You need to replace Charles.

(a) Referring back to Chapter 7 and to Skill III in the previous chapter, how would you rate, from 1 to 7, the following in their importance in identifying the most appropriate candidate – and why?

Experience Qualifications Aptitude testing Personality testing Trainability testing General intelligence testing Competencies

(b) Assume you have fifty applications, of which you decide twenty are worth interviewing.

What statistical analysis, if any, would you use at any further stage in the selection process?

(c) Who should interview the candidates, and how (e.g. you, Henry and Susan individually;

you and a board member together; you, Henry, Susan and a board member together; or some other arrangement)?

(d) In the light of your answer to

(a) above, what other means of assessment would you use when the candidates come for interview, and why?