The Selection Process and the 4/5th Rule
This refers to the steps involved in choosing people who have the right qualifications to fill a current or future job opening.
What is the Selection Process
Knowledge, abilities, skills and other personal characteristics need to preform a job successfully.
questions are changed to match the specific applicant; for example, questions about the candidate’s background in relation to their résumé might be used
What is an Unstructured interview
he major categories of tests include the following. please name one
According to the US Department of Labor and Statistics estimates the combined direct and indirect cost of hiring someone new can reach upwards of?
What is 40,000$
By setting criteria ahead of time, the hiring team has a clear picture of what?
the qualifications needed for a specific position
a set of standardized questions based on the job analysis, not on individual candidates’ résumés
What is a structured interview
This test measure reasoning skills, math skills, and verbal skills
Cognitive ability test.
The selection process consists of five distinct aspects. What are they?
1. Criteria development
2.Application and resume review
3. Interviewing
4. Test administration
5.Making the offer
The validity refers to?
How useful the tool is to measure a person’s attributes for a specific job
This type of interview normally takes place in the office. It consists of the interviewer and the candidate, and a series of questions are asked and answered.
What is a traditional interview
What is a common example of a cognitive ability test?
(Hint we all have taken this test)
What is the SAT
Why is the 4/5ths rule used?
to measure if employment test are disparate or unfair to certain protected groups.
What are some tools used to validity resumes?
Name at least one
used when there is no specific job opening, but the candidate is exploring possibilities in a given career field. The advantage to conducting these types of interviews is the ability to find great people ahead of a job opening.
What is an information interview.
The Big Five personality test looks at
please name one
what is extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness
How does the 4/5ths rule work?
please give an example.
Assume your organization requires a cognitive test for employment. You set a test score of 70 as the required pass rate for the candidate to be considered for an interview. Based on our numbers, if 50 percent of men passed this test with a score of 70, then four-fifths or 40 percent of women should also be able to pass the test.
What is the difference between and internal and an external candidate?i
internal candidates are employees at the company already while external are brought into the company to fill the position.
The candidate is asked questions about what he or she actually did in a variety of given situations. The assumption in this type of interview is that someone’s past experience or actions are an indicator of future behavior.
What is a behavior description interview
what is the most common selection method?
clinical selection approach