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Need tips for avoiding HR |
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Sorry, R2 |
| Date Posted: |
02/12/2002 |
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People avoid HR because people like yourself that inhabit the department are on power trips and are clueless what most people in your company other than support staff do. Therefore you screen out anyone with a non-cookie cutter background because you don't know how to do otherwise. No matter how much experience you have with and how well you have performed the primary tasks associated with a posiiton,and how much you've higlighted this in your cover letter and on your resume, if you didn't work for a larger or more prestigous competitor with the same title or a half step below regardless of actual responsibility, your resume gets tossed. You pinheads love MBAs because they are a credential,regardless if they took any relevant course work.
And because you don't understand what all but administrative staff does, you ask the hiring manager what software is used. So if the hiring manager says word processing, spread sheets, data base and presentation software is used on the job a vp candidate who doesn't waste precious resume space rudimentry software skills is to assumed not having the skills by and not suitable for an upper level job that would use these skills peripherally at best. |
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I have to side with emptyhead on this one -- this is what I've been saying all along. Anyone who tries an unusual way to get hired, once seen as being creative, is now seen as a potential problem, to be avoided at all costs.
And yes, the MBA, or any other degree, is a credential, as are a high GPA and a "top" school. The best workers are not necessarily those with these credentials, but employers see these credentials as a safer and fairer way to make hiring decisions -- which is not the doing of HR at all, but the regs that emptyhead calls wonderful.
When I wanted to hire a woman who lacked the required degrees, I did it despite objections from HR -- and any competent manager can do the same. Hope you find a competent manager to work for, sometime soon. It may help to take one line on your resume to list those elementary software skills -- I have them on mine, just in case I ever want to work again.
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