When looking for an employee for a vacant position, each personnel officer tries to take into account all the features of the work that the applicant will have to perform. In some cases, for example, in highly specialized activities, special work experience is required, without which even the highest quality theoretical education does not matter. And no matter how tempting potential employees may describe their experience, you should check the availability of the necessary experience and there are several ways for this.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, carefully study the applicant's resume. Make sure that their education and work experience is appropriate for your requirements. Read the description of the activities that he had to carry out in the previous places of work.
Call the previous direct supervisor of the applicant and ask for a recommendation in terms of experience, if one was not attached by the candidate to the resume. This will give you much more accurate information about a potential employee.
Step 2
If the previous stage of collecting information about the applicant confirmed his compliance with your professional expectations, then invite him for an interview in order to clarify the unclear points with the help of specific questions. Here it will be possible to invite a specialist to show his knowledge and prove the validity of his proposal.
Step 3
During the interview, ask the candidate for the position to complete a test task, which should be prepared in such a way as to enable him to demonstrate as much as possible his extensive knowledge in highly specialized issues. The quality of the test proposed for execution is very important here, so ask a specialist in this field to draw it up. It can also be a future immediate supervisor, for whom it is also very important to find the right employee. In addition, the completed test work can be transferred to him for evaluation.
Step 4
And yet, the last point in identifying the experience you need is to offer the applicant a job with a trial period. In this case, you will have the opportunity to find out in practice the professional skills of the candidate, offering clear criteria for determining his professional suitability. To do this, you should prepare an appropriate job description and conclude an employment contract within the proposed conditions.
