Identify Outstanding Candidates From Bad Ones

By Joseph Jacob


Selecting the most suitable candidate for a job position is not very easy. Even if all companies try to select the best candidate for a job position by checking their applications, many fail to select the right one. Most of the companies hire bad people and end up with lots of problems.

Due to this issue, selecting a person by only checking the application should not be done. It is important to select one through a series of interviews and background checking processes. Recruiters can follow various tactics to identify good candidates. Here are some few tips to differentiate good applicants from bad ones.

Good candidates appear in interviews on time. Punctuality of an individual says lots of things about his behavior. If an individual performs punctually, he knows the cost of time and he also respect to the interviewer's time. If someone does not come on time for interviews, the prospect of getting the same attitude is high when he performs.

If someone has related work experiences and education background, he can be considered as a good one. We cannot expect good performances from a person who do not know anything about the job he is being going to hire. It is important to check the backgrounds of candidates for related experiences without directly accepting the things their CVs say.

Good candidates have perfect gestures. Hence, ensure to analyze the verbal communication as well as the nonverbal communication of the candidate during the interview. Excellent candidates display their professionalism, reliability, and confidence all the time. Individual that cannot keep excellent eye contacts, who does not display interest when you talk cannot be recognized as an excellent people. Good applicants keep good eye contacts, give solid handshakes, keep their complete concentration during the whole discussion and raise queries direct to the point.

Good candidates do not have police records at all. So, it is essential to execute a criminal history analysis of all candidates.

Good applicants are desperate to handle everything in their new career. They always illustrate their attention on the occupation and its obligations.

If someone has different career paths in his past track records, or if someone says that he wants to go through a completely different path, he will not retain in the job so long. Therefore, never hire such people because they will leave from the job soon.

If there are any mismatches between the things he said and the things you found during the background check, do not recruit such person no matter he has told a small lie.

These guidelines will assist you to distinguish excellent applicants from bad ones. Therefore, apply them during any recruitment to stay away from issues.




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