Employee Selection Exercise

[A] Choose the selection methods: Identify which selection method (e.g., rsum, interview, test, role-play exercise, reference check or personality inventory) you would recommend for each of the six factors listed above. You can use the same selection method more than once if you believe it is appropriate for more than one factor.

Below is an example of how you might justify using an application form as an appropriate selection method for education.

1. Education selection method: Application form Justification: A question on the application form can ask applicants to describe their education. This selection method makes it easy and inexpensive to obtain this information.

2. Work experience

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Justification:

3. Math skills

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4. Verification knowledge

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5. Interpersonal skills

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6. Work motivation

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[B] Operationalize your assessments: Now that you have identified selection methods for the six factors, you must decide how to score each of these assessments. Based on your responses in part A (Choose the selection methods), think about how each factor may be scored and develop a point system for that factor. A common approach to performing this task is to have some type of numerical rating system that may include. one or two minimum requirements.

Your task is to develop a rubric (point system) to score applicants for each of the six factors. In developing your rubric, review the job description information. The educationfactor is provided for you below. Remember that tellers need to have a high school diploma, according to the job specification. Applicants who do not meet this requirement are rejected. College degrees are preferred and receive more points in the example below.

1. Education assessed via application form.

My assessment:

Points Highest Level of Education

10 Bachelors level or higher

6 Associates degree

3 High school diploma

Reject Less than high school diploma

2. Work experience assessed via

My assessment:

3. Math skills assessed via

My assessment:

4. Verification knowledge assessed via

My assessment:

5. Interpersonal skills assessed via

My assessment:

6. Work motivation assessed via

My assessment:

[C] Apply your assessment systems: Listed below are applicants for the teller position. Based on your answers in part B (Operationalize your assessments), score each of the applicants.

	MARIA	LORI	STEVE	JENNA
EDUCATION	Associate degree	HS Diploma	GED	Bachelors Degree
WORK EXPERIENCE	4 years as a cashier	1 year as a teller	5 years as a salesclerk at a national retail clothing store chain	Completed a semester internship at a bank.
MATH SKILLS	Very Strong	Marginal	Satisfactory	Good
VERIFICATION KNOWLEDGE	Marginal	Strong	Satisfactory	Strong
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS	Very Strong	Good	Good	Good
WORK MOTIVATION	Good	Good	Marginal	Strong

(a) Which applicants scored best based on the scores you entered into the table?

(b) What difficulties did you have applying your scoring system?

(c) Based on this applicant data, would you make any changes to your rubrics? If yes, please describe.