The document discusses the process of employee selection. It begins by defining selection as picking qualified individuals to fill organizational jobs through sequential steps. It then outlines basic selection criteria like education, experience, physical/personality characteristics. The selection process is described involving initial screening, applications, interviews, tests and making offers or rejecting applicants. Common selection methods are then defined as testing, gathering information, interviewing, and using a comprehensive multi-step approach. Specific testing and interview types are also detailed.

1. BY: PRINCE, VIKAS, TARUN AND DEEPANSH

2. Selection is the process
of picking individuals
who have relevant
qualifications to fill jobs
in an organization. It
consists of sequential
steps which can be vary
from job to job.

3. BASIC SELECTION
CRITERIA
BASIC
SELECTION
CRITERIA
Formal Education
Experience and Past
Performance
Physical Characteristics
Personality Characteristics

4. SELECTION PROCESS
Initial screening
Application blank
Medical/physical examination if
required (conditional job offer
Comprehensive interview
Employment test
Permanent job offer
Reject Applicant
Background Examination
if required
Conditional job
offer
Passed
Passed
Passed
Passed
Passed
Able to perform
essential elements
of job
Fail to meet minimum
qualification
Failed to complete job
application or failed job
specification
Failed Test
Failed to impress
interviewer and / meet
job expectations
Problem
encountered
Unfit to do essential
elements of job

5. SELECTION METHODS
1. Testing Method
2. Gathering Information
3. Interviewing
4. Comprehensive
The four most Common Methods used are:

6. SELECTION METHODS Cont . . .
Tests measure knowledge, skill,
and ability, as well as other
characteristics, such as personality
traits.
1. TESTING
TESTING TYPES
Cognitive
Ability Test
Integrity
Test
Personality
Test
Drug Test
Physical
Ability Test
Work
Sample
Testing

7. 2. INFORMATION GATHERING
 Generally ask for information such as
address and phone number, education, work
experience, and special training.
 At the professional-level, similar information
is generally presented in résumés.
Application
Forms and
Résumés
 Historical events that have shaped a
person’s behavior and identity.
Biographical
Data
 Involves contacting an applicant’s previous
employers, teachers, or friends to learn more
about the applicant Issues with reference
checking
Reference
Checking

8. 3. INTERVIEWS:
 The interview is the most frequently used
selection method.
 Interviewing occurs when applicants
respond to questions posed by a manager
or some other organizational
representative (interviewer).
 Typical areas in which questions are
posed include education, experience,
knowledge of job procedures, mental
ability, personality, communication
ability, social skills.

9. TYPES OF INTERVIEWS
SITUATIONAL
INTERVIEW
• In which the
interviewer asks
questions about
what the applicant
would do in a
hypothetical
situation
BEHAVIORAL
INTERVIEW
• In which the
questions focus
on the
applicant’s
behavior in past
situations.
Uses a list of predetermined
questions. All applicants are
asked the same set questions.
There are two types of
structured interviews.
1. Structured
Interviews
Interviews-open ended
questions are used such as “Tell
me about yourself”
2. Unstructured
Interviews
• This allows the interviewer
to probe and pose different
sets of questions to different
applicants.

10. 4: COMPREHENSIVE
In this method candidates have to pass through a series of
steps to get selected. This method is mostly and widely
used .

11. The company uses a competency based
interviewing technique that looks at the
candidates abilities in terms of
strategizing, lateral thinking, problem
solving, managing the environment