Productivity Improvement

Employee Evaluation and Selection

Constructs for employee evaluation and selection questions

Communications | Self motivation | Interpersonal skills | Decision making | Knowledge / Skill | Career development | Management |

Construct 6 | Career development aspiration

Career ambition

• The expressed desire to advance to higher job levels with active efforts toward self development for advancement.
• Note past advancement up the job ladder to increasingly better jobs. Look for self initiated self development actions such as going to school on ones own rather than at the suggestion of the company. Determine the amount of effort expended to reach a career goal; for example, getting a college degree under difficult circumstances.
• Note the number and frequency of past changes in career direction as an indication of current ambition.
• Don't be fooled by protestations of career ambition. Some people have been 'going to finish high school education' for the last 10 years or more.

Self-development orientation

• Initiates actions to further improve skills and performance proficiency. Active efforts towards self-development.

Technical / professional / self-development

• Active efforts towards self-development in current position or within scope of responsibility.

In the next section, the use to which these constructs are put to in the selection process, prior to compiling job interview questions for each and for particular jobs, profile analysis, is explained.

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