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In this day and age, why is it that companies drag candidates that far along? For all the talk of a lack of engineers, you'd think companies would be a bit quic
by 67726e 10y ago
In this day and age, why is it that companies drag candidates that far along? For all the talk of a lack of engineers, you'd think companies would be a bit quicker about it.
When the startup I was working at went belly-up in July, I had to scramble for a position. There was one local I applied at, I had a handful of contacts at lean on the HR to fast-track me, etc. By the time they got back to me for a phone screen several months had passed and I found a good job with another company.
Having little understanding of HR practices, why is this?
- cmdrfred 10y ago"Better safe than sorry" is the enemy of efficiency. Jobs are more temporary than ever and many people who aren't high skill developers are scared of losing their positions. This has caused in my estimation less autonomy in the work place. Every decision no matter how small requires the sign off of an entire chain of command so that you might "cover your ass".
- komali2 10y agoI would say in cases like that it's probably other people who also have little understanding of HR practices. I think the smartest thing my company did was hire a professional recruiter to supplement the HR team - she brought me on, as well as maybe 25% of this office, solo. She contacted me within about a day of me responding to a reasonably well written linkedin JD, stayed on top of me almost daily, and had sold me on the company, with an offer in hand, within 2 weeks of initial contact. Just having someone who's job it is to recruit, and who's good at that job, can make a world of difference. I know a lot of startups just have the engineering manager or CEO themselves do it, which is a shame, because you can easily contract it out for something like a 10-20% finder's fee to a good recruiter/agency. Say what you want, there are good ones out there.