Employee Selection Services

Whether its applicant tracking, selecting the right employee for the job or structured interviewing, Berkshire Associates can provide customized consulting to meet your organization's needs. Below is a description of our most requested services, however; we can customize our consulting support based on your company's current requirements.

Applicant Tracking:
Our services include:

• Assistance developing and implementing an Applicant Definition
• Development of a Selection Process

Employee Selection:
In this tight labor market, now is the time to review your hiring process and verify that your organization is making the best use of its resources. We can help increase selection success for current, critical or new positions. For example, the unique contributions women can make to a male-dominated profession.

Our services include:

• Assistance with Development of Position Descriptions and Job Specifications
• Development of Job Postings
• Evaluating Current Selection Systems (promotion, hire, reduction of force, etc.) and their impact on Targeted Groups
• Development of panels of interviews with diverse perspectives and experience

Structured Interviewing:Traditional interviews tend to be unstructured and largely unplanned conversations that may not focus on job related factors and behaviors. Unfortunately, first impressions, bias, use of inappropriate or illegal questions and lack of structure can turn any employment process into a nightmare. Today, employment selection is one of the most targeted areas for discrimination and employers using unstructured and poorly documented systems find it difficult, if not impossible, to prevail against class action complaints or OFCCP audit review, especially when statistical evidence of adverse impact exists by race, ethnicity or gender. Research shows that interviews can be an effective hiring tool if they are used for conducting performance based hiring.

Our services include:

• Determining the types of interviewing questions for applicants
• Analyzing job requirements
• Development and/or Acquisition of Structured Interviews and other Selection Tools
• Conducting Validation Studies
• Use of Written job descriptions to determine the qualifications most appropriately measured in an interview

Berkshire Associates, Inc., 8930 Route 108, Suite D, Columbia, MD 21045. Tel: 410-995-1195; Fax: 410-995-1198.