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Selecting a professional superintendent to manage your golf course investment
Hiring checklist for employers
GCSAA has developed the following checklist and materials contained in the guide to assist employers. The checklist outlines the process and steps involved in conducting a search for a professional golf course superintendent.
- Develop or update the position description.
- Develop or update the salary range for the position and benefits package to be offered. Contact GCSAA’s Career Services department for information on how to obtain relevant compensation and benefits information in your area.
- Identify recruitment methods and establish an advertising budget.
- Write and submit the employment ad using key duties from the position description.
- Review résumés as they arrive and narrow the pool to the fifteen or twenty candidates who you think best match the needs and qualifications for your organization.
- Decide who will conduct the interviews and route copies of résumés to each interviewer. Set appointments to include all interviewers and the interviewee.
- Notify those individuals not selected for an interview.
- Decide where the interview will be held and develop questions to
be asked. Note: telephone interviews may be appropriate for the first
round of interviews. Use these sample interview questions as a guideline.
Be sure to have each interviewee complete an employment application.
- Conduct all interviews within a set period of time, if possible, so your interview team can compare the qualifications of all candidates. Be sure to write good notes during each interview to help you remember the candidate later.
- Invite the top five candidates for a second interview. An on-site interview is recommended for the second interview. This should include the following: site visit of your course, discussions with key people at your facility, formal interview with the selection committee/ management.
- Conduct reference checks on selected interviewees.
- Once you have made a decision on whom to hire, extend an offer to
your top candidate. A sample offer letter can help you get started.
It is good practice to have more than one top candidate in mind, in
case your first choice for the position declines your offer. If necessary,
make the offer to a second candidate.
- Once an offer has been accepted, set a time for the candidate to complete the necessary paperwork associated with a new hire before his or her start date.
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