At UNI, HR accepts the incoming resumes, and compare them to the list of requirements. They reject anyone that does not appear to meet the minimum qualifications -- so if you do not word things carefully, while you might be qualified, if HR does not understand that, the resume does not even make it to the search committee. The committees I have served on only got to see the resumes of those people meeting the minimum qualifications -- in the eyes of HR.<br>
<br>Jeff <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 2010-08-31 at 18:28:19, Andrew Vick wrote:<br>
>I've been worrying about the HR people who receive the resumes -- the<br>
>ones who don't know the tech, but are just going off of a list of<br>
>requirements that someone else gave them.<br>
<br>
</div>As a side question about corporate culture, how large of companies have<br>
clueless HR people do the hiring? I occasionally hear allusions to this,<br>
but it is not what i've experienced.<br>
<br>
The places i've worked usually form a committee consisting of the<br>
manager and coworkers of the open position, in other words, the people<br>
most qualified to know what qualifications they need. That committee<br>
reviews all the cover letters & resumes and picks a couple candidates to<br>
interview. HR is involved in the beginning to approve the job<br>
description that is publicized and then publicizing it, and again at the<br>
end of the process to make sure the new employee gets all the necessary<br>
paperwork filled out. But the middle part, actually selecting someone to<br>
hire, is done by the people who know what their team needs. I've spent<br>
most of my career either in academia or at fairly small companies<br>
though. I've only worked for a large company once, and then got to skip<br>
the normal hiring process because i was friends with my manager, who<br>
asked me to come work for the company.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Daniel A. Ramaley<br>
Network Engineer 2<br>
<br>
Dial Center 118, Drake University<br>
2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA<br>
Tel: +1 515 271-4540<br>
Fax: +1 515 271-1938<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a><br>
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