With today’s emphasis on leaner workplace practices, each employee plays a critical role and each new hire presents an opportunity to increase productivity. An organisation’s success or failure will often rely on the recruitment and selection and, most importantly, retention of talent of the highest calibre.

The first step of this process often involves sorting through a range of candidates that you have available to you; that is, before you get to the selection stage there is frequently the need to Screen applicants on suitability. Screening is more often a requirement for organisations who are fortunate enough to have a large number of individuals applying for any one role.

Prior to investigating more thoroughly into each individual candidate, organisations who choose to implement a screening process are in the position to be able to do a first round “sort” before moving a smaller number of candidates through to a second round (which would be the SELECT stage and may include more psychometric testing, interviews, assessment centres etc).