When you are looking for new members of staff it can be hard to pinpoint exactly what qualities would make a good employee, putting together a job specification for the role can help you to figure these things out.
In the specification you will need to list key responsibilities and task that will need to be carried out as part of the role. You will also need to list desired and essential qualification that you would expect a suitable candidate to have.
Once you start to receive applications and CVs the first thing to look for is matches with the job role, i.e previous similar experience and relevant qualifications that are required.
Once you have narrowed down suitably qualified applicants you can then go through their personal statements and look for clues to their personality and work ethics, this can be quite challenging to get a good view of just from a personal statement alone so you would usually at this point offer an interview to the candidate.
At interview you should be able to get a good idea of what the person is like and often it’s best to go with your gut feeling, it’s important to find someone who will fit into the company and work hard so don’t go to easy on those interview questions.