Presently the Managers have been selected by the companies on the basis of their qualification and their work experience. Mostly the work experience pays a big role in selection process. Most of the companies adopt traditional method to select the Managers i.e. on the basis of their work experience specially Domain expertise.

I feel the current approach to select the Managers should be given a fresh look.

The Managers in the companies should be selected based on their managerial capability, leadership quality, interpersonal relationship, entrepreneur skills, problem solving capability, decision making, innovation and creativity, analytical approach etc. rather then based on their Domain expertise.

History has proved that the person from other stream with above qualities always delivery better result as he / she will put more interest in thier work and can generate new ideas as they have more knowledge about other industires aslo.

Also the selection process has to be changed from two / three formal round of interviews. In fact now the HR managers should use the latest techniques like:

1. Chatting over Messenger as preliminary discussion to know the background of the candidate. With this the persons ability to communicate and writing can also be checked.

2. Telephonic interview by HR Manager to know more about each other. Candidate aspiration for his / her carrier. This will also help in gauging the candidates verbal communication ability.

3. Telephonic interview by Technical personal. This is to gauge the technical ability of the person.

4. Final interview (face to face) and if selected then the salary negotiation etc.

The above process will definitely save the precious time of senior managers involved in the interview process also the right candidate can be selected for right job.

Praveen Varma, Mumbai
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