[ale] Since we're on the subject of jobs lately

[Jeff Lightner]

HR folks don't "decide" but they do "screen". 

You'd be amazed at some of the pukes I've been presented after being
"screened" by HR.  It always made me wonder who they turned away.

In my former life as a Controller HR once sent me a guy who had spent
the last 17 years on the assembly line at the Hapeville Ford plant to
interview for an accounting clerk position that had "Accounting
Experience Required" as one of the prereqs.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:01 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Since we're on the subject of jobs lately

JK wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
>   
>> 2008/7/16 Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com>:
>>     
>>> I'd argue that the company is trying to sell itself to you - and
that if you
>>>
>>>       
>> I'd consider that there are a great many people involved in the
hiring
>> process that are not
>> judging your competence by how you answer questions - the HR people,
>> the managers,
>> the directors, etc.  They are not going to ask you to solve a
problem,
>> they are going to
>> look at your appearance, manners, and such.  And many of *those*
>> people are not the
>> "best and brightest" so they *do* consider attire in the equation.
>>     
>
>
> And if those are the people making the hiring decisions, you
> probably don't want to work there.
>   

I have to agree with that last statement, but I've been on both sides of

the fence and I've yet to find a HR puke that had any input into the 
decision whatsoever.   I hope I don't offend anyone but HR folks like to

say they are there to help people, but they are really a tool of 
management and they will most likely only help you out the door. 

Jim.
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