Question

Assume you are a manager of a small business that employs about 25 people. You need to hire additional people to accommodate an increase in sales. Using your own experiences and information from the textbook, respond to the following points and questions. Any information taken from the book should be cited.

• Identify one screening process you would recommend the hiring manager uses to find the best applicants. Explain why you selected this screening process.
• Salary is one form of compensation. Benefits and incentives are other forms of compensation. Benefits and incentives can range from flex time to paid time off, health insurance, bonuses, and commissions. Providing benefits can be very expensive for companies to provide.  
• Identify the three most important benefits you look for in a company.
• Explain your answer.
• Compensation is often tied to evaluation. Select the best method to use for evaluating employee performance. Identify and describe this method.

Answer 1

Identify one screening process you would recommend the hiring manager uses to find the best applicants. Explain why you selected this screening process.

Phone interview

After receiving applications for a particular job and going through the applications, the manager can find the most relevant applications and call those applicants. The phone interview can help the manager in assessing the knowledge and skills of the candidates without having to call them for face-to-face interviews.

This phone interview can help the manager in determining which candidates are best suitable for the company based on their replies over the phone. The chosen candidates from this interview can be interviewed face-to-face.

This will reduce the time to conduct face-to-face interviews as only the screened candidates will be asked to attend. Thus, making face-to-face interviews less tiresome and more effective in hiring the right candidtae.