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Employee recruitment is, to the certain extent, an exchange of information. Probation is a selection method used to verify a candidate's skills. Probation is used as a recruitment tool after the application of other methods - i.e. the job interview. This paper describes probation as a method of verification of employee skills for positions such as salesperson and cashier in the divisions of a trading company. Research results show that this method is properly conducted in the investigated company, but both the company and employees made certain mistakes