As has been the case with retailers, the Internet has reduced much of HR to strict price-shopping.
Searches and screens are conducted strictly on salary numbers by many.
HR departments have long been government-like bureaucratic puddles of inefficiency but their refusal to go beyond the numbers renders them even less useful.
The purpose of HR is to protect the company. Hiring managers tend to ask the wrong questions and get the company sued. They also tend not to care about hiring quotas which exist at most big companies.
Large companies are now using these online HR portals mainly to comply with an EEOC policy called OFCCP.
This forces them to compile long lists of candidates and hires indexed by race. For example, for “Sales Associate” they need to tell the government that 89 people applied, 45 Caucasian, 15 Black, 9 Hispanic, etc. Then they have to show that they interviewed enough candidates from each protected group. Then they need to say they hired Jane Doe, a Caucasian female, and justify the reasons they hired her and not the others.
And the only way they can compile race data is to pressure you to self-identify on the website.
As has been the case with retailers, the Internet has reduced much of HR to strict price-shopping.
Searches and screens are conducted strictly on salary numbers by many.
HR departments have long been government-like bureaucratic puddles of inefficiency but their refusal to go beyond the numbers renders them even less useful.
I call BS.....show me one website that allows me to search for candidates based off their salaries.