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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“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”
You mean “identify”, right? Isn’t that really what matters?
“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.”
But do you look better than Klinger?
When was this written. It’s totally a sellers market in the labor force right now. More jobs are open, and going unfilled. My company has made several offers to applicants who don’t even give you the courtesy of a ‘no’ answer. So who is ‘ghosting’ who?
it’s called one person politically actively gets into a job and then brings in others that agree with them. suddenly the hiring process has nothing to do with the job but instead political reliability.
“Yes, one. Out of dozens.”
We hired a new HR Director during the Pandemic, and she started running with changes, not embraced by the staff.
As we transitioned back to the office, 80% of the HR department left, as did 7% of our workforce — for employers offering remote work. We then needed employees sorely, but there was no HR staff to do the recruiting, interviewing, on-boarding, etc.
Now, months later and still down staff, we go to a 50% remote schedule...
Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.
Better than Klinger? You set a high bar that few of us can meet.
I knew one, a total sweetie. I think it was because she was in project administration before shifting into HR, so she knew what useful work was.
She got laid off last year. My personal opinion was that it was because she wasn't a Marxist.
What I learned over decades was to network with people. That way, when your resume arrives at a company, you have a friend there to vouch for you, and pull your resume out of the pile.
Both of you would be dismissed in my company.
This happened about 15 years ago.
Wouldn’t even consider it now.
I hope so. It was pretty cruel.
I’ve never had much interaction with HR personnel. But in a 30 year career as an IT consultant/contractor, I have found that Fortune 100 Companies are very astute in finding and hiring people who can deliver. That starts with their HR staff.
I’ve worked for several of them, but in the hiring/contracting process, I’ve never encountered an HR staff member. The good ones sort through and pass on the resumes to the business personnel, and they make the hiring decision.
My best recommendation is if you need to get approval from HR, you don’t want to work there.
I met two, out of the many places I worked.
One was an old fellow, about 50 years ago. Very proper, always wore a bow tie.
Always did his absolute best to help you.
The other is still helping retirees, and she is retired.
She was never promoted as she didn't have the right "paperwork", degree.
She knew more than any of the degreed idiots who were pushed up through the system, creating havoc wherever they went.
Nobody ever "ghosted" me. I was always hired on the spot.
Generally, I stand up, lean over the desk, glower at the interviewer, and say "I want this job so much you will have to call security to get me out."
Never fails!
I found technical project management was somewhat beyond my skills. My boss had me do a ‘stretch exercise’ to see if I had that skillset. I do not.
I do, however, have mad technical skills. I am also good at technical leadership from an architectural and lead-tech angle.
But I am NOT a Project Manager. That takes skills I don’t have.
It was a response to a gag he pulled on me. A very funny gag that requires payback.
His offering to resign was totally unexpected, but really funny.
I was a project manager for many years.
No degree.
Knew more about the job then anyone, in any company that I ever worked for.
Know what I found out?
The money is not worth it.
I retired as an engineer.
Still no degree.
I was always hired on the spot.
Only dealt with hr people when I was starting out as a youngster
Self identify as a top victim group member and sue their asses off.
“Ever met an HR person that actually proved useful?”
LOL! I resent that, as a former HR person. I was useful in secretly telling some employees they didn’t HAVE to pay SEIU dues, and they actually COULD get out of the union.
I would have had you both brought behind the building, forced you both to your knees, and put one pistol round through the bases of your skulls, KGB-execution style.
I wouldn't have even collected your bodies. Let the dogs have you.
You bastards, you.
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