The power to hire should be in the hands of the Managers, not HR.
I’m in engineering, and HR are always the least intelligent and subject knowledge educated in every firm.
The idea that some fat black chick who hasn’t gone beyond College Algebra can tell a PE of 20 years who to hire is insane.
The only way engineering firms can make diversity quotas is to put black females in almost all non technical positions.
We had a construction company & most workers had to lift heavy equipment. One day a fat black chick showed up from the City of Seattle and demanded to know if we had enough women in the field crew. I took her to the shop and told her to pick up one of our pieces of equipment. Her eyes about popped out “you expect ME to pick up THAT?” and that was the last I heard from her.
But then again, engineers are total failures at arranging all those posters with motivational slogans in the employee break room....... /S
When I interview and hire, I completely ignore anything related to education on a resume.
EEGator, your comment was spot on. The HR folks have no idea of what constitutes a great engineer. Anecdotally, HR is a drain on productivity and works at cross purposes to management. They depend on credentials, because they have no other way to objectively measure potential. In the real world, everyone knows who the really talented folks are. Pareto’s principle: 20% do 80% of the work. Those 20% are well known within the actual work community.
When vancanies occur in faculty positions at the colleges I taught at, a search committee consisting of faculty members mostly from the department that the vancies occurred in is formed. In some cases a student will be appointed to the committe as well as a faculty member from another department.
The committee writes the vancancy notice subject to approval from HR. Applications are collected by the HR department and sent on to the search committee. HR will schedule interviews for the finalists selected by the committee. HR people do not have any input into the person hired.
A question: in the corporate world do HR officials decide who is hired for line positions and not the managers or senior executives?
I applied for a job where the idiots in HR required 10 years of experience with software that hadn’t even been in existence for more than 5. Needless to say I didn’t get an interview when I called them out on that.