This parasitic bureaucratic force leeches capital and innovation out of companies, while camouflaging itself in audits and mission statements. It is run by airport bookshop intellects spouting psychobabble.
Wow, that's a really stinging attack. I wonder if he used to write speeches for Paul Keating?
Despite the fact that this guy clearly has a big chip on his shoulder, I do think he has a few points. While I think it's rather unfair to tar the whole
HR profession with the same brush based upon a few bad experiences, there are undoubtedly
HR people out there who behave the way he describes.
Over a six-month period I wrote 20 job applications and got three interviews. Many of my applications were screened out by Optical Character Recognition scanning technology that HR uses to hunt for key words.
This defeats the purpose of having humans working in recruitment departments. It takes the Human out of HR.
I don't know how true accusation is about using OCR, but I agree that many
HR departments try to over automate the recruitment process and are guilty of trying to remove the Human element from
HR. Either that or the don't view recruitment as an
HR function.
About half of my calls were not returned. More than half the letters I sent were not acknowledged. I had to fight against incorrect information supplied about the terms of employment and salary.
I have no doubt this is true. It's also a disgrace.
I have this belief that only about 20% of people in any profession are really very good at what they do, then there's probably about 50% who are mediocre and 30% who are truly crap. Is
HR any better?
HR – most incompetent profession in Australia?
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