I have a $100k job posted that I got 10 resumes for. I had to keep it open for 3 months to get 10 resumes. Another $75k job was posted by my org, got 3 resumes. I’ve been hiring people for 15+ years and I normally get 20-50 applicants for jobs at various levels (very specialized field). Something is wrong.
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Are you managing the hiring yourself or are you sending it through HR?
HR has always been a nuisance but in the last five years or so I've noticed they've taken on more responsibility and become extremely destructive to the hiring process and employee retention. They distort job requirements, focus on irrelevance, treat candidates disrespectfully, run them through the ringer with paperwork & onboarding bullshit, etc.
My girlfriend is in the process of being run off by HR from a company that is desperate to hire people. She's already contracting with the company and they want to hire her directly. Should be simple, right? Well let's see how bad HR can fuck it up:
She is required to do all the same paperwork again.
She is required to take a drug test again.
She is required to list out her precise work history from 7+ years back and they insult her if anything doesn't match their tracking system.
And yeah, this is a 6 figure job too... She's getting calls every day so any time she wants to hop to something slightly less frustrating she can do it.
I don't know why the candidate pool is small, but the reasons companies are having problems tapping what is there are abundant. HR is a profession for bitter spouse-shopping fuckups and if you let them interfere with your hiring process you will get out-maneuvered by more personable companies.
Can’t say HR is helping the situation. They literally let an admin negotiate salary and benefits.
Ask to see the candidates they're turning down and the details of any job postings or recruiter agreements . They may be fucking up some basic keyword matching, throwing people out for arbitrary things, or scaring candidates off with pronouns, masking, or other woke shit.
I won't bore you with the details but I've watched this happen as both a candidate and hiring manager and it's horrifying. Some of your problems may be in-house.
HR is a tool of the cabal same as a doctor or legislator. They implement the agenda with total precision and indifference.
Having done minor HR tasks, having had hiring manager responsibilities in the past, I can attest to this first hand.
Also, the little hiring kiosks and online only applications have gotten totally out of hand. White collar jobs are a labyrinth of superfluous forms, and blue collar jobs are needlessly convoluted.
You don't need fancy HR and hiring software if your application process is simple and on-boarding process is straight forward. Just saying it's one more needless complexity that tbh, I'm not gonna go through.
If someone wants my talent, I'm not gonna play monkey boy and dance for you when we both know I'm a good fit and can do the job. IMO, a LOT of people feel the same way. Job mobility has had the brakes on for some time.
https://avenica.com/insights/employers-demand-too-much-and-it-makes-hiring-harder-with-gb/
HR's can be a disaster for companies in my experience. They are the gatekeepers of the company. If they suck at their job, then the company will hire the worst kind of people. The remaining good ones will get driven off.
If a company wants to flourish they have to make sure they have competent people in HR. The kind who have a good eye for people.
Bad HR = Bad company (eventually)
Good HR = Good company.
They are the ones who invite someone in.
If the guard at the door let's in thugs, criminals, and thieves, it won't be long before you'll find your home ransacked.
Probably a friend of theirs.
HR is not for hiring.
You need your mid level management to do that.
Great rant! I concur. I see the HR department as the corporate equivalent of the Eff Bee Eye - "woke" and corrupt as hell. My employer is based in SF, CA and they are c-r-a-z-y woke!
The second that the Roe v Wade decision was reverted back to the states, our HR sent out a company-wide email telling me to "take time off if they need to" in order to 'cope'! But THEN, they followed up with another company-wide email telling everyone that they'll PAY for people to go out-of-state to get abortions PLUS give them 2 paid weeks off AND that they'll even pay to RELOCATE them to a state that doesn't have restrictions on abortions!!!! I shit you not!
My employer has a freaking DEPARTMENT for woke-ism called something like "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" and they push their agenda on every company call. And of course, they had mandatory training on all this shit for new hires. God, it makes me sick to my stomach! I'm looking elsewhere, but nothing I've found so far re: job openings in my field pays anywhere near what I'm making and I haven't even been at this company for 3 months yet. :-(
How did you get around their jab requirement?
Shockingly, this libby loon company didn't have a jab mandate.... which was practically my first question when I started interviewing with them. I couldn't believe it when they said they didn't have a jab requirement. It was one of the VERY FEW companies I interviewed with that didn't demand that as a condition of hire.