![]() For managerial and professional positions, an applicant may be interviewed by several persons, including the line manager for the position to be filled. The tool most widely used in making hiring decisions is the selection interview, an in-depth discussion of an applicant’s work experience, skills and abilities, education, and career interests. The profile was used for personality testing and to develop interview questions that reveal how an applicant may behave in certain work situations.Įxhibit 8.6 Steps of the Employee Selection Process (Attribution: Copyright Rice University, OpenStax, under CC BY 4.0 license.) LaCroix was helped by Predictive Index (PI) Worldwide in determining Yankee Candle’s best- and worst-performing store managers for developing a best practice behavioral profile of a top-performing store manager. HR Senior Vice President Martha LaCroix of the Yankee Candle Company uses personality assessments to make sure that prospective employees will fit the firm’s culture. Used individually or together, the tests can assess cognitive ability (ability to learn, adapt, and solve problems), motivation potential (attitude, behavior performance, and productivity), and knowledge and skills (math, verbal, data entry, software proficiency). Wonderlic offers a suite of pre-employment tests for each phase of the hiring process. Following initial screening, the applicant may be asked to take one or more tests, such as the Wonderlic Personnel Tests. The job application includes information about educational background, previous work experience, and job duties performed.Įmployment testing. During initial screening, an applicant completes an application form and/or submits a résumé, and has a brief interview of 30 minutes or less. Selection steps or hurdles are described below: Alternatively, an applicant can be rejected at any step or hurdle. An applicant who can jump over each step, or hurdle, will very likely receive a job offer thus, this is known as the successive hurdles approach to applicant screening. The steps in the employee selection process are shown in (Figure). Selection is the process of determining which people in the applicant pool possess the qualifications necessary to be successful on the job. How do firms select qualified applicants?Īfter a firm has attracted enough job applicants, employment specialists begin the selection process.Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, he recalled, had done much for Canada, including "being the first to welcome a delegation of indigenous people in 2009 to begin this long process of reconciliation," and the one "who canonized the first indigenous woman in North America: Kateri Tekakwitha and Brother André, also from Montreal."Ĭardinal Lacroix also recalled that when he was appointed Archbishop, Benedict XVI had said to the Apostolic Nuncio, "When Bishop Lacroix accepts the responsibility, tell him that I want to see him fifteen days after he begins his ministry."Īdmitting he was very curious as to why the Pope wanted to see him, the Canadian Cardinal expressed joy and appreciation that upon his arrival in Rome, the late Benedict received him for almost a half hour only to encourage and listen to him, offer some good advice, and thank him for accepting. The Cardinal encouraged the faithful to return to the late Pope Emeritus' writings, speeches, homilies, and books, which, he said, “deserve to be explored and developed further.” Benedict's care for Canada ![]() I was honoured to be there also on behalf of the people of Quebec and of Quebec, of the French-speaking people of Canada.” While present at the General Audience where Pope Francis praised Benedict XVI as a "master of the catechesis," Cardinal Lacroix shared his delight in seeing “the gratitude for this man who was not exuberant, who did not have the charisma of his predecessor or his successor, the charisma of the crowds, but who had the charisma of authenticity, of truth, of love and of his link with the Lord which was visible in his being.” "I watched the faithful pass by with a respect, a silence that you almost never hear in the Basilica, when there are tourists," he said. The Cardinal said he went twice to pay his respects to the Pope Emeritus while he was lying in state in St. ![]() Pope Benedict chose to show us that even if you no longer have the strength, the capacity to be active in ministry, you are still active in prayer and you are still useful.” Charism of authenticity John Paul II showed us his perseverance until the end, we saw him almost at the last hours of his life. ![]()
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