Posted on 03/29/2022 4:37:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
We asked HR managers about the best ways to catch their attention – and to keep it.
It’s anxiety on steroids when you enthusiastically invest in your application for your dream job and keep waiting to hear back from the hiring manager. If you don’t get an answer for a few days or weeks, you can say hello to that familiar spate of self-questioning coupled with debilitating attacks on your self-esteem. It’s anything but healthy and certainly not productive.
According to a survey done by job aggregation site Indeed, employers have been ghosting their candidates more after the pandemic struck. Nearly 77 percent of job seekers reported that they have been ghosted at various stages of the recruitment process.
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Ever met an HR person that actually proved useful?
Me neither.
There was an infographic posted early about Disney. Vice is owned by them. SO, just throw this away. Its useless and pointless.
Have you ever wondered where people with gender studies degrees find employment? HR.
You have to be a totally woke self important d’bag to qualify as a Human Resources manager.
“Ever met an HR person that actually proved useful?”
A co-worker used to sleep with ours, so there’s that.
I’ve always referred to it as inhumane resources.
Ghosting has been the common practice for over 20 years. Nothing new. Nothing respectable about it, but it is not a recent thing.
In the higher levels of US corporations we jr suite executives have to recruit and keep HR on track to fill technical management positions in a timely manner. The security firms are at 4+ weeks for their checks, we have dropped the drug tests, dropped the reference requirements. The government agencies, the state of IL, to hire in the field went as high as 36 weeks to get a candidate with 2 prior jobs in the past 3 decades through. The only reason the candidate was available is because we used a outside contractor firm to keep him paid until the FTE hire date was hit.
My Finance job takes 12+ weeks from first interview to issuing a door entry badge and a laptop. Having complete access credentials across all the systems is a 24 week affair.
A good 60% of accepted candidates have already started working someplace else at week 6. At week 12 we most likely are hiring a good number of remote employees we suspect that are contractors in one time zone and full time employees in another time zone.
Our attention to detail is shown in the quality of the new hires work. Overall the private system is looking like 1973 britian government, lots of snooty administrators and few people showing up for the work that must get done.
“Ever met an HR person that actually proved useful?”
Yes, one. Out of dozens.
HR is like teaches.... those who cant make it in a real role.
Teachers
HR Managers
Lawyers
Therapists
Advice Columnists
Journalists
I set up one HR critter on a recorded Teams call to launch a dumpster fire in corporate. I used her as a tool.
I dont know what kind of work you were involved in so maybe this has no bearing on the conversation but I do know that some articles giving advice to job seekers actually suggest that. Well, not total slobs but, they tell you that unless you are going in for a management/white collar job that you shouldnt dress well because the person doing the hiring will assume that you are a dainty and not willing to actually do any real work.
Nowadays you have to tell an HR person that you’re anything but white, you’re young, you’re woke and you’re gay....that’ll get you a job at lightspeed
I just say I’m trans and threaten to sue. Works every time. And I don’t look half bad in pink, as it happens.
HR. The government bureaucrats of the private sector.
BTW if you are ignored by HR you do not want to work for that company.
And you do not want to "catch and keep" HR's attention.
Not unless you LIKE being sexually harassed.
Social media profile. Yuck.
The HR Director at a former employer actually participated in a practical joke I set up on a colleague.
Another time, I got called old timer by someone. She actually sent him an email saying he was implicated in a harassment complaint.
He took it so seriously that he gave her his resignation before we burst out laughing.
Other than her, I remain at arms length from HR.
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