As most HR professionals are aware people are not always entirely truthful in their CV and even in an interview can fake answers and hide their lack of experience or skills. It is important to get references checked but even then if someone is trying to get a staff member employed elsewhere then they will sing their praises.
There are simple things you can just to ensure you will be happy with your new recruit. Competency tests can be very useful to ensure certain levels of skills such as English speaking and writing and mathematics as theyre required for most jobs.
Psychometric tests can also highlight an applicants true nature especially if there personality type will have a real bearing on how someone performs an example being on a help desk where people can be quite annoyed having someone with an even shorter fuse working there would not help the company’s reputation for being helpful and polite.
In any company ensure the staff already within the company feel their careers can progress whilst employed at the same firm, and stretching your staff to feel they are able to be trained and are appreciated can make a huge difference to morale and therefore productivity. So advancing someone from within can sometimes be the best thing for a company and training can sometimes be cheaper than the recruitment process and induction.
In todays job market having a basic outline of your skills and experience will help you get shortlisted for jobs as people do not always have time to trawl through masses of information, so keep things simple.
Marie is a passionate recruitment consultant who loves to help many jobless and unemployed people with careers advice. Marie works for  www.RecruitmentRevolution.com who specialize in fixed price recruitment in the UK.
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