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How to Determine if a Candidate’s Skills Meet Your Job Requirements - SkillsDB

Written by Steve Lieberman | Dec 3, 2014 7:00:00 AM
 

Bad hires cost businesses a great deal of income in training time, reduced effectiveness, and aggravation suffered by colleagues that have to bear the responsibilities for a marginal employee. In a lot of companies, supervisors perform staff interviews by presenting their go to questions to candidates. For example, what can you offer us that someone else cannot? Or even trying to get a feel on how exactly a prospect can fit in. These strategies normally lead to uninspiring and harmful outcomes.

Skills management techniques will maximize staff retention levels and diminish preliminary training time. Position profiles listing the expertise necessary for each and every position is a great starting place for planning prospect selection procedures. Utilizing skills-based job interview questions is the solution. For example, tell me about how you have used your programming skills to solve an urgent problem?

These types of questions can then be created into job interview guidelines for each and every job. Supervisors are subsequently tutored to utilize the guides in the course of job interviews to ascertain the way the candidate have used these vital skills already.

 

Simple yes, though amazing how many managers still only ask their go to questions and never find out if a candidate has the skills to do the job they are getting hired for. Creating skills based job profiles and interviewing candidates from those profiles will create a significantly better hiring process for you.