Giant shrimp, military intelligence, Senate Ethics Committee, Human Resources. Yes, all oxymorons (not to be confused with Rush Limbaugh, a moron on Oxy!).
10’s of thousands of resumes flood the internet everyday. Software used by HR departments ‘filter’ the resumes that are sent in via on-line job postings, sometimes scrubbing valid candidates from ever being interviewed due to a missing key word or obscure search string. An HR ‘professional’ even admitted that upon receiving literally 1000s of resumes for a single position, grabs the top handful and cans the rest (it should surprise no one what can be learned at an industry conference happy hour!). To make matters even worse, few companies even acknowledge the effort of applying to them. How many people out there have ever applied for one or more positions and never hear whether the company even received your resume? I’m going out on a limb and say MOST! The larger companies are horrendous at communicating with those interested in joining them.
My vote is for bringing the ‘human’ back to human resources. We’re all in this together and chances are the shoe may switch foots for you or a family member one day.
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