How to hire the best applicant for any position?

Steps to Hiring the Best Applicant

-           Contact HR. 

-           Gather all existing documentation about the position

-           The Applicant Pool

-           Collect applications.  

-           Screen applications

-           Send regret emails to applicants eliminated from consideration

-           Select interviewees

-           The Interview

-           Plan the interview process

-           Schedule interviews. 

-           Create interview questions

-           Conduct interviews. 

-           The Selection

-           Select the most qualified applicant

-           Offer the job

-           Contact applicants not selected within two weeks of your decision

The following steps are vey useful and will help you to avoid false negative and false positive errors,

1- Do Job analysis:

       i-Gather data about the job you are hiring for, you can use different technique: a- interviews, questionnaire, personal observation, log record.

       ii-Job Description and Job Specification: The date you collected will help to prepare good job description and job specification. Because Well written job descriptions and person specifications assist in attracting the right candidates for the job.

2-Define the timeframe and how people will apply and be assessed against the selection criteria 

3-Advertise the vacancy 

4-Do initial screening and develop shortlist 

5- Schedule the interview 

6-Prepare the interview:  

-Interview questions and evaluation tools

-Any other information that candidate need to know

7- Conduct Interview : Some organization do test and assessment before interview and some after interview.

8-Select the right candidate 

9- Do reference checks

10-initiating the offer

11- finalizing the offer

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