Posted on 07/16/2014 10:48:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
In 40 years, I never got a job after going through HR. Got a lot of them, though, from executives who needed someone to fix the mess the HR hire created. HR employees have the same incentive that middle managers have: the less competent the hires, the more you need and the bigger their empire grows.
I once worked for a company where I predicted there would come a time when the middle management had laid off their last competent employee, and it’d take a year before they noticed that the revenue had stopped coming in. Damn near happened too.
I once worked for a company that was the leader in its field primarily because of the skills of its engineering staff. They hired a new general manager who made exactly that same decision, then announced it in his first “get acquainted” meeting. 80 percent of the engineers walked within three weeks. The company never recovered, but the one down the road that his former engineers started did just fine.
How about the 15 year old daughter of the White House that got a job in Hollywood, violating the labor laws?
IF I were still an employer in Calif, I would NOT have been able to hire her on that fact alone.
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