HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Absenteeism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Selecion the process of choosing individuals to ill job openings the strategic importance of selecion: quality of human resources determines organizaional performance inappropriate selecion decisions are costly signiicant legal implicaions. Avoiding legal problems use selecion criteria based on the job assess applicant"s ability to meet expectaions scruinize applicant-provided informaion obtain authorizaion for reference checking save all records and informaion reject applicants who make false statements. Preparaions: develop selecion criteria specify musts and wants and weight the wants develop an evaluaion form develop interview quesions (for all candidates) develop candidate-speciic quesions. Consideraions: do not ask quesions that would violate human rights legislaion treat all candidates in the same manner do not cut short an interview based on preconceived noions about the gender or race of the. Ideal candidate focus on the job descripion and job speciicaion when gathering informaion from applicants.