Find Golden Employees With Screening
The gold rush of 1849 brought an estimated 300
,000 people to California in search of wealth and prosperity. Prospectors and their families spent hours sifting through soil in hopes of finding the precious metal. Sifting soil is a tedious process that begins with piles of dirt, and ends in piles of gold. Today's talent search is comparable to the prospector's mission. Businesses must sift through the available talent to find their future superstars.
Just as prospectors used pans to separate the dirt from the gold, businesses must find a way to separate the standout applicants from those less qualified. Those in charge of hiring must screen and interview candidates in order to find the best person for the job. Screening candidates is a broad term that encompasses a variety of methods. Background checks and employee assessments are the most popular forms of screening during the hiring process.
Background checks come in all shapes and sizes, and can be customized to your company's needs. Although a person's history may not reflect their future, it does paint a picture of what the individual values. A person's criminal, financial, and educational background can determine how the person will adapt to their new position, and how they will fit into the work culture. It is important to consider how a person will contribute to the work culture, and how their actions will affect their co-workers.
Background checks should not be regarded as intrusive, but rather as a safety net when choosing a new employee. These reports can help employers avoid uncomfortable situations by hiring the candidate whose background best reflects what they are seeking in an employee.
Assessments are another form of screening that can eliminate candidates not suited for the available position. Each individual possesses a set of natural behaviors that affect how and what they value. Skills are learned assets that affect a person's natural behaviors.
For example, if a person is naturally conversational, they may have to learn the skill of restraining their sociability in order to be productive. Assessments can quantify this information, so that employers are more knowledgeable about what each candidate can bring to the company.
Pre-hire assessments measure an individual's basic work-related values. They are used early in the candidate selection process and provide insight into an applicant's work ethic, reliability, integrity, propensity for substance abuse and attitudes toward theft. These are important values that are rarely reflected accurately in resumes. Despite an applicant's long list of internships or previous employers, they may have issues that directly affect their productivity.
Resumes do not have a concrete way of letting employers know enough about an individual to make an educated hiring decision. Assessments can be used to compliment a resume and educate those in charge of hiring so that they might make the best decision possible.
Interviewing is also an important step when selecting job candidates. When used in conjunction with assessments, interviewing becomes a more in-depth process that can reveal a person's true outlook and work behaviors. Assessments will provide interview questions based upon a person's results. These questions can illicit honest responses to questions that may have been skipped had an assessment not been given. The questions are unique to each participant's results. The questions are then formulated to provide answers employers need to know before hiring.
California's gold rush, just like today's job search, involved a large amount of people, all searching for the same thing. With ten percent of the population currently unemployed, businesses interested in hiring need to create a hiring process that is conducive to a massive amount of applicants.
Screening and interviewing work together to efficiently find golden employees hidden amongst those less qualified. Without these processes, those hiring are likely to become overwhelmed and consequentially make poor hiring choices. Assessments can ensure that businesses make golden choices that benefit the entire company and pave the way for a bright future.
by: Jim Sirbasku
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