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Is there any hope? |
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Here' the first part |
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07/18/2002 |
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Are you sure Workforce was the site. I searched the site and was unable to find the article. I did find an article on the site that discussed anti-HR postings by employees on Vault's individual company boards. It was written in 1999 when my company appeared to be on the verege of becoming successful and I was definitely not looking for a job and had never even heard of vault.com
Was it from the print version?Many magazines do no tpost all of their print content on their websites.
If it was on the site, can you post the specific link to the article. |
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up to the part I posted above....
Why Job Applicants Hate HR
Job seekers are fed up with arrogance, disrespect, and ineffectiveness. And so they're doing everything they can to avoid the "black hole" of HR.
By Shari Caudron
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raig Goudy is a software developer in Denver who, like many other IT professionals, was recently laid off. He??s 45, articulate, and passionate about his work, and he has over 20 years of broad business experience that includes stints in finance, marketing, and public relations. You??d think that finding a job would be a snap for someone with his experience and enthusiasm, right? It probably would be if he could get HR professionals to listen to him. But during a three-week period in April, Goudy made five cold calls a day to HR people in companies he knows are hiring. "I call them not only to give them a sense of who I am and what my experience is, but also to find out the best way to approach their company from an employment perspective."
To date, he??s made about 80 calls, and well over half the HR people he talked to seemed desperate to get off the phone, and only two took the time to meet with him in person. "I??m amazed at how short they can be," he explains. "It??s almost as if a job-seeker like myself is a detriment to what they are trying to accomplish."
How times have changed. Two years ago, HR professionals were on their knees like beggars at the Vatican, tugging at the pant legs of any qualified job candidates. With unemployment at record lows, companies were so humbled by the need for workers that they were willing to do whatever it took to entice worthy applicants. Now that the labor market has opened up, the power has shifted, and HR is acting like an arrogant prince stepping around the unwashed masses. Job-seekers are a burden, the flood of r??sum??s a distraction, and cold calls from candidates are viewed with as much eagerness as a telemarketer at dinnertime -- at least, that??s the perspective of today??s job-seekers.
"Most HR people know the economy is bad and there are lots of people looking," says Lisa Crispin, the newly hired quality assurance manager at KBkids.com. "Because of this, they feel it??s okay to jerk people around."
This isn??t as much of an overstatement as it may sound. Talk to job-seekers today -- especially in heavily downsized industries such as high-tech and telecommunications -- and you??ll discover they are so fed up with the perceived arrogance, disrespect, and ineffectiveness of HR that they are doing everything they can to avoid the function altogether. As Bill Stegen, an ERP manager who lost his job a year ago, explains: "If you want to get work, the trick is getting around HR."
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