The Selection Process

4.0 SELECTION

Selection is the process by which an organization chooses from a list of applicants the person or persons who best meet the selection criteria for the position available, considering current environmental conditions. All selection programs attempt to identify the applicants who have the highest chance of meeting or exceeding the organization’s standards of performance. Selection process is being influenced by the internal environment and external environment factors.

But selection must be differentiated from recruitment, though these are two phases of employment process. Recruitment is considered to be a positive process as it motivates more of candidates to apply for the job. It creates a pool of applicants. It is just sourcing of data. While selection is a negative process as the inappropriate candidates are rejected here. Recruitment precedes selection in staffing process. Selection involves choosing the best candidate with best abilities, skills and knowledge for the required job.

Effective selection can be done only when there is an effective matching. By selecting best candidate for the required job, the organization will get quality performance of employees. Moreover, organization will face less of absenteeism and employee turnover problems. By selecting right candidate for the required job, organization will also save time and money. Proper screening of candidates takes place during selection procedure. All the potential candidates who apply for the given job are tested.

4.1 INFLUENCES ON THE SELECTION PROCESS

Selection process can be influenced by many factors. There are internal and external environments. Both internal and external environments will give influences in term on how the selection process is being conducted and implemented. A good HR person will know how to select the best candidates based on the information available and the experiences they have. Sometime they need to follow their heart and their intuition in making a wise decision.

4.1.1 Internal Environment

For internal environments; size, complexity and technology play important roles in influencing the selection process. Nowadays the development and implementation of large scale selection efforts are very costly. Big organizations pay a huge amount of money in order to come out with a complex selection system. By having the selection system, they can manage the exercise in a proper manner.

The size of an organization does not determine how selection is approached. With the big investment the company had invested in introducing the selection system, they need to recover the cost by filling sufficient number of jobs. The candidates that had been chosen must be right in term of their competencies and characters. At the same time the employee who had