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As an experiment, a charity decides to use the Simple Multi-attribute Rating Technique (SMART) to determine a shortlist from the seven applicants who have applied for the post of Regional Officer for the Western region. The main criteria which will be used to compare candidates are: • the salary they would expect (SALARY) (they have stated this on the application form), • their experience of charity work (CHARITY EXP), • their managerial experience (MANAGEMENT EXP), their educational qualifications (EDUCATION), their apparent commitment to the charity's work (COMMITMENT) (as gleaned from the application form) and • the quality of the ideas they put forward on the form (IDEAS). The personnel manager ranked all the criteria, except salary, in order of importance and then assigned weights as follows: 1. COMMITMENT 100 2. MANAGEMENT EXP70 3. IDEAS 65 4. CHARITY EXP 55 5. EDUCATION 10 Note that, on the basis of the application form, all of the candidates appeared to be equally committed to the charity.
The candidate with the least management experience has only been working in management for two years, while the most experienced candidate has 10 years' experience. If the personnel manager reckons that the charity would be prepared to pay $8000 for the eight years' extra management experience, all else remaining equal, determine which candidate she should recommend for the appointment prior to the interview. A Candidate D B Candidate A Candidate C D Candidate B E Candidate F F Candidate G G Candidate E