In past Silkin Management Group blogs, we’ve discussed the importance of hiring the right employee for the position you have available. Quite often we find with clients new to Silkin Management Group that, due to their poor past hiring procedures, they have non-productive and/or inefficient staff. This comes from a lack of knowledge of how to properly screen applicants and hiring based upon a “gut feeling” or a single interview or a variety of other factors.
Silkin Management Group consultants teach their clients very specific hiring techniques including how to screen a large group of applicants, how to properly conduct a hiring interview including the right types of questions to ask, how to do background checks, what types of questions to have on applications, etc. Many of these techniques also have legal ramifications, and any employer needs to be aware of the various employment laws that can affect your hiring procedures.
At Silkin Management Group we also encourage our clients to use pre-employment testing as part of their screening procedures. This, though, is another area where you must make sure that the tests you use have no discriminatory nature or questions. Your tests must be limited to a candidate’s traits and abilities that are directly related to the job being considered. Questions about their personal life, membership in any protected classification (race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, etc.) are not allowed.
But, if for example, you are hiring a receptionist, testing for their communication skills would not be “out of bounds” and in fact relevant to the job. The testing procedures that Silkin Management Group uses follows the basic employment laws and provides an employer with good, job relevant information. This makes the hiring process easier to conduct resulting in much higher odds that the candidate hired will work out well on the job.
If you would like more information about Silkin Management Group’s pre-employment testing and interview procedures, contact us at 800-695-0257 or visit our website at www.silkinmanagementgroup.com
Gary Crawshaw
Silkin Management Group Consultant
