Do you consider finding ideal employee to be utopia? Your experience shows that only after you hire the applicant it is possible to find out whether he said the truth during the interview and has the necessary skills for the job.
Yes, it might happen. Without deep examination unsuitable candidate can be hired. The insuperable obstacles can occure because of personal adjustment, attitute to work and the way he deals with problems, lack of technical thinking, cooperation with collegues who were not present during the job interview.
To evaluate the candidate precisely means not only to read his CV and speak to him, but also to search among lot of people and find out who of them is the most suitable according to requirements for the certain job and company’s culture. It is necessary to create questions portfolio for interview which will be able to reveal needed features. Testing can be done by the strucured interviews with the tasks and model situation, by testing prerequisite for the job by using psychological and other kind of tests.
Now it is clear that examinating the applicants for the certain possition is work which takes time and time means money, and it is logical that workers have to economise their time effectively. Sometimes it is mixed up with doing things as quickly as possible. The consequences of quickly completed task can show up later. For instance new emloyee won’t be able to communicate with different type of personalities even though during the interview it was pleasant to comunicate with him. He won’t have necessary technical skills even though he claimed he is really good at it. He won’t be able to take in consideration issue of company’s activities, although he was able to communicate about different topics and change them fluently during the interview and so It looked like he is able to do it. So it is really important to deside whether the person who should choose the collegue has enough time, needed knowledge, and tools. Whether it is not good idea to let him or her do different work which will be more beneficial for the company and so it will be more useful to take an advantage of professional services of personnel agency.
Tomáš Ergens