ADM 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Essential Selection, Graduate Management Admission Test, Credit History

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2337
• Professor: Catherine Elliott

Document Summary

The process of choosing among qualified individuals who have been recruited to fill existing or projected job openings. Important because: quality of human resources determines organizational performance, high cost of inappropriate selection decisions, potential legal implications. Candidates not meeting essential selection criteria are eliminated first. Candidates who most closely match the job specifications are given further consideration. Use of technology increasingly popular to assist with the initial screening process. 2: predicting job performance weighted application blank (wab) Responses weighted based on statistical relation to job performance. Biographical data predicative of job success is scored. Guidelines for employment interviewers interviewer training: practice makes perfect beware of perceptual biases. All jurisdictions forbid direct questions about race, sex, age, colour, religion, and national origin. 90% of employers previous employment history, academic qualifications, criminal record and credit ranking. The reason for conducting a consumer credit report must be job-related; need permission from applicant and they have the right to reviews it.