Question

Discuss job criteria and the pitfalls managers must avoid when using job criteria.

Answer 1

Here are the discussion pointers defining job criteria:

• It is the minimum criteria or requirements which an applicant needs to have to ger selection and perform a particular job.
• Job criteria are prepared during the promotion phase of recruitment to attract the right talent as per the skills set & competencies required to perform the job.
• The overall role of job criteria is to help the organisation to select the best candidates for the job role.
• Key aspects covered in the job criteria involves education qualification, work experience in the past, the skill level of the candidate and expertise in the same sector. All these are from the employer mindset and perspective.
• From the employee's/ candidates perspective, it involves job profile and security-related aspects. Also includes salary, benefits and other advantages, location and city, career growth aspects and opportunities.

Here are the pitfalls which the manager must avoid using job criteria:

• The manager must sure that some level of fluidity should be there. It shouldn't be defined in a too rigid sense so that it becomes challenging for someone to perform even through capabilities are present to perform other important tasks.
• The manager must avoid leaving no scope of cooperation and support while defining the job criteria. The indifference attitude should be avoided and equal support must be given to perform the particular job criteria.
• Another pitfall which must be avoided that the job criteria should not be updated - It should be considering the future changes and tech conditions so that it doesn't cost to create and repeat the process again in near future.

Other pitfall areas that must be avoided include:

• Regular update of the job criteria and outdated information and data should not be mentioned in the same.
• It should not lack the scope for innovation and ideas which can help the overall organisation.
• Both job criteria by employee and employer should correlate with each other otherwise it can create confusions.

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