Stages in the hiring process

After going through at least one – but usually more – of these recruitment channels to assemble a pool of applicants, the human resource department may spend a weeks and sometimes months on the selection process. Most companies go through the same basic steps in sifting through applications to come up with the person or people they want.

First, the small number of qualified candidates is separated from applicants. A person may be chosen on the basis of the standard application fоrm that all candidates are required to fill out or on the basis of the resume, which is the summary of education, experience, interest and other personal data, compiled by the applicant. Sometimes both sources of information are used.

Application forms typically include questions about a person`s job experience, and they might include some about matters that are not strictly job-related. But questions about some unrelated factors are prohibited by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) because they yield information that can be used to discriminate against people illegally. Questions about religion, age, gender, marital, or family status, physical handicaps, arrest records, and financial affairs fall into this category. Thus companies have had to develop better, less discriminatory ways of finding out whether a person can handle a job.

Level 1

Task 1. Make up the word combination.

human factors

financial affairs

application experience

unrelated resource

job forms

Task 2 Put the words in the sentences in the correct order:

1) Is, separated, number, the, small, applicants, from, candidates, of, qualified.

2) Typically, forms, questions, аpplication, include, a, person`s, about, experience, job.

3) The, standard, may be chosen, on, fоrm, application, a, person, the, basis, of.

4) Sources, sometimes, used, of, both, information, are.

Level 2

Task 1. Complete the sentences. Use the key words: personal data, application forms, selection process, qualified candidates, standard application, applicants.

1) The human resource department may spend a weeks and sometimes months on the__________________.

2) The small number of ________________is separated from________________.

3) ____________typically include questions about a person`s job experience.

4) A person may be chosen on the basis of the _____________.

5) A resume is the summary of education, experience, interest and other _____________.

Task 2 Find equivalents in the text:

коло кандидатів канали найму

особисті дані процес відбору

досвід роботи на основі резюме

сімейний статус фінансові справи