Choice criteria of personnel selection methods

DOI

10.2991/ttiess-17.2017.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

personnel, hiring process, selection methods, choice criteria

Abstract

This study investigates the staff selection process and identifies particular criteria influencing the personnel selection methods. Such methods of personnel selection as screening, interview, questionnaire, lie detector, biographical method, assessment center and reference checks are analyzed. This empirical research is based on a sample of 40 companies of different business areas from St. Petersburg, Russia. The authors use regression models for testing several hypothesis regarding the relation between selection methods and the factors such as company's size, age, business area, job complexity or the number of required skills, and the amount of required training. The authors found that the more skills are required for a job position, the higher the degree of use of personnel selection methods by the companies. Moreover, the authors observe that business area influence the degree of use of selection methods. In particular, construction companies use phone interviews more intensive than companies of other business areas do. Financial companies use lie detector more frequently than others do; manufacturing companies – biographical methods and reference checks. Finally, large companies use more phone interviews, personality test, questionnaire and lie detector compared to small companies. At the same time, authors did not reveal the relation between length of formal adaptation period and the degree of use of personnel selection methods.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vladimir Andreevich Kadnikov
AU  - Alexandra Dmitrievna Kosintseva
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Choice criteria of personnel selection methods
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Trends of Technologies and Innovations in Economic and Social Studies 2017
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 266
EP  - 272
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ttiess-17.2017.45
DO  - 10.2991/ttiess-17.2017.45
ID  - Kadnikov2017/06
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