Practice Interview

“Hiring Process” is not an easy process. A wrong decision might be very heavy for company’s budget and repute both. Don’t save your resources while hiring a candidate or don’t over spend, as both extremes can be dangerous. Follow a simple set of principles and you will get better options for your company.

1. Choose any two media’s to propagate your vacancy. A newspaper must be the primary one. Craft a job description wisely keeping in mind all your concerns and requirements clearly.

2. A firm set of criteria must be followed to judge each resume. It all depends on nature and requirements of your project. You can make a list of following traits and give marks accordingly. At the end grand total will make your decision easy about each resume before calling any candidate for interview.

Following points must be considered

• Job Skills
• Previous work Experience
• Industry experience if any
• Decision making authority
• Education and obtained grades
• Presentation of resume itself i-e writing skills, grammar, spellings and logic flow etc.

3. References on resumes are with best possible words in the precise of a particular candidate. Do check out the given references thoroughly it will help you to gain more information about the candidate. Mostly candidates at their end thought no one is going to check what they wrote as a reference. But making a hiring decision is a serious job and following up with references makes your choices clear.

4. Keeping in mind all your previous workings and not essentials, craft interview questions logically. As interview process is actually to decide whether a candidate is going for next process of hiring or not. Re-read the resume prior to the interview and make notes of specified questions other than generals about each candidate.

5. After rapid interview session again short list or narrow down number of candidates. Call them on a private meeting, discuss your project and job requirements with them as a group discussion in a rather a casual way. Here, you can judge there convincing and leadership powers and how they can work along with a team.

Inviting anyone or everyone would be a difficult, time consuming and expensive way of hiring managers. As company’s most valuable asset is its capital so don’t waste it on hiring without structured planning. The above listed steps are easy to follow and specified in their objectives thus helping you to find the Right Person.