Candidate Assessment: A Comprehensive Guide to Evaluation

Candidate Assessment: A Comprehensive Guide

Profile Study

• Assessment of CV presentation
• Analysis of cover letter
• Check for 5/6 essential profile factors: Age, degree, training, experience.
• Selection of suitable candidates
• Communication to rejected candidates

Preliminary Interview

Important for removing unsuitable candidates.

• Short
• Informs the candidate of basic workplace features: salary, contract type, position, specific location.

Assessment and Psychometric Tests

• Aims to measure personality, skills, and knowledge.
• Predicts future behavior in a specific job.

In-Depth Interview

• Introduce the candidate to the job and company.
• Evaluate the candidate's real potential for development.
• Evaluate opportunities for future development.
• Report on past behavior in similar situations.

Professional Practice

Propose a similar activity to the specific job position.

Final Report and Proposed Candidates

Internally, choose final candidates.

Final Interview and Selection

Special Tests

Group Dynamic

Pose a problem and observe participant behavior: interaction, introversion, extroversion, consistency.

• Competitive behavior may emerge due to observation.

In-Basket Exercise

Place the candidate in a scenario facing real company problems.

• Tray tables with different tasks.
• Verifies ability to make decisions, delegate, prioritize, and give orders.
• Introduce new variables as the exercise progresses.
• Identifies documents needed in the workplace.
• Each document must validate a skill.

Assessment Center

Simulation techniques study capabilities and behavior in real work situations. A group of participants must reach a joint solution to a problem.

• Problems are complex with no unique solution.
• Evaluators observe and record behaviors and skills.
• Evaluators analyze group dominance, cooperation, communication, motivation, participation, and conflict resolution.
• Identifies personalities: leader, withdrawn person.

Responsibilities & Duties

Resp. 1: Key occupations and works:

• Local companion guide
• Guide to cultural sites
• Tourist information officer
• Tourism consultant
• Agent Assistant Hostess for tourism development (land or maritime transportation)
• Billing charge at transport terminals
• Assistant at fairs, conferences, and conventions
• Event services manager

Work Standard:

• Forecast traveler needs during visits.
• Collaborative management of registration, issuance, and filing via computer programs.

Resp. 2: Services related to tourist information and address information entities.

Work Standard:

• Application of management software for inquiries, complaints, and claims.
• Collection and analysis of current and potential demand information service.

Resp. 3: Planning, organization, management, and control of events.

Work Standard:

• Participation in promotional events and programs, addressing tourist information requests.
• Consultation, updating, and introduction of information into a database of potential clients.

Relationships:

• Institute of Environmental Science and Technology
• International WildLife Rescuers
• Rescat amazonic
• Scientific Station
• Biolegs College of catalunya
• Catalan Society of Biology

Resp. 4: Planning and design of travel.

Work Standard:

• Information to companies, entities, and organizations related to defined tourism products/services.