HR? We Got to change it!

To many times I have come across friends, other fellow employees, and relatives that have come back from an interview from a dream job, and felt they did something wrong. Either they said the wrong thing, sat the wrong way, or sweat to much. Any of these things are reasonable thoughts that are an outcome of a conventional interview. What if we could totally change the way an interview was performed and thus created better preceptions of candidates and make better decisions. Business would be more productive and effective when it comes to the most important part about business, PEOPLE. People are the fuel that can take us to our organizational goals and meet our production targets each year. But, it also happens that this is the most complex part of any business, so why can't we have a system where we simplify this complexity and make the right decisions when it comes to HR.

A new system of recruitment and training can change the way we participate in HR. This system involves a three step process which includes a group interview, then after a formal interview, then finishing with a personal interview. The process may be long, but there lies the commitment to the business. If a successful cannidate can go through the whole process, they will have no unrealistic expectations about the company and the socialization to the organizational culture would also start within the interview. Lots of people do not like the jobs they work partly because the culture of the organization does not match them specifically. Working at a good company and making money is a significiant part of people's lives, so you want a cohesiveness that can last a long time, so the employees can be as useful as possible to the organizational goals.

More about the process, the group interview can let raters and evaluators judge people in a very reasonable group inevironment. Knowing that business is a place where group work is almost unavoidable, this would be neccessary to see how cannidates communicate with others. The only difference is that, their would be no evaluations being written at the time, whereas, the would come together afterwards and discuss the pros and cons of each applicant. If successful in the group interview, then comes the first of two one on one interviews. The first would be formal interview, asking about past work experience etc. However, in the group interview, each cannidate can learn a little bit more about these people interviewing them, and accordingly, not be as nervous to go into the interview. The last interview, is a less formal, casual meeting of the evaluator and cannidate. This is an interview and discussion about their goals of the working with the company, what their expectations are, and what the company expects from them. As well, more personal information such as where they went to school, and what sort of things they learned that would be of value to the company. This last interview would be extremely confortable because it is in a less formal setting and also, the cannidate and interviewers could build a little bit of relationship before.

I feel that this process of hiring and training can really prepare the cannidates for work. As well, it educates the employer about the people they are hiring on and would give them a better perspective on who to hire. HR needs to change to reduce the amount of miss hires and thus created a better organizational culture within the business.

Small changes like these, can affect the organizational greatly in the long run and thus contribute to a better organization environment. But has to start with HR.