Wow, I believe every word of that. A few years ago a friend in the design and engineering business told me that he saw a local news segment from the Detroit Auto Show where Lee Iacocca was being interviewed and he supposedly said that the biggest problem in the automotive industry is Human Resources, their policies and practices.
When I finally landed a job (April, ‘15) with a local Tier 1 supplier I started replying to recruiter e-mail by saying “I am currently out of the job market until further notice.” but that hasn’t deterred them from wanting me to update my profile, asking me straight out where I’m working, how much I’m being paid, job location, etc. They use a tactic called “applicant tracking” and I do my best to avoid getting caught up in it. I’ve always done better for myself, by myself and I think the HR ideology is the same as Big Government-liberalism in this country.
HR seems to have been taken over by lots of incompetents in lots of places. I’m sure there are exceptions.
But 99.5% are incapable of understanding my background and experience. So I never reach the people who do understand it.
As companies have shrunk, they have put a lot of unqualified people in charge of a lot of things they don’t understand.
But they act like they know it all. You can’t make them understand that which they have no grasp of. But they can’t figure out why they have a mess on their hands.