RE: Recommendations For Standardized Testing In Hiring Processes At Multinational Corporations, Part 1
Very informative post as usual. Structured interviews are a technique I learned when working at a very large multinational that I still use in my small business today. This article is most helpful for large companies with many employees. Many small businesses like mine lack the basics like well defined job descriptions. Without that, how do you determine skills necessary to succeed? Small businesses also don't have large numbers of people doing the same jobs which makes analysis of successful traits more difficult. There are trade organizations you can join that share information across many small businesses that can help address the issues of small samples size and informal HR practices. However, large companies still have some advantages in applying these hiring processes.
You are right, in this post I address what a large multinational company can do in order to increase the quality of their hires. For small businesses, it is harder because of several factors. Among these, the ones you mention, like not well defined job descriptions, not enough employees for cross-validation, etc. I did not know about those trade organizations, I think it is a great way of addressing those problems. Thank you for sharing that information!