Selecting a Student Rep: Assessment & Selection

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Job Analysis A position for a student representative needed to be filled and as such we were asked to create and perform an assessment and selection process to appoint a person to that role. The initial stage in this process was job analysis, a fundamental requirement to divide the job in to its principal activities and requirements. The purpose was to identify the essential knowledge, skills, abilities (Harvey, 1991), responsibilities, and personal attributes associated with the role to be able to perform successfully. This would then permit valid selection methods to be devised and employed in the selection process (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998). As the resources were limited we were provided with a preliminary list of duties and responsibilities for the specified role. From this we were able to consult the previous year’s student representative to gain invaluable insight in to the role acquiring more detailed information about the most important elements of the role and what they believed the characteristics were that made a good student representative. Meeting with job experts allowed “job-related samples of applicant behaviour” (Dipboye & Gaugler, 1993) to be gathered that further enhanced the job analysis process. A complete job description (Appendix A) was then created that focused on the tasks involved in the role rather than the behaviour elements required to be able to perform the specified job successfully. Once the job description was fully defined, a person specification (Appendix B) was devised that demonstrated the necessary attributes and characteristics a person would need to be successful in this job role. It was important to be specific here when outlining the ideal candidate as a vague person specification would lead to unsuitable candidates applying for the job (Wilkinson & Van Zwanenberg, 1994). As the assessment and selection

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