Leadership Staff Selection - What's Your Process?

[Matthew]

As a human resources professional, I do a lot of talent screening, interviewing, and selection for my company. My role is to help management create a stellar team ready to tackle all of our challenges. This process takes time, attention, and lots of reading.

My current process is this (in a nutshell):

• Resume/application prescreen to filter in those who would be possible choices
• Make a first contact attempt with email to try to schedule an initial prescreening interview
• (Follow up according to number of candidates/interest/urgency of position)
• Do an initial teams interview to get to know the candidate, their experience, what research they did, etc.
• Send qualified and decent choices over to management to review for a secondary interview on site at the branches.

There's obviously more to it but I spend a lot of time using the STAR interview method to assess behavior in an interview.

This got me thinking - how do we select the right teammates for our forums? What is our processes? What is lacking in our staff selection processes? Let me know below how you select the right talent for your project!

 

[Ravenfreak]

What I like to do when hiring staff is take a look and see how active the members are who filled out the staff application. If they're quite active, haven't asked to be staff in the past and have no infractions I will most likely hire them. If they aren't that active, begged to be staff or have any warnings I will pass them over for someone else.