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Jason Cook 

Week 2 Discussion

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Traditional methods for selecting an employee such as sifting through applications and résumés will seemingly always be the most common way that employers make hiring decisions. However, I think the most effective methods for selecting employees are personality profiling and group exercises. Today, we often hear about employees fitting into the specific culture of any given company. An applicant may meet all of the technical qualifications for an opening such as degree level, years of experience, etc. but may not have the type of personality or attitude that fits with the pre-established organizational culture. If I was in a position to hire, whether at Google or McDonald's, then personality profiling and group exercises would be the best way to determine whether or not prospective employees could efficiently acclimate to our culture.

Personality profiling allows the employer to get a closer look at how an applicant thinks, and behaves in a given situation. Though it may or may not be important that the applicant has experience in a certain field, or obtained a certain degree, what is most important is that the prospective employee has a personality that works well with the current staff. This is not to say that diversity is not important as I strongly agree that it is. However, if I have a company full of employees that are self-motivated, innovative, sociable- in the sense that they know how to (at the very least) effectively communicate with each other, then it would not make much sense to hire someone who is the complete opposite, no matter how academically qualified he or she is.

Group exercises can simply be a supplement to personality profiling. Profiling may give me an idea as to how an applicant may handle work-related situations. Yet, with group exercises I would be able to observe them in action via role-play exercises with other applicants or even current employees. Ultimately, I think interaction with current staff members would provide the best example as I would be able to measure the interaction with the culture that the prospects will essentially be involved with.

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Leslie Moses 

Week 2 Discussion

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Finding the right employee is a difficult task, just as well as finding the employer.  I think both parties would like to find the best fit for the both of them, which would ultimate benefit both parties.   In my opinion the most effective method in selecting an employee would be a pre-screen by phone. This would allow the candidate to tell me a little about themselves, and their previous jobs they have held. After the pre-screen this would allow me to determine if the candidate would move on to the next process, which I would send over a personality test.The personality test then would tell me about the person's personality and would some-what tell me how their people skills are. If they past the personality test I would invite the person in for an in person interview, the interview would just be a process to meet the person and ask further questions and to get a feel for the person. Ask further probing question to see how the person does under pressure . I feel in my opinion this is the best method for selecting a employee.

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