Read the following passage and answer the question.

New Grow Ltd. is a company manufacturing electronic goods. Since the demand for the company's products increased in the market, the level of production had to be increased. This required recruitment of more people in production department.

Kapil, the HR manager, conducted an analysis which revealed the number and type of employees available in the department. Kapil used the internal sources first for recruiting a few employees. For the rest of the recruitment, he decided to use various suitable external sources like advertisement, placement agencies, campus recruitment and web publishing.

He followed a process for the purpose of selecting the best candidates and conducted a series of employment tests and interviews. Ten people were finally selected and after the medical examination their contract of employment was prepared. Since the new employees had to handle highly sophisticated machinery, the training was given to them away from the workplace by creating work environments in the separate laboratory.

The employees got trained well and with increased workforce, the company could achieve its target of high level of production.

"He followed a process for the purpose of selecting the best candidates." Arrange the following steps of that process in correct sequence."

A. Selection tests

B. Preliminary screening

C. Job offer

D. Medical examination

E. Employment interview

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

B, A, E, D, C

The correct answer is option 3- B, A, E, D, C.

Selection is the process of choosing from among the pool of the prospective job candidates developed at the stage of recruitment. The important steps in the process of selection are as follows:

(B) Preliminary Screening: Preliminary screening helps the manager eliminate unqualified or unfit job seekers based on the information supplied in the application forms. Preliminary interviews help reject misfits for reasons, which did not appear in the application forms.

(A) Selection Tests: An employment test is a mechanism (either a paper and pencil test or an exercise) that attempts to measure certain characteristics of individuals. These characteristics range from aptitudes, such as manual dexterity, to intelligence to personality.

(E) Employment Interview: Interview is a formal, in-depth conversation conducted to evaluate the applicant’s suitability for the job. The role of the interviewer is to seek information and that of the interviewee is to provide the same. Though, in present times, the interviewee also seeks information from interviewer.

(D) Medical Examination: After the selection decision and before the job offer is made, the candidate is required to undergo a medical fitness test. The job offer is given to the candidate being declared fit after the medical examination.

(C) Job Offer: The next step in the selection process is a job offer to those applicants who have passed all the previous hurdles. Job offer is made through a letter of appointment/confirm his acceptance. Such a letter generally contains a date by which the appointee must report on duty. The appointee must be given reasonable time for reporting.