While
recruiting a new employee, the employer should pay more attention to their
personal qualities, rather than qualifications and experience. To what extent
do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion and include relevant examples.
With maximizing outputs from workforce being
prioritized, many human resource experts have started proposing focusing
on personal attitude of new personnel,
instead of resorting to the conventional method of assessing the abilities of
workers, based on academic performance and professional exposure. I partially agree
with this new way of screening the abilities and selecting workers.
Despite many lobbying for recent changes,
relying on conventional methods seem to be more viable in many occupations,
where education is considered to be a critical component of ability of
personnel to carry out work in their respective realms: academic feats help
workers acquaint themselves with the dynamics of the work they are supposed to do. Even if
they are novices, employers do not need to train them from the very basic level.
Moreover, being well-entrenched with
experience in the domain, a worker has been functioning, matters a lot, when it
comes to addressing and resolving issues specific to a trade. Many businesses perceive
appointing people bereft of any practical exposure as a recipe to disaster.
This can hamper not only the efficiency but also expose operations to failure;
thus threatening the very existence of an organization.
However, there are certain people who strongly
advocate espousing new methods of selecting members of workforce. Many a times,
it has been observed that being apt in academics and well-versed with trade
exposure fails to guarantee expected outcomes. Workers need to have a optimistic
attitude not only towards their own work, and ability to cope up with the
pressures within the ambit of the organizational framework, but also coordinate
efficiently with their colleagues.
Hence, it is easy to arrive at a conclusion
that an efficient workforce needs to be adequately accomplished in academics
and experience, as well as having appropriate soft skills.