Evaluate Your Candidates

Making a Good Hiring Decision

You have gathered information about your candidates through:

• Application materials
• Phone interviews (optional)
• In person or Skype interviews
• Testing, presentations or “sample work” (optional)
• Reference Checks

Now, how do you make a good, thoughtful and defensible decision?

Review the job description, application matrix, interview notes and reference checks

• What are the key responsibilities of the position?
• Which candidates have the most experience with these tasks?
• Which candidates were able to demonstrate their abilities best during the interviews, testing and other interactions?
• What did the references reveal in terms of the candidates abilities to perform the key job functions?

Which candidate do you feel is best and why?

• Use your committee.  Do you all agree?  What are the differences?  How can you use the job description to reach a consensus?
• Tie your decision back to the job description and take some notes that you can use to create your hiring memo to include with your HireSmart! Checklist
• Stuck?  Contact your Employment and Compensation Analyst for help.