HR #1. Shocker. In my experience over 20 years at 4 different companies I find all HR people, regardless of degree, completely useless.
I’ll second that.
Our current company renamed the VP of HR to “Chief People’s Officer”...just PC speak for head chopper.
“Shocker. In my experience over 20 years at 4 different companies I find all HR people, regardless of degree, completely useless.”
Yeah, but you don’t understand the true value of HR people to the company, namely their sole job is to ward off lawsuits, and in point of fact, despite the moderately popular perception that HR people are there to “help” the employees, in reality HR people are the corporate bulwarks erected to inculcate management against contact with employees, and HR is the REAL enemy of all corporate employees everywhere. HR is essentially management’s anti-employee shield.
The most valuable HR employees are black because they can fire useless afirmative-action troublemakers with much less blow-back than a white HR employee can.
Oh yeah? You think it's easy for these angry women to sit in their cubicles dreaming up reasons to reject experienced white men for employment while searching for perfect Trans-Gendered Lesbian/Gay Asian, African-American Felon Native American HB1 candidates with Anger Management Certification?
Oh No, HR "people" are the very backbone of corporate America, the Civil service, and Academia!! In fact, Mr. Wyatt, while your qualifications and work history are quite impressive, we are unable to offer you employment at this time.
Model HR Candidates for anything: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (or II), or Michelle Robinson Obama.
HR bunnies are for the most part useless. There are a few HR rockstars out there though, but most of them suck and do a poor job finding and obtaining talent.
I have to give you an exception. My sister was HR chief for a large state university hospital, and she was valuable to her employer because she was skilled at heading off lawsuits.