mardi 8 mai 2012

Blog 12 : Selection

Selection is the process whereby not only does the employer choose between two or more interested applicants, but applicants also select, deciding how much further they wish to pursue their original enquiry. Then end of the recruitment and selection process is a legally binding an agreement. (Torrington et al., 2011).

The first process of selection is looking through appliers's CVs and this then allows the employer to select the ideal people that they want to discard people which don't suit the education or experience whiliust keeping the best fitted,however, education doesn't always show the true personality of the individual, and could leave less educated people with a lower level of English grammar being discarded when theey may be very good at a more hand on skill. (J.Mullins,2007)

If the candidate does well they will move on to the next selecion method which is the group exercise. Group exercise is when a number of candidates are brought together and seen simultaneously by the selecor. This method as it can be similar to a real life situation. This means that candidates strenghts and weaknesses reflect even more during this assessment as they could evaluated on how they could react to a real life situation. However, this depends on the type of situation and the groups can at time not have someone to take the leading role. Hence the benefit of group exercises is that the candidate can choose their own role that could reflect their strenghts at a greater level. However, there is a drawback about this method is that the given task may not display the candidate's strenghts. This is because people react to certain situations in different ways and certain situation may not bring out the someone's best skills.

Interviews are usually used after other processes have taken place, and are often the last process within the recruitment chain before a decision is made. These is where people can experience what someone is like as a person, and see how they deal with interacting with people they don't know under a stressful situation. This in my opinion is the most efficient way of dealing with the selection process.

I have been involved in a number of educational and job selection processes. For which I think has made me really think about myself was the application to University. Indeed, the application for university I had to go through different interviews with my teachers in 6th form as I was the only one who wanted to go to University in England, so every teachers asked me why I wanted to change of course so suddenly whereas all my course mates stayed in France to common courses but I felt that I had to do something else, and my teacher did everything she could to test me , so she made me pass an interview and asking why I would go there instead of carry on a course in France , what was really motivating me. Furthermore, I convinced my teacher by explaining my real motivations about leaving for University such as discover other cultures , being more open-minded about meeting new people. Therefore, she asks me why would I be taken in University as there is already many english who will be placed in front of you in the applying list . I felt like I was going through an interview as she told me that she tried to make it as much as she could, which led to feeling that experience made me grow up and realise my real motivations about my future.

The application for university I feel could be done in a very different way, and the selection of who is  accepted onto a course could be looked at in a better way. There are many people who do not have the commitment or the amibtion to complete a degree course, and apply as to just use up time. I feel that if the selection of university becomes harder, for instance an interview or personality test there would be a decrease in absenteeism creating a higher efficiently within the lecture room and creating a higher standard of person for people getting degrees.



Overall to conclude, I think the selection part of the recruitment process is clearly a complex one , indeed, this is because the selection methods for instance group exercises can help candidates be more familiar with their working environment. Also, by using and developping the correct stages of selection, the best person for the role can be selected, however, all processes have positives and negatives and so for the selector to see and analyse many different aspects of the skill and character of the individual.





References :

J.Mullins, L.(2007) Management and Organisational Behaviour. 9th ed. Harlow: Pitman inprint.
Torrington, D.,Hall, L., Taylor, S. and Atkinson, C. (2011) Human Resource Management. 8th ed. Harlow: Pearsons Educations Limited

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