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For every company it’s very important to select the best candidate.

The main criteria for successful short listing is identifying which essential and desirable qualities matter most to you.

Before you start, you need to have two lists, the absolutely essential criteria and the desirable criteria.

Some of the qualities that you can check are as follows: Educational qualifications, Professional qualifications, Professional experience, Evidence of competencies.

It is necessary to exclude as many unsuitable candidates as quickly as possible.

To make the process easier you can use the following steps: Start with an idea about the number of candidates that you want to interview.

Conduct your shortlist in stages.

Set minimum criteria as stage 1 - Set your Educational, Professional qualifications and Experience minimums and produce a list of all the candidates who meet your minimum criteria first.

This will save a lot of time.

Exclude the inconsistent applications as stage 2 - For example, if you are looking to fill a permanent role, you can ignore candidates with vague employment history.

Last stage filtering - If there are still too many interview candidates in your shortlist after stages one and two, you can begin to filter them through the 'desirable' non essential qualities for the job.

These can be highly relevant training, experience, etc. Interview - Once you have shortlisted as much as possible the interview should be designed to affirm your shortlist criteria and also to look into personality fit.

Appearances do count.

But everyone who walks through the door looking for a job needs to be neat, clean, well dressed and reasonably well spoken.

Be flexible but stick to your criteria - It is impossible to expect that a candidate will satisfy all the requirements.

Try to make the decision based on the person who most closely matches the criteria you have specified for the job.

By following these points you will be able to shortlist applicants for your positions in a highly effective way, and keep the process as fair as possible.