Timing of the interview
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Selecting applicants is an integral part of sales force planning and requires matching company needs with applicant potential. Companies use a variety of selection tools such as application blanks, interviews, tests, reference checks and assessment centers to evaluate applicants. Hiring decisions must be based on objective, job-related criteria that are validated to predict job performance in order to comply with anti-discrimination laws. The optimal selection process evaluates applicants using multiple validated tools and compares results to job requirements to make the best hiring decisions.
Timing of the interview
- 1. Selecting Applicants Sales Management Chapter 6 Irene Mae Simon Genevieve Lara
- 2. Selecting Applicants and Strategic Planning Selecting applicants is an integral part of implementing the strategic sales force planning. Matching company needs and applicants’ potential is very important to the strategic and tactical aspects of sales force management.
- 4. The sequence in which selection tools are used varies among companies. Initial screening (beyond that done in recruiting) may start with an application blank, an interview, or some form of test.
- 5. Legal Considerations Hiring decisions may no longer be made on “gut feeling.” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides that the selection of employees must be based on the objective criteria. These criteria must be (1) independently measurable, (2) job related, and (3) predictive of performance.
- 6. is the statistical Validation process of measuring the extent to which a given selection tool or hiring qualification is a predictor of, or is related to, job performance.
- 7. Application Blanks The application blank – or personal- history record, as it is sometimes called, is one of the two most widely used selection tools. (The other is the interview.)
- 8. Information Asked for on Application Blanks On the application blanks, experience requirements are usually divided into two groups, educational background and work experience. Most application blanks ask for information about the candidate’s employment history, including periods of unemployment
- 9. PERSONAL INTERVIEWS A personal interview is used basically to determine a person’s fitness for a job. Moreover personal interviews disclose characteristics that are not always observable by other means. Another purpose in interviewing is to interpret and get further information about facts stated on the application blank.
- 10. Fundamentally, all the questions asked during an interview are aimed at learning four points about the applicant: • Is this person capable of excelling at this job? • How badly does this applicant want the job? • Will the job help this person to realize his or her goals? • Will this applicant work to his or her fullest ability?
- 11. Reliability of Personal Interviews as Predictors of Success It has been discovered that behavioural/performanc e-based interviews are better predictors of success in the sales job than other types of interviews.
- 12. Improving the Validity of Interviews There are ways to offset these weakness and improve the validity of interviews as predictors of job performance. It is important thoroughly review the applicant’s resume or application before proceeding further in the selection process.
- 13. Interview Structure Selection interviews can differ, depending on the extent to which the questions are detailed in advance and the conversation is guided by the interviewer. At one end of the scale is the totally structured or guided interview and at the other end is the informal, non directed type.
- 14. Guided Interviews The guided interview seeks to overcome problems encountered in using personal interviews as a selection technique. Non Directed Interviews The interviewer ask a few questions to get the applicant talking on certain subjects, such as his or her business experiences, home life or school activities. The interviewer does very little talking – just enough to keep the conversation rolling.
- 15. Interview Focus One type poses questions concerning the candidate’s past or intended behaviours which relate to their sales aptitude. Another focuses on the candidate’s performance of selling related exercises.
- 16. Behaviorally Based Interviews Questions which focus on past behavior are based on the premise that what a person has done in the past is indicative of what he or she will do in the future. Applicants who have performed successfully in the past are expected to be successful in the new job
- 17. Performance-Based Interviews Some companies ask candidates to perform exercises simulating selling situations. Stress Interviews The stress interview is one in which the interviewer intentionally places the applicant under stress.
- 18. Timing of the Interview
- 19. During Initial Screening Companies often use an interview as the initial screening device. At Later Stage Firms that do a thorough selection job ordinarily interview applicants several times before they are hired.
- 20. Psychological Test Major tools often used in the sales selection process. Psychological testing has undoubtedly been the most controversial of all selection tools
- 21. What is Psychological Test? A field characterized by the use of samples of behavior in order to assess psychological construct(s), such as cognitive and emotional functioning, about a given individual. The technical term for the science behind psychological testing is psychometrics. By samples of behavior, one means observations of an individual performing tasks that have usually been prescribed beforehand, which often means scores on a test
- 22. Psychometrics the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, , which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality tr aits, and education measurement. . The field is primarily concerned with the construction and validation of measurement instruments such as question, tests, and personality assessments.
- 23. REASONS Employers has become more knowledgeable about the legal requirement surrounding the use of test. Some studies have shown that testing is a better predictor of job performance than any other section job. Finally as the cost of making a poor selection decision continue to rise , employers are turning to testing as an additional mean of improving their selection decision.
- 24. Legal Aspect of Testing Legislation put restraints on the use of testing in the selection “testing is legal”. Properly validated and standardized employee selection procedures can significantly contribute to the implementation of non-discriminatory personnel policies.
- 25. Framework for Testing Ideally, test should be used to provide objective information about a candidate’s skills and abilities. * It is important to remember that no test can predict with 100% accuracy. Therefore the result should not be used as the sole acceptance or knock out factor.
- 26. Selecting and Developing Test In building a good testing program, a company should use test which measure the criteria develop during the planning phase of the hiring process.
- 27. Problem In Testing Testing may eliminate the truly creative person, who may fall in the average or normal range in testing at the same time. Creativity may be the very trait that would make that person an outstanding sales representative.
- 28. • Test are sometimes misused because executive fail to apply the concept of a range of score. • All who fall within that range should be judged as equally qualified for the job. • Another factor to watch for in testing is that applicants can fake the answers on some tests.
- 29. Reference and Other Outside Sources Reference checks may be made by letter, telephone or personal visit, and each method has some limitations.
- 30. • Personal visit may take too much time, or the telephone is advantage because nothing is in writing. • Some companies will not supply information to a stranger over the telephone. • A letter is used more frequently than the two other methods.
- 31. Assessment Centers A Technique centralized, comprehensive evaluation procedure involving tests, interviews and simulation exercises such a business games, discussion group, role playing and individual presentation.
- 32. Reaching A Decision About An Applicant When all the steps in the selection process have been completed, one thing remains to be done. A company must decide whether to make a job offer. This decision involves a review of everything know about each applicant.
- 33. Summary The last step in the sales force selection process involves (1) developing a system of tools and procedures to measure the applicants against the predetermined hiring specification and the (2) actually putting this system into operation to select the salespeople.