Recruitment Strategy - Advertisement, Job Interview
Recruitment Strategy - Advertisement, Job Interview
Recruitment Strategy - Advertisement, Job Interview
CT024-3-1
Interview
Learning Outcomes
Interview process
Use
If you have mastered this topic, you should be able to use the following terms
correctly in your assignments and exams:
Job Advertisement
Things to avoid
Job advertisement
Checklist
Job title
Checklist Cont
Application instructions
Contact details
Job advertisement
Look at other job adverts to get ideas for how to lay them out
Innovate Corp.
Job description:
You will join an experienced team and build e-business solutions for
key customers such as Toys 'R' Us, Reuters and Unilever. You will be
challenged to develop systems that handle a large number of users,
complex transactions and extensive integration, while hitting high
standards of usability, reliability and manageability.
Innovate Corp is a Microsoft Partner and our solutions are built using their
very latest technologies. Development work is on the .NET platform in C#.
Person requirements:
Ideally you will have some experience of .NET and ASP.NET. You might also
have some object oriented knowledge and a familiarity with software design
patterns. More important than any of this is a keen desire to be a great software
developer.
We have a technical career development path leading to MCSD.NET certification.
Degree requirements:
Asking the rights questions in the interview is good for getting the right
kind of information.
Candidates are quite sophisticated in their interview techniques, are well aware
when interviewers lack skills. A waste if the candidate leaves the interview with a
low perception of the interviewer and organisation.
You and your interviewers have to be very clear about what you hope to
get from the interview, how the candidates are to be assessed
Keep interviewer-response form will to assist with the decision making
Reserve list
You can expect to have a dropout rate from the list of your
applicants/interviewees, so it is wise to keep some of other candidates in
the background .
Avoid questions that can be answered with a "yes" or "no" or that prompt
obvious responses, such as "Are you self motivated?"
Ask questions that force the candidate to go into detail (open ended
question/probing question/non-question questions)
Does she seem alert and interested or does she slouch and yawn?
Are his clothes wrinkled and stained, or clean and neat? A person
who can't make an effort for the interview certainly won't make one
on the job if hired.
Leave time at the end for the applicant to ask. This is the time when
applicants can really show they have done their homework and researched
your company
End the interview by letting the candidate know what to expect next
How much longer will you be interviewing? When can they expect to
hear from you?
Interview stages
E.g.
Communication skills
1. Make a list of the key characteristics and experience required for the role.
2. Think back over your career for specific examples of when you have
demonstrated these.
10. What is the first thing you would change, if you were to start work here?
2 CHOICES:
Employ the "tough question strategy" and give your best answer
So what is the strategy? How do you answer tough interview questions?
Answer
Express your enthusiasm for the job and pride in your qualifications. Explain what
makes you interested in this position
ILLEGAL QUESTIONS
As a general rule (UK and North America), questions concerning marital status,
sexual preferences, ethnic origin, health status or family plans are not allowed
For example:
With all due respect, it is important to me to keep my work and personal life
separate. My marital status shouldnt be relevant to my career here at company
XYZ."
"I'm easily bored, a bit sloppy and you wouldn't like to meet me on a
morning before I've had a coffee - I'm an ogre!"
What would your manager miss about you? And what won't they miss?
What do you find most difficult / dislike the most about work?
3 weaknesses
2. Keep a copy for yourself and hand in one copy to your lecturer
What are the 3 things you want to know about the job, the team, the
company? What does your interviewer like most about working there?
What would they change?