title: Quality staff selection begins with designing a quality ad...making sure you are sending the marketplace the message you intended.
abstract: Check out the local newspapers for well and poorly written ads and any wages being listed. Analyze past applicants' resumes you have on file to see if you already have a qualified person on tap. Look within your current staff to see if there is a possibility of promoting from within. Design a plan for how you will inform/involve your staff. Does your staff know of any potential applicants. Set up the best method by which applicants will respond to the ad. Decide who will do initial culling of resumes and then make the first contact. Select the quality time within which to schedule the initial and follow-up interviews. Ensure all interview forms and techniques and legal considerations are current. Make a commitment not to compromise your standards or rush or sabotage the hiring process.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de St Georges
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D006801:Humans; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods*; D011215:Practice Management, Dental