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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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Selection Process 5 Steps

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  1. Primary Applicant Screening
  2. Selection Testing
  3. Selection Interview
  4. Background Investigation/reference check
  5. Supervisory Interview and realistic job preview
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Selection

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Choosing individuals to fill job openings

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3
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Recruitment

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searching out job applicants

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Strategic Importance of Selection 3

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Quality of HR, Ethical and appropriate selection, Legal Implications

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5
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Selection Ratio

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of applicants hired / total # of applicants

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6
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Small Selection Ratio Indications (3) (1:4)

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low # of applicants, low quality recruits, redo process

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Large Indications (3) (1:400)

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Vague job description, more resources for selection, automate process

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Multiple Hurdle Selection Strategy

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Selection involving series of successive steps/hurdles (phasing)

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2 Criteria for selection

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Determining Individual most qualified for the job
1. Must/Need 2. Want

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Must

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essential requirements for job, measurable standard of acceptability, screened initially on paper

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Want

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Desirable quality but not crucial, cannot be screened on paper etc verbal, communication, passion

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Preliminary Applicant Screening

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  • initial screening performed by HR by reviewing resumes and applications, candidates removed that don’t meet selection and rest move on to interview
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Selection Testing
- what is it
- what type of tests
-the tests are designed to be(2)

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Efficient method to screen large number of applicants
pre-made tests or develop in-house tests
reliable and valid

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Reliability and it is the degree to (3)

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yield comparable data over time
degree to dependability, consistency, stability

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Validity and degree

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predictor measures what it is intended to measure (accuracy)

separate validation studies for different subgroups

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3 types of validity

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criterion, content, construct

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17
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Types of Screening Selection Tests (9)

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Cognitive Abilities
Physical Abilities
Personality
Interests
Achievement Tests
Management Assessment Centres
Situational Testing
Micro-Assessment, Physical Examination, Drug Testing, Polygraphs, Work Sampling

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Cognitive Abilities (2) and how used in job selection

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Intelligence: Predictor of Job Performance at chosen occupation
Emotional: Person’s ability to monitor emotions, knowledge and guide thoughts and actions.

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Personality 2 tests - validity and reliability

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Myers Briggs - lacks validity and reliability
Big 5 Personality - is valid and reliable

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Interests Test for Job

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Compare candidates interests with those of people already in various occupations

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Achievement tests for jobs

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knowledge (know about) and proficiency (know how)

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Management Assessment Centres

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Comprehensive procedures to assess management of potential groups of candidates

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Management Assessment combine and are not

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combine realistic experience, objective testings, presentations and are not a real place you go to

24
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Selection Interview Components (3)

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Degree of Structure
Content
Administering Interview

25
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Degree of Structure (3)

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Unstructured
Structured
Mixed/semi-structured

26
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Unstructured Interview (3)

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Questions asked as they come to mind
Flexible
low reliability and validity

27
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Structured Interview (3)

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Question are prepped or sent out
high reliability and validity
no flexibility, cannot pursue points of interest

28
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Content Components (2)

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Situational
Behavioural

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Situational Content and Premise

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individuals ability to project future behaviour in each situation
Premise: intentions predict behaviour

30
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Behavioural Content and Premise

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asking interviewees how they behaved in the past to various situations
Premise: future performance is best predicted by past performance in similar situations

31
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Administering Interview 4 ways

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one-on-one, sequentially or all at once (multiple interviewers, Face-to-face, technology

32
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Sequential

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applicant interviewed by several persons in sequence

33
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Sequential Interview Unstructured
Sequential Interview Structured

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Unstructured: interviewer provides their own input
Structured: standard evaluation form

34
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Panel Interview and etc

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Simultaneously interviewed by group of interviewers, example Mass Interview

35
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Phone benefits

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no appearance bias, spontaneous call

36
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Virtual Interview 2 types

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Synchronistic or Asynchronistic

37
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Virtual Benefits (3)

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Technology, reduced costs, biased reduced through training and administration

38
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Common Interview Mistake: Poor Planning

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Questions not written in advance, no structure or admin

39
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Common Interview Mistake: Leading

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Guiding Candidate directly or indirectly to right answer

40
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Common Interview Mistake: Too Much or Too Little Talk

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Time is 70/30, 70% for applicant and 30% for interviewer

41
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Common Interview Mistake: Poor Knowledge of Job

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Interviewers without accurate picture will rely on incorrect standards

42
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Common Interview Mistake: Gut Feeling

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Interviewer prefers Gut feeling over quality and qualifications

43
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Common Interview Mistake: Influence of Non-Verbal Behaviour

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eye contact, head moving, smiling

44
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Common Interview Mistake: Snap Judgements

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Decisions based on first impressions

45
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Common Interview Mistake: Negative Emphases

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more weight given to unfavourable characteristics

46
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Common Interview Mistake: Halo Effect

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Subsequent ratings distorted by first impression

47
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Common Interview Mistake: Contrast/Rank Error

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Distortion due to rating of prior candidate

48
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Common Interview Mistake: Similar-to-me

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Distortion due to similarity in demographics, personality, attitudinal

49
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Common Interview Mistake: Stereotyping

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being influenced by assumptions about an individual based on specific group

50
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Step 4: Background Investigation and Reference Check (2)

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Verify Accuracy of information provided
Research to find applicant lies that lead to elimination

51
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Verify Accuracy of information provided (4)

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criminal record check
credit check
past employment and education check
performance related references from past supervisors

52
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Research or Applicant lies that lead to elimination

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overstating qualifications
attempting to hide negative information
Being Deliberately evasive or untruthful

53
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Step 5: Supervisory interview and realistic job preview (2)

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Supervisory interview
Realistic Job Preview

54
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Supervisory interview

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assess job, knowledge/skills, answer job questions, comfortable with new hire, assesses team fit

55
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Realistic Job Preview

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provided applicants with realistic information, positive and negative

56
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Step 6: Hiring Decision and Candidate Notification
- what are the 6 steps of step 6

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  • Compile info from techniques
  • evaluate info about each candidate
  • supervisor make hiring decision
  • offer specifies terms and conditions of employment
  • candidates have time to think and accept
  • notify candidate not selected

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