Selecting the Best Applicant: Replaced


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
This content is replaced by the course "Choosing the Best Applicant", Course ID: hr_03_a03_bs_enus Making decisions is always difficult, and that applies particularly to choosing a new employee. This course will show you the most effective methods for evaluating and choosing the best applicants. It will show you how to analyze the information from the interview--by working in a focused framework--and how to compare candidates. You will examine and avoid the most common problems with decision making, and confirm and ratify your decision with other people who know the candidate. Put that all together, and you will have the best possible recipe for choosing the best applicants.

Target Audience
Managers, team leaders, and human resource professionals responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Making the Best Decision

  • recognize the value of analyzing information about applicants.
  • recognize examples of the two types of model answers.
  • evaluate candidates in a given scenario.
  • identify the most common problems with rating systems.
  • Avoiding Making Poor Decisions

  • recognize the benefits of good decision making.
  • match the causes of poor decision making with examples.
  • match the three ways of improving decision making with examples.
  • Checking Your Decisions

  • recognize the benefits of checking decisions.
  • match four factors of team interview organization with examples.
  • use appropriate reference-checking techniques in a given situation.
  • identify the main records used in background information checking.
  • Course Number:
    HR0233