The best way to hire the right people is to start by assessing your own recruitment process. If you do some research you will be quite startled by what prospective candidates think of your organization.

Hiring the wrong person can lead to heavy costs for the company in terms of travel costs, interview time, administrative effort and other costs. Therefore, the best time to fix recruitment mistakes is during the selection process. Despite being aware of these facts, very few companies actually take the time to evaluate their selection process.

On many occasions, companies lose promising candidates early in the selection process due to a reason that need not have arisen at all. In most such cases the company does not even realize what has happened so there is no question of fixing the process either.

Evaluating your selection process will provide you with opportunities to improve on it, your hiring managers will be more productive since they know their performance is being audited and you will be able to attract better talent.

While evaluating, check how quickly your hiring managers follow up post interviews, send out thank you letters to candidates, confirm or reject a candidate.

You should assess if your recruiters have the necessary skills to be able to hire effectively. Your evaluation should cover whether your interviewers are prepared before an interview, have the goals for the interview been set and whether they are known to all the interviewers and has the documentation been organized properly.

The place where a prospective candidate is interviewed should be clean and professional. The candidate should feel as if they are being interviewed for an organization that is successful and dynamic. Every candidate should feel positive vibes from all your interviewers. The interviewers should make the candidate feel comfortable and wanted.

All documents that are required before and after an interview should be organized and complete. While evaluating the selection process you should check if the candidate receives any forms, documents etc on time.

During your evaluation of the selection process you need to ascertain whether someone has been assigned the responsibility of communicating the interview schedule and interviewer role to the interviewers. This same person should also be responsible for getting in touch with the candidates within a reasonable time of the interview and for providing feedback.

Finally, to get a correct evaluation of your selection process, once candidates have been hired, ask them for their feedback on the interview process. Use all of these inputs from your evaluation to make your selection process effective in hiring the right people.