Skilled Workers

Evaluating Applicants in Today’s Australian Job Market

In today's intensely competitive marketplace, delivering people with the right skills is just the beginning of a successful human resource solution. What is needed are workers with the motivation to do the job and working styles that integrate easily into any working environment.

Employers focus on the whole person, looking at all the critical factors that equate to success on the job. Interviewers can evaluate if people not only 'can do' and 'will do' the job but if they 'will fit' into any work environment.

Can Do: Experience, skills and tasks The essential first step in any recruiting process is to ensure that skills match the job description to ensure the candidate can do the job. Skilled candidates are all evaluated and assessments range from analyzing data and conversing aptitude to inventory checking and logical reasoning.

Will Do: Motivation and work attitude Recognizing that performance and productivity are as much influenced by who a person is as by the skills they possess, human resource managers use a battery of behavioral and attitude evaluation programs.

Will fit: Work environment Every company, indeed every job, presents a unique work environment and everyone has personal preferences about how and where they work, whether an applicant likes to work alone or with people, requires close or limited supervision and prefers routine or varied work tasks. This factor is important for applicants of