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> Most HR departments are staffed by women for example Do you see the irony in this statement?
by bitops 13y ago
> Most HR departments are staffed by women for example
Do you see the irony in this statement?
- Peroni 13y agoHe's stating fact. The HR industry is absolutely dominated by females. That's not a matter of opinion.
- danilocampos 13y agowoosh
- douglasisshiny 13y agoI'm going to leave this here: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf
- drcube 13y agoHuman Resources Managers 72.7% women Human Resources Workers 71.8% women Human Resources Assistants 82.7% women
- clarkmoody 13y agoRelevant data, for those not reading, though I suggest it. Role % Women ================================ ======= Human Resource Managers 72.7 Human Resource Workers 71.8 Human resources assistants [...] 82.7
- mehrzad 13y agoIf one notes that a joke is fact, it does not imply they didn't understand the joke.
- saraid216 13y agoIt does imply they didn't understand the joke. It does not mean that the implication is true.
- tptacek 13y agoHuman resources people are the ones who negotiate on behalf of the company to get cheap health insurance. They aren't hiring managers.
- patmcc 13y agoThey nearly always perform the initial sorting of resumes. People in charge of departments or groups (who are usually the ones hiring) are often too busy to sort through 400 resumes.
- vidarh 13y agoEven at lower levels. I managed a team of 4 people at Yahoo, and whenever I was replacing someone, we'd send a spec to HR, negotiate a pay grade target to fit the department budget, and wait for the resumes, who'd first been sorted by external recruiters, then been further filtered by internal HR before they landed in my inbox. This was true even when I managed hiring at a company of 50 people or so. At companies smaller than that, I've usually been the one to have a first look at resumes for my team.
- Peroni 13y agoThat's an incredibly uninformed opinion you've got there Thomas! HR tends to be the first line of defence between a job seeker and a hiring manager. The majority also conduct the phone interview and occasionally the first face to face interview. Finally, who do you think hires other HR staff? So, yes. Human resource people are hiring managers. More so than most.
- sp332 13y agoWhat, that women often discriminate against women? That's ironic but also true. Or maybe that men discriminate against HR departments... not sure that's true but at least it's funny :)
- anon808 13y agoYou do realize that HR doesn't actually hire people (except for HR roles of course), department managers make the hiring decisions. HR is there to support the process.
- klipt 13y agoThere must be an awful lot of anti-male sexism in HR departments to keep the percentage of men so low.