Recruit and Hire the Best: Recruit and Hire: Week Five - Selection Time

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Recruit and Hire the Best Recruit and Hire: Week Five - Selection Time From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources The fifth week of the course is an opportunity to narrow the number of your candidates even further as you perform reference checks. These checks will tell you, and usually confirm, if your hiring instincts are good, the most viable candidate for your organization. Included in today's lesson is a recommended format you can use for performing reference checks. I have also included a sample job offer letter that covers most positions you may want to fill. Information about setting a motivating salary and currently available benefits choices round out this final session. Syllabus Week Five Objectives - Selection Time Read the Candidate Interview Evaluation forms, filled out by your interviewers, and meet to discuss the final choices. You may agree on a preferred candidate or debate and discuss each candidate to arrive at a conclusion. Listen carefully for differences of opinion; you need to heed even one negative vote since all participants will have to work together effectively with the selected individual. Sometimes, in this discussion, you narrow your choices to two or three people and depend on the reference checks to help with your decision. Reference checks are performed for your preferred candidates. I also check educational credentials and call former employers, even when not listed as a reference. I have found that stellar references do not guarantee an outstanding employee, but they certainly eliminate some candidates. Additionally, this is the time period when I recommend you watch for any fabrication of credentials. While you can fire, at will, for false statements on an employment application (yours does warn applicants about this?), it is better to know before you invest training and staff time in a person with low integrity. This is the final lesson in the Recruit and Hire the Best E-course. Suggestions for improvement, needed additions to the course content and general feedback are a welcome source of ideas, inspiration and excitement for me. So, do please give me feedback. Key Objectives How to Recruit and Hire the Best: A Checklist for Success The final steps in your recruiting campaign bring you to the finish line, hopefully, with the candidate of your dreams poised to accept your offer. Check out the second half of the Recruiting Checklist for the final steps in the Recruit and Hire the Best process. Supporting Content Salary Trends for Forward Thinking Organizations How to research salary, salary calculators, salary surveys, salary comparisons, basically, all things salary, online, is one of the most frequent requests for information received by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). This makes sense when you consider the importance of salary to attract talented people, retain key employees, and maintain an excited, motivated workforce. Tips for Determining a Motivating Salary Information online makes researching salary ranges easier than setting salaries has ever been in the past - but, also trickier. The role of salary in helping you create a motivated, contributing work force is inestimable. These tips will help you address pay and salary issues in a way that contributes to employee motivation in your organization. Are You Getting the Best Benefit From Your Benefits? Is your benefits package giving you the payback you deserve in increased employee appreciation and satisfaction? Chances are, it's not. Employees only understand and appreciate part of the employer's cost of the benefits they receive. Learn more. Forms and Tools Reference Checking Format Checking job or employment references is time-consuming and frequently unsatisfactory, as many employers, despite recent legislation, refuse to offer more than dates of employment, salary history and job title. Here is the format I use to check references. Take a look; it provides a format for reference checking that you'll find helpful. Candidate Offer Letter Looking for a sample job offer letter? Your candidates appreciate the job offer terms spelled out in detail. Use this job offer letter as a base for developing your own employment offer. Discuss and Ask Questions in the Forum Forum Discussion Want to ask questions or exchange information? This Forum discussion folder is for members of the class. Please post your questions or ideas here for the entire group to respond and exchange information. This email is written by: Susan M. Heathfield Human Resources Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. 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