How Do You Qualify Candidates for Employment?

When hiring to fill a position in your company, how do you qualify your candidates? Assuming that you first check that the candidates have the required skills, education and experience you are looking for, what else do you look for to determine the perfect fit? In our company we look for someone who will fit our corporate culture. To us it is important that the individuals we work with share our work ethics, values, and positive attitude. We know that we spend more waking hours with our co-workers than with our family and we want to surround ourselves with happy people who are eager to assist our company in succeeding and who embrace teamwork.

So next time you are interviewing a candidate for a position, look for someone whose attitude about work matches the corporate culture in your company. Take the time to question them about how they would handle different situations so you can get a feel for their nature. If their answers make you uncomfortable, better to pass on them for another candidate.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.