The necessary skills should have been recognized through the course of job analysis, description and specification. It is significant then to discover methods of testing whether applicants meet these requirements. Testing the requirements out may consist of:
1) interviewing the applicants;
2) asking the applicants to get involved in simulated work situations;
3) asking the applicants to provide models of previous work;
4) getting the applicants to fill in character and intelligence tests;
5) giving the applicants real work imitations to test their abilities.