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Should the hiring process be changed? |
| Message Name: |
Re: Elimination of HR |
| Date Posted: |
11/15/2002 |
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In my more than 30 years as a professional I have consistently found the HR department to be detrimental to progress on many avenues. They are not responsive; always seem to be away for training (but for God knows what); look to have other people do work for them; are clearly bottlenecks in the recruiting process; don't work hard enough to develop the best benefits and training packages for steaff, etc. While this will likely come off as an unprofessional remark my personal observation is that when a person reaches their ultimate level of incompetency, thwey are then ready to become an HR senior execuitve.
As an IT professional who has reached the CIO level reporting to the CEO, I have a very focused dosenchantment with HR people who are clearly ineffective at recruiting and retaining IT personnel. Again they lack responsiveness, ca;'t effectively interpret IT resumes they receive, and ofen turn off both the candidates and internal management by looking to find reasons why NOT to hire people, as opposed to finding reasons TO hire them.
Bottom line if I ran a company is that I would outsource the HR function to a group that knows what it is doing. Having worked in Fortune 500 companies for over 30 years now, I've yet to see an HR department that I perceived to be effective; so maybe it's time to knock the present structure down and create one that will do what is was meant to do for so long. |
| Message: |
I don't consider it unprofessional to call a spade and spade. In fact, I found your response both accurate and highly refreshing in its frankness. (I'm now regretting not doing the same in my initial response to my orig. thread) Your "brutal honesty" is something the corp/IT world could use a lot more of, frankly.
Have any openings? You sound like the type of boss I thought was extinct. :)
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