Useful guidelines to hire the best candidates

Reliability of candidate’s resume is not 100% many a times the recruiter has to validate the credentials & statements tactfully.

Here are some tips you can use to ensure hiring the best candidate:

1.      Verify details: Cross check the dates, work history details etc. as given in the resume. Make sure you have a verification process in place and can double-check the facts given.

2.      Scrutinize:  Too much of job hopping, no sound reason for leaving an employer or even long periods of self employment. Anything and everything that raises the slightest doubt and does not have a proper explanation should be investigated further.

3.      Hiring Checklist:  The checklist for hiring an employee keeps your recruiting efforts on track and communicates progress to interested employees and the hiring manager.

4.      Pre-screening: You can determine whether their salary expectation is matching with your job. A skilled telephone interviewer will also obtain evidence about whether the candidate may fit within the organization.

5.      Background check & references: Effective background checks are one of the most important steps when hiring an employee. You need to verify that all the presented, sterling credentials, skills, and experience are actually possessed by your candidate.

6.      Social Networking Sites: Use social networking sites to get more information on candidate profiles. The information on public domains will help you verify the details submitted by the candidates in their resumes. The candidate's behaviour on social networking sites will also give an added insight into the person's nature, attitude and possible work ethic. (This is method is indeed proven one.)

7.      Skill Tests:  Make sure you take relevant skill test & just do not go by the resume statements.

8.      Intuition: Last but not the least, trust your intuition. Your intuition and sixth sense can judge about how right the candidates are than any physical verification process. If your sixth sense tells you something is not right, do not ignore it, but follow up on it.