This video forms part of a series about recruiting and selecting people. Watch this video and you’ll understand how to be precise about who’s needed in each job and how to define the person-specification in terms that can be tested for.

• Illustrating how to define people in terms that can be assessed and tested during selection;
• Describing what’s meant by general mental ability, personality and person-environment fit;
• Telling how the various characteristics impact on job performance;
• Showing how job descriptions can be analysed to give the necessary competencies and behaviours; and
• Discussing how managers typically make decisions during selection and how this should be done.