1. What screening tools would you use? Don’t be generic … ensure your answer incorporates the
learnings you’ve had about the Indigenous Peoples.
Biographical information blank:
A pre-selection questionnaire that requires applicants to provide detailed, job-related information
concerning their personal background and life experiences.
This will help in filtering out candidates based their past personal and work experiences, as well as
interests, opinions, values, and attitudes. viz, filtering the candidate from indigenous community with
exposure in spiritual self-care who can help expand their reach to native individuals.
Questions around years of job experience, what kind of community related service experience would
help here.
Social Media:
Social media will help in gaining insight about the candidates’ volunteering activities or social activities.
This will help in assessing if the candidate will be able to help in reaching out to a wider network of
indigenous people because of their social network and also the kind of relevant self-care activities they
have done within their community.
6. What factors can be considered when making a selection decision?
Transferrable skills:
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Transferable, or “portable skills,” are all the skills that one takes with them from one job to
another. For instance, the ability to clearly communicate ideas to others, solve unexpected
problems, or work well in a team. These experiences will be major contributors to the candidate
scores
Attitude:
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Through discussion or Storytelling based on their experience, blogs, videos, other forms of
creative expression we will try to understand the attitude and motivation of the candidate to
identify if he is the right fit for the role to motivate others.
Assess candidates as individuals:
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As this job’s key performance indicator is to reach out to the indigenous people and educate
them about spiritual self-care, things like spelling and grammar, format of resume can be
considered as secondary factors when making a selection decision.