One of the biggest takeaways from this class is that integrity is a huge part of employee recruitment and selection. I found that it can be very easy for applicants to lie and cheat their way through the recruitment process. The tests given to potential applicants assess various skills and traits, but for ones regarding personal aspects of an individual, answers can be easily manipulated. Tests that assess an applicant’s skills are the best measures of skill and future performance, because it is unlikely someone can fake their talent on a specific test. It is scary to think that for jobs that do rely on personality measures and a judgement of character, that people can act differently than they truly are to try and match the organizational culture. A second thing that stuck with me is the idea that discrimination in the workplace plays a role in some organization’s hiring process. How I was raised, and also in the midst of the injustice taking place in the world right now, I just don’t understand how leaders of organizations discriminate between applicants based off anything that doesn’t have to do with their actual skill, knowledge or talent. The fact that applicants can be chosen over others that may be more qualified because they are white or because they are male is so extremely ignorant to me and just makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s frustrating to me that organizations have just in recent years have spoken out about becoming more diverse and how diversity it is important to them, when I just get why it isn’t equal in the first place. I know racism and discrimination against minorities and women is rooted in America’s history, but the fact that it is still an issue in today’s day and age blows my mind. It is a good thing companies are trying to fix it, but it shouldn’t have had to be a thing to “fix” in the first place.
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