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Originally Posted by Moz
lukohr,
If your correspondence with prospective employers is anything like your posts on this forum then I can understand why you are not getting past first base. I'm not trying to be unkind here, but your spelling is atrocious and you don't even start your sentences with capital letters!
These things are important to a lot of the people who will be assessing your applications. As for recruitment agencies, their role is to find the very best person for their client (the employer), and they use things like spelling as a filter.
I do think it is very rude not to acknowledge applications, providing the applications are relevant, but this failing is not the sole preserve of recruiters as there are plenty of employers who take the view that they should only reply to applicants who are shortlisted, and this of course is down to HR.
PatriciaS,
It is difficult to know why your friend is not having any luck with his applications, but bear in mind that it is a tough market right now and your friend is probably competing with local senior HR execs who have been retrenched through no fault of their own. These are people who have local knowledge and many years of experience, local referees and local networks. It would be a pretty risky move right now to employ someone with very little local experience in preference to some very good local candidates.
Is he perhaps getting a bad reference from his previous Australian employer? (is his local experience recent?)
By the way, if he expresses the same views as you, that HR in Australia is way behind the USA, that won't help his case!
Moz
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Moz,
The market is tough right now this is true without a doubt, but I also happen to know that I don't get too many candidates applying for jobs that have his qualifications or his experience also. His experience is current and his current employer values him as an employee but also realises that as far as skill and experience goes, he is above what he is doing at the moment.
Unfortunately Moz the truth may hurt and this is the case with
HR practice in this country - it is behind what is being practised in the US and those that keep up with global/international
HR know this is true. Although another thing is expressing this opinion to a potential employer - which of course he hasn't. This is one reason why
HR professionals in this country would find it almost impossible to get an
HR Manager's job in the US, experience or not, they want qualifications more than anything and an MBA in
HR Management means more than 4 years experience in some mediocre smallish employer who includes Payroll as part of its
HR department.
