13th December
2010
I think this illustrates what I’ve been saying about networking. And I don’t mean to imply that HR takes a long time with what they do. I mean to imply that nine out of ten times the candidate’s resume will quickly end up in the recycling bin and he will be sitting by the phone indefinitely.
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This is so true
Very true. I used to date an HR girl in the late 90s, and she had to hire lots of people for Y2K readiness. She would bring dozens of resumes every night and quickly scan through them and put them on neat little “Web”, “Network”, “CICS/IMS”, “C/C++”, “Oracle DBA”, etc… piles.
She had no idea what these meant, she just had a list of buzzwords to look for.
Thank you.
You’ve exactly summarized my experience as a hiring manager, and saved me from having the tell the same story over and over of how I’d never get any resumes from HR.
This is exactly why HR is the surest waste of resources a company can have. If you want good hires, you have the people that will be working with them go out and find them. Otherwise, you’re just filling your payroll, acting like employees are some commodity.
And if you’re looking to get hired, and you go to some job fair and talk to HR reps, don’t bother waiting by the phone.
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