The slides will give you a general overview of recruiting and selecting new employees for your organizations.

1. Making the
Million-Pound
Decision
Recruitment and Selection

2. Today’s Discussion
Determining your needs
Recruiting new employees
Interviewing do’s and don’ts
Evaluating your candidates
Making the big decision

3. How many people
would apply?
Hundreds people would send their
CVs for this position

4. As you begin to
review
‘Why did this guy apply? He doesn’t have half
the required experience!’
‘What? She’s never even done this kind of work
before.’
‘Is this man joking? He must have responded to
the wrong advertisement!’

5. Finding and hiring the best candidates
for a job has never been easy
Your challenge is to work out how to pluck the best candidates out of the
sea strewn with the wreckage of corporate cast-offs.

6. Good employees are hard to find
If you’ve had the recent privilege of advertising for a job opening, you know
that good employees aren’t easy to come by

7. When you locate your candidates,
your task is to narrow your selection down to one person
and to ensure that recruitment leads to his successful entry into the
organization.

8. New Employees Qualities that Employers Expect
Hardworking Good attitude Experienced Initiative
Team player Smart Responsible Stable

9. You can’t have a great organisation
without great people
Hiring the right people is one of the most important tasks that
managers face.

10. You can’t have a great organisation
without great people
Hiring the right people is one of the most important tasks that
managers face.

11. Defining the job and the person
Get the desired qualities and characteristics into a priority order.
Review the current job description closely and make changes where necessary.
Describe the minimum necessary qualifications and experience.
Describe all the tasks, responsibilities and characteristics of the position.
Draft a job description and person specification.
Set the standards you’re going to use to measure your candidates

12. People are the
heart of every
business
The better the people running your
business, the better your business.

13. Finding good people
Spend a few extra hours up front to find the best candidates.
Find the best candidates in everywhere.
Evaluate all candidates.
Involve other employees in the recruitment and selection
process.

14. Finding good people - Alternative
Taking a close look within
Personal referrals
Temporary agencies
Professional associations
Employment agencies
The Internet
Recruitment advertising

15. When you have
found the
candidate(s)
It is the time to arrange an
interview

16. Being the Greatest Interviewer in the World
•Why are you here?
•What can you do for us?
•What kind of person are you?
•Can we afford you?
Asking the right questions

17. Interview Do’s & Don’ts
• Interview Do’s
• Review the applications of each
interviewee the morning before
interviews start.
• Become completely familiar with the
job description.
• Draft your questions before the
interview.
• Select a comfortable environment for
both of you.
• Avoid playing power games during
the course of the interview.
• Take lots of notes.
• Interview Don’ts
• Applicant’s ethnicity or skin colour
• Applicant’s national origin
• Applicant’s gender
• Applicant’s sexual orientation
• Applicant’s marital status
• Applicant’s religion (or lack of)
• Applicant’s height and weight
• Applicant’s debts
• Applicant’s disability
• Applicant’s age

18. Evaluating Candidates
Checking
references
Reviewing
notes
Conduct
further
interview(s)

19. Making a Million-
Pound Decision
• Be Objective
• Trust your instinct
• Adjust compensation

20. Mohammad Shihab
E-mail shihab@president.ac.id
Blog http://shihab.my.id