We have learned a lot this term about many different concepts on how to successfully recruit and hire employees to companies. This is something really important to learn at this time as most of us will be the employees getting hired soon, so it is great that we will be able to know what to expect when going through this process. I think it can be very interesting to learn about people’s personalities and how it affects their work while performing their job, or effects the likelihood of receiving the job in the first place.
The concepts that I thought were very important and most influential to me were learning about personalities. I have always thought that when you are deciding on candidates with equal qualifications, that you should pick the one that fits the team chemistry the best. I think personality tests are great for this in the hiring process so that you can tell which personality traits will work best with your group when it comes down to the final, qualified candidates. We learned about the Big 5 model which include the main descriptions of people’s personality. The big 5 include openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. The studies and work that went into this test to get the Big 5 Model go very in depth when using adjectives and other words to describe people’s personalities. Assessing employees in the hiring process based off of these characteristics can be a really good way to ensure the employee you are hiring will be a good fit with the company. You also can get a gauge on what consistent behavior from the individual will look like, which is another bonus when hiring employees. Ultimately, not much progress can happen in the workplace if people are not on the same page, or in disagreement about certain actions and values.
