Employment
Employment
I’ve
read the article from the World business newspaper FINANCIAL TIMES. This
article about: “How to select the best candidates—and avoid the worst?” I think
all companies have this problem.
Investing
thousands of pounds in the recruitment and training of each new graduate
recruit may be just the beginning. Choosing the wrong candidate may leave an
organization paying for years to come.
Few
companies will have escaped all of the following failures: people who panic at
the 1st sign of stress, people who seem incapable of learning, unstable people.
The
1st point to bear in mind at the recruitment stage is that people don’t change.
Intelligence levels decline modestly, but change little over their working
life. The same is true of abilities, such as learning languages and handling
numbers.
Most
people like to think that personality can change, particularly the more
negative features. But date affected over 50 years gives a clear message: still
stable after all these years. Personal crises can affect the way we cope with
things: we might take up or drop drink, drugs. Skills can be improved, and new
ones introduced, but at rather different rates. People can be groomed for a
job. Of course, people can be sent on training courses, diplomas, but better to
select for what you actually see rather than attempt to change it.
I
think that people can change during their life. They grow up and change their
world view and ideology. They get a lot of information during their life, they
reed books, meet new people, go around different society. In these
circumstances people can’t stay the same during their whole life.