Anchoring Bias Availability Bias Stereotyping
Bias

Fundamental
Self-serving Overconfidence
Hindsight Bias Attribution
bias bias
Error
Biases in Numerical Decision Making
(Rs. 10000, with 50% probability)
(Rs. 5000, 100% probability)
Something about Loss
(Loss of Rs. 10000, 50% probability)
(Loss of Rs. 5000, 100% probability)

Thaler and Kahneman

Selection Methods
• Screening through Tests
• Psychometric tests
• IQ Tests
• EQ tests
• Contextual tests
• Work Samples and Simulations
• Situational Judgement Tests
• Management Assessment Centers
• Interviews
Basics of testing

Reliability Validity
 Validating a Test
Analyze Analyze the Job

Choose Choose the tests

Administer Administer the test

Relate Relate the test score with the criteria

 Validating a Test
Analyze Analyze the Job

Choose Choose the tests

Administer Administer the test

Relate Relate the test score with the criteria (Test-Retest)

Selections Methods

Work Samples and Situational Judgement Management

Simulations Tests Assessment Centers
 Structured
Interviews
Unstructured
HR Analytics: Behavioral Modeling to predict Renege

Can we put joining

Using Analytics to Predict
probability to the offers
Renege
made?