Case Study - Graduate Recruitment at Hartley McMaster
Stewart Williams, Managing Consultant, Hartley McMaster Ltd
This paper was presented at the OR Conference, Edinburgh, 1999
Background
Hartley McMaster is a small (but growing) Management Consultancy specialising in Operational Research and IT based services. At the time this case study was undertaken our plans for growth required the recruitment of a recent graduate to take up a junior role. Our recruitment process involved the selection of ten candidates to attend an assessment day (based on their CVs) and the short-listing of four candidates for further interview and evaluation.
This was the first time in the company's history that such an exercise had been undertaken, as all existing consultants had been well known to the company prior to their employment. As a small company with limited resources (both financial and in terms of the effort available for training a new consultant, etc.) we viewed the selection of the right consultant as crucial to the company's success.
This case study looks at how the two Directors of the company and I decided which of the four candidates to employ.
The AHP and Expert Choice
Unlike many consultancy organisations, we at Hartley McMaster try to adopt the practices we recommend to our clients. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice decision support tool were used during the recruitment campaign to help determine:
Which of the 50 or so applicants should be invited to attend our assessment day
Which of the attendees should be interviewed further
Which of the short-listed candidates should be employed.
The AHP is a multi-criteria method developed by Doctor Thomas Saaty of the University of Pittsburgh. It:
Models the decision situation as a hierarchy of objectives, criteria and alternatives
Allows pairwise comparison techniques to be applied to determine the relative importance of criteria and calculates weights from these qualitative judgements
Provides for assessment of the relative performance of the alternatives using similar pairwise comparisons against the bottom-level decision criteria
Synthesises the judgements made at each level of the hierarchy to calculate the priorities that show how the alternatives have been ranked.
The AHP is well supported by the Expert Choice software that originates from the company formed by Dr Saaty to provide decision support tools and techniques based upon the AHP.
Our use of the AHP and Expert Choice in determining which of the four short-listed candidates to employ is described below.
Determining the Assessment Criteria
Our first step was to build a hierarchy of assessment criteria. Brainstorming techniques were used by the Directors and I to generate a list of potential criteria for inclusion in the model. After further discussion and refinement we were left with a set we believed to be satisfactory and developed this further into the decision hierarchy.. The four candidates have been referred to as A, B, C and D.
Case Study - Graduate Recruitment at Hartley McMaster
Stewart Williams, Managing Consultant, Hartley McMaster Ltd
This paper was presented at the OR Conference, Edinburgh, 1999
Background
Hartley McMaster is a small (but growing) Management Consultancy specialising in Operational Research and IT based services. At the time this case study was undertaken our plans for growth required the recruitment of a recent graduate to take up a junior role. Our recruitment process involved the selection of ten candidates to attend an assessment day (based on their CVs) and the short-listing of four candidates for further interview and evaluation.
This was the first time in the company's history that such an exercise had been undertaken, as all existing consultants had been well known to the company prior to their employment. As a small company with limited resources (both financial and in terms of the effort available for training a new consultant, etc.) we viewed the selection of the right consultant as crucial to the company's success.
This case study looks at how the two Directors of the company and I decided which of the four candidates to employ.
The AHP and Expert Choice
Unlike many consultancy organisations, we at Hartley McMaster try to adopt the practices we recommend to our clients. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice decision support tool were used during the recruitment campaign to help determine:
Which of the 50 or so applicants should be invited to attend our assessment day
Which of the attendees should be interviewed further
Which of the short-listed candidates should be employed.
The AHP is a multi-criteria method developed by Doctor Thomas Saaty of the University of Pittsburgh. It:
Models the decision situation as a hierarchy of objectives, criteria and alternatives
Allows pairwise comparison techniques to be applied to determine the relative importance of criteria and calculates weights from these qualitative judgements
Provides for assessment of the relative performance of the alternatives using similar pairwise comparisons against the bottom-level decision criteria
Synthesises the judgements made at each level of the hierarchy to calculate the priorities that show how the alternatives have been ranked.
The AHP is well supported by the Expert Choice software that originates from the company formed by Dr Saaty to provide decision support tools and techniques based upon the AHP.
Our use of the AHP and Expert Choice in determining which of the four short-listed candidates to employ is described below.
Determining the Assessment Criteria
Our first step was to build a hierarchy of assessment criteria. Brainstorming techniques were used by the Directors and I to generate a list of potential criteria for inclusion in the model. After further discussion and refinement we were left with a set we believed to be satisfactory and developed this further into the decision hierarchy.. The four candidates have been referred to as A, B, C and D.
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