I was chair of the Library Committee at the college I taught at. When a vacancy occurred for a librarian’s position I formed the search committee with three colleagues, a member of the library staff, and two students (seniors with good work ethics and good GPAs).
We advertised in the appropriate journals, library associations and so forth. We might get 100 applicants. All HR did was to place the applications in order in which received. The committee would review each application-50 might be immediately placed in the round file for lack of experience or degree. The remaining 50 were examined and the committe NOT HR would decide to inverview by phone or Zoom 8 to 10 candidates, and the committee would invite 3 or 4 to campus. We would rank the candidates and recommend one to the provost and president who made the final decision (they never rejected our top choice)
HR had no decision in the hiring process. They would schedule each candidate’s visit to campus and schedule meetings with our committee, students, faculty etc.
It would be nice if that described industrial HR departments. In order to get an appropriate job, you MUST know someone who can take your resume to the hiring project manager.
Lucky for me, I bailed out of corporate employment years ago. Even after retirement I can still get decent gigs as a hired gun. I also have a skill set that is not common: understand physics, design electronic instrumentation, write embedded software, write communications software when needed, and write software on the machine to which the instruments connect. I can document all of the work and take/edit the photographs that go into the documents. I can also make technical drawings and do 3D modeling. I have a really decent manual machine shop, so I can also prototype the instruments.
I also get to wear grubbies whenever I please.