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.
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.