Recruitment & Selection

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 The Five Steps
• Positions to be filled
• Pool of candidates
• Applications and screening
• Selection tools
• Make an offer

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 Review
• Positions
• Candidates
• Screening
• Selection
• Offers

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 Forecasting the Supply of
Outside Candidates
• Talent management
• Action planning for
labor supply and
demand
• The recruiting yield
pyramid

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 The Need for Effective
Recruiting

• Why recruiting is important

• What makes recruiting a challenge?
• Organizing how you recruit
o The supervisor’s role

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 Internal Sources of
Candidates
• Using internal sources
• Finding internal candidates
• Rehiring
• Succession planning
o Identify key needs
o Develop inside candidates
o Assess and choose
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 Outside Candidates
• Internet recruiting
o Online recruiting
o Texting
o Dot-jobs
o Virtual job fairs
o Tracking
o Effectiveness
• Advertising – media
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 Other Sources of
Candidates
• College recruiting
o On-campus recruiting goals
o The on-site visit
o Internships

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 Recruiting a More Diverse
Workforce
• Single parents
• Older workers
• Recruiting minorities
• Disabled workers

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 Why Careful Selection is
Important
• Performance
• Cost
• Legal obligations
• Person and job/organization fit

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 Explaining what is meant
by reliability and validity

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 Basic Testing Concepts
• Reliability
• Validity
o Criterion validity
o Content validity
o Construct validity

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 Review
• Reliability =
consistency
• Validity =
measuring what
you intend to
measure

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 Ethical and legal
considerations in testing

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 Evidence-Based HR: Test
Validation Other Issues

• Individual rights and test security

• Privacy issues
• Using tests at work
• Computerized and online testing

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 Review
• Rights and security
• Privacy
• Tests at work
• Computerized,
online testing

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 Tests for employee
selection, and how you
would use them

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 Types of Tests
• Cognitive abilities
o Intelligence tests
o Specific cognitive abilities
• Motor & physical abilities
• Measuring personality
• Interest inventories
• Achievement tests

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 Review
• Cognitive • Interests
abilities • Achievement
o IQ • “Big 5”
o Specific mental • Predicting
abilities • Caveats
• Motor skills o Interpretation
• Personality o Legal issues
o Disputing value
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 Examples of some of the
ethical and legal
considerations in testing

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 Background Investigations
• Why perform checks?
• Effectiveness
• Legal dangers
o Defamation
o Privacy
• How to check

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 Background Investigations

• Applicants’ social postings

• Pre-employment information services
• The polygraph and honesty testing
• Graphology

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 Background Investigations
• “Human lie detectors”
• Physical exams
• Substance abuse
• Complying with immigration law
• Improving productivity through HRIS

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 Review
• Honesty testing
• Graphology
• “Human lie detectors”
• Physicals/drugs
• Immigration
• HRIS

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