If you own a company or are a self-employed business owner, then there may come a time when you need to take on new members of staff. Finding staff that are not only qualified and have the relevant experience you require, but can also be relied upon can be daunting as unless you know them, you have to trust that what they have put on their CV is true. You may worry that you will end up employing someone that is not really suitable if you do not carry out the interview process correctly or do certain checks to get a true picture of the candidate.

Some employers set potential employees a task to complete during their interview process to see if they can manage some of the work that they may be expected to do. Although this is a good way to fish out the people who have lied, you may actually end up not hiring someone that is quite good, purely because their nerves got the better of them on the day.

Ideally you want to obtain references from previous employers to get a true picture of what the person is like as an employee.