Imagine you have been hired as the first HR manager at a small start-up business. You learn that the owner, who interviews all job candidates, believes that structured, skills-focused interview questions are "boring" and "not cool How would you advise this person about the selection process?

A selection process involves screening, selection, hiring of a candidate who could fulfil the job requirements and accomplish the given tasks and duties in the organization.

This selection process may involve different types of interviews like structured, skills-focused, unstructured which are used by different interviewers depending upon the needs of the job and their organizations.

How a selection process can be taken up under the given scenario?

Selection process of every organization differs from another and selection of interview type and whole process of selection also differs from one interviewer to another.

This states selection process and interview type are both subjective in nature and there is no fixed rule which applies over here.

But in order to conduct a selection process an interviewer must follow some important points which includes-

1. Nature of job

The most important thing which comes in a selection process is studying the nature of the job. If the interviewer does not know what is the job all about. how will he conduct the selection process?

Without knowing about the nature of the job and its requirements, interviewer cannot decide the correct interview pattern and methodologies to be followed during the whole process, which means understanding the nature of job is very important.

2. Type of organization

Another important thing to be kept in mind is understanding and analysing the type of organization, interviewer is conducting the selection process.

Example.

A manufacturing company may follow different selection process when compared with a company engaged in providing customer services.

3. Be situational

An interviewer must be situational and respond to the things as they arise. He must have innate abilities to analyse the situations and act accordingly so that a best candidate is selected and organization's motive gets fulfilled.

Example.

Every candidate has his/her own personality and way of thinking and therefore this must be analysed well by the interviewer as he cannot follow same interview approach with everyone and therefore he must understand the behavior of the candidate, see the other job requirements and accordingly ask questions which are valid.

Conclusion

Selection process is a subjective concept which means no organization can apply the same set of procedures and rules in a uniform manner and adopt a standardised method and process of selecting the candidates.

But there are some important considerations which an interviwer must keep in mind during the selection process and hire the best choice for the company.