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SELECTION
 SELECTION

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“Selection is the process of choosing
qualified individuals who are available
to fill the positions in organization.”
 BASIC SELECT ION
CRITERIA
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Formal Education

Experience and Past Performance

BASIC
S EL ECTION
CRITERIA Physical Characteristics

Personality Characteristics
 SELECTION PROCESS
Initial screening
Fail to meet minimum
qualification Passed
Completed application
Failed to complete job
application or failed job Passed
specification
Employment test
Failed Test
Passed
Passed Conditional job
Assessment / Interview
offer
Failed to impress
interviewer and / meet
job expectations
Background Check
Problem if required
encountered
Passed
Reject Applicant
Medical/physical examination if
Unfit to do essential required (conditional job offer
elements of job Able to perform
essential elements
of job

Permanent job offer

 Recruitment for
permanent &
temporary employees (Telenor)
Offer
Acceptance
Assessme
6-8 weeks nt center,
Consist of 7 test &
key elements interview Yes No
s

Recruitment If offer is not

forwards accepted,
Identify
Candidate the accepted recruitment
hiring need
Finalizati
and prepare
on & offer
offer to reserves the
hiring plan concerned right to
approval
regional withdraw
operations. offer
Prepare
Job Yes
Description Offer
placeme
nt

Sourcing
and Offer email is Recruited
sent to
vacancy
selected
or
announce
ment candidate Rejected

Screen
and
shortlist
applicants
 SELECTION METHODS
The Three most Common Methods
used are:
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1. Testing

2. Assessment Centre

3. Interviewing
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Test Development
 Test Development

Testing
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Tests measure knowledge, skill,
and ability, as well as other
characteristics, such as
personality traits.

TESTING TYPES

Personality Physical Integrity Technical

IQ Test GMAT
Test Ability Test Test Testing
 Test Development
2. Physical Ability
1. I Q Testing

It measures the learning,

 Testing

It assesses muscular
understanding, and ability
strength, cardiovascular
to solve problems. e.g. TESTING endurance, and
Intelligence Tests. TYPES
coordination.

3. Personality Testing

It measures the patterns of

thought, emotion, and
behavior. e.g. Big Five
Personality Traits, Myers
Briggs
Personality

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 Conscientiousness : Tendency towards orderliness, dutifulness,
achievement striving, self-discipline, and caution

 Increases goal setting behaviors

 Increases self-efficacy
 Increases value placed on social order and conformity

 Extroversion: A tendency towards friendliness, gregariousness,

assertiveness, activity, and excitement seeking
 Associated with increased self-efficacy
 Linked to achievement motivation
 More important in social situations like leadership
 Can increase citizenship behavior (helping) in some social situations
 Extraversion is a hindrance in distributive bargaining
 Higher variability in extroversion linked to superior group performance
 Agreeableness: A tendency towards trust, morality,
altruism, cooperation, modesty, and sympathy
 Agreeable individuals are more helpful in minimally
constrained situations
 Agreeable individuals prefer tasks calling for helping,
but dislike tasks calling for conflict
 Agreeableness is related to citizenship and helping
performance in groups
 Openness to experience: A tendency towards imagination,
artistic interests, emotionality, adventurousness, “intellect”,
and liberalism
 More flexible organization of ideas
 Mildly linked to goal setting motivation
 Place more value on universalism and self-direction;
tend to distain conformity and tradition
 Open individuals learn faster in situations calling for
change
 Openness is very strongly linked to creativity
 More likely to be entrepreneurs
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Neuroticism
 Linked to worry, negative emotional states,
and increased use of avoidance coping
strategies
 Negatively linked to all aspects of motivation
 Less likely to do well as entrepreneurs
 Higher variability in neuroticism negatively
linked to team performance
 Test Development

4. Integrity Testing
 6. G M AT

It is designed to assess
the likelihood that
applicants will be
dishonest or engage in
illegal activity.
It measures Verbal
TESTING Assessment, Numerical
TYPES / Quantitative, Critical
/ Analytical Reasoning

5. Technical Testing

The Technical test measures

applicants in different areas
and provides insight as to
what kind and type of
Technical person they are.
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 These are the most common types of aptitude test that you will
encounter:
 Numerical reasoning tests. These tests require you to answer
questions based on statistics, figures and charts.
 Verbal reasoning tests. A means of assessing your verbal logic
and capacity to quickly digest information from passages of
text.
 In-tray exercises. A business-related scenario that assesses how
well you can priorities tasks.
 Diagrammatic tests. Tests that measure your logical reasoning,
usually under strict time conditions.
 Situational judgment tests. Psychological tests that assess your
judgment in resolving work-based problems.
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 Inductive reasoning tests. Tests that identify how well a candidate
can see the underlying logic in patterns, rather than words or
numbers.
 Cognitive ability tests. A measurement of general intelligence,
covering many categories of aptitude test.
 Mechanical reasoning tests. These assess your ability to apply
mechanical or engineering principles to problems; they are often used
for technical roles.
 Watson Glaser tests. Designed to assess a candidate's ability to
critically consider arguments; often used by law firms.
 Abstract reasoning tests. Another name for inductive reasoning tests.
 Spatial awareness tests. These tests assess your capacity to mentally
manipulate images, and are often used in applications for jobs in
design, engineering and architecture.
 Error checking tests. An unusual type of aptitude test that focuses on
your ability to identify errors in complex data sets.
 Test Development

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Custom Aptitude Test:

The Custom Aptitude test is a multiple-choice test, which is

customized for your company. There are up to 60 questions per test
with up to a 5 answers. Included with the system, a Math Test,
spelling test, Vocabulary test, MS Word Test, General Knowledge
Test etc. All tests may be edited or customized for any area of
knowledge you need. Or all portions can be part of one Test.
 TEST
SAMPLE

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 Exercise

Develop a TEST 
 80 Questions and 1 Essay
 100 Marks and 120 Mins
 Numerical Portion, Verbal Reasoning, General
Knowledge

Answer Sheet:
Answer Key