Comments on: The Job Seeker’s Cry http://www.runningwithoutcondition.com/2009/05/13/the-job-seekers-cry/ Jumpstarting my career, but the engine is stalling... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ciphun http://www.runningwithoutcondition.com/2009/05/13/the-job-seekers-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-45 ciphun Sun, 31 May 2009 04:03:40 +0000 http://laid0ff.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-45 Lisa: Sorry for my late response to your reply. I am glad that you enjoyed this post. I can only imagine how difficult and trying it must be to work in HR right now. When I first started to right this post, I neglected to consider the other side. It started to become very one sided. But I had to take into account the enormous amount of requests and applications that have to becoming your way and the way of others in your field. It's daunting on both ends, but I stand firm that there definitely needs to be a shift in the way the hiring practices are currently being handled... on both ends. I think the more people express their thoughts, opinions, problems and potential solutions; the better the chance exists to make these changes. Thank you so very much for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed the site. Lisa:

Sorry for my late response to your reply. I am glad that you enjoyed this post. I can only imagine how difficult and trying it must be to work in HR right now. When I first started to right this post, I neglected to consider the other side. It started to become very one sided. But I had to take into account the enormous amount of requests and applications that have to becoming your way and the way of others in your field. It’s daunting on both ends, but I stand firm that there definitely needs to be a shift in the way the hiring practices are currently being handled… on both ends. I think the more people express their thoughts, opinions, problems and potential solutions; the better the chance exists to make these changes. Thank you so very much for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed the site.

]]> By: André Sanders http://www.runningwithoutcondition.com/2009/05/13/the-job-seekers-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-210 André Sanders Sun, 31 May 2009 04:03:00 +0000 http://laid0ff.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-210 Lisa: Sorry for my late response to your reply. I am glad that you enjoyed this post. I can only imagine how difficult and trying it must be to work in HR right now. When I first started to right this post, I neglected to consider the other side. It started to become very one sided. But I had to take into account the enormous amount of requests and applications that have to becoming your way and the way of others in your field. It's daunting on both ends, but I stand firm that there definitely needs to be a shift in the way the hiring practices are currently being handled... on both ends. I think the more people express their thoughts, opinions, problems and potential solutions; the better the chance exists to make these changes. Thank you so very much for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed the site. Lisa:

Sorry for my late response to your reply. I am glad that you enjoyed this post. I can only imagine how difficult and trying it must be to work in HR right now. When I first started to right this post, I neglected to consider the other side. It started to become very one sided. But I had to take into account the enormous amount of requests and applications that have to becoming your way and the way of others in your field. It’s daunting on both ends, but I stand firm that there definitely needs to be a shift in the way the hiring practices are currently being handled… on both ends. I think the more people express their thoughts, opinions, problems and potential solutions; the better the chance exists to make these changes. Thank you so very much for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed the site.

]]> By: Lisa M. Thomas http://www.runningwithoutcondition.com/2009/05/13/the-job-seekers-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Lisa M. Thomas Sat, 30 May 2009 20:47:27 +0000 http://laid0ff.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-46 This post is right on the money. As a former HR Director and current hiring manager, I can tell you that even with all my ducks in a row it is still an average 43-day turnaround from the time a job is posted to the point where an offer I have made is accepted by the selected applicant. That is a long time for those on the front lines to hold it together, short-staffed. In the meantime, "emergency collaboration and partnership" occurs within those departments which immediately sets desired skill sets askew leaving everyone to scramble to find the right (and ever-changing) puzzle pieces in a timely manner. I posted awhile back on the need to recognize the powerful opportunity before us: there are so many seasoned HR pros out of work. They know all the right things to do to get hired. Yet they remain unemployed. If the HR pros cannot succeed in landing open (or the quietly networked) positions, it serves as proof for me that the current recruitment and selection paradigm is in need of a profound shift. This post is right on the money. As a former HR Director and current hiring manager, I can tell you that even with all my ducks in a row it is still an average 43-day turnaround from the time a job is posted to the point where an offer I have made is accepted by the selected applicant. That is a long time for those on the front lines to hold it together, short-staffed. In the meantime, “emergency collaboration and partnership” occurs within those departments which immediately sets desired skill sets askew leaving everyone to scramble to find the right (and ever-changing) puzzle pieces in a timely manner.

I posted awhile back on the need to recognize the powerful opportunity before us: there are so many seasoned HR pros out of work. They know all the right things to do to get hired. Yet they remain unemployed. If the HR pros cannot succeed in landing open (or the quietly networked) positions, it serves as proof for me that the current recruitment and selection paradigm is in need of a profound shift.

]]> By: Lisa M. Thomas http://www.runningwithoutcondition.com/2009/05/13/the-job-seekers-cry/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Lisa M. Thomas Sat, 30 May 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://laid0ff.wordpress.com/?p=208#comment-211 This post is right on the money. As a former HR Director and current hiring manager, I can tell you that even with all my ducks in a row it is still an average 43-day turnaround from the time a job is posted to the point where an offer I have made is accepted by the selected applicant. That is a long time for those on the front lines to hold it together, short-staffed. In the meantime, "emergency collaboration and partnership" occurs within those departments which immediately sets desired skill sets askew leaving everyone to scramble to find the right (and ever-changing) puzzle pieces in a timely manner. I posted awhile back on the need to recognize the powerful opportunity before us: there are so many seasoned HR pros out of work. They know all the right things to do to get hired. Yet they remain unemployed. If the HR pros cannot succeed in landing open (or the quietly networked) positions, it serves as proof for me that the current recruitment and selection paradigm is in need of a profound shift. This post is right on the money. As a former HR Director and current hiring manager, I can tell you that even with all my ducks in a row it is still an average 43-day turnaround from the time a job is posted to the point where an offer I have made is accepted by the selected applicant. That is a long time for those on the front lines to hold it together, short-staffed. In the meantime, “emergency collaboration and partnership” occurs within those departments which immediately sets desired skill sets askew leaving everyone to scramble to find the right (and ever-changing) puzzle pieces in a timely manner.

I posted awhile back on the need to recognize the powerful opportunity before us: there are so many seasoned HR pros out of work. They know all the right things to do to get hired. Yet they remain unemployed. If the HR pros cannot succeed in landing open (or the quietly networked) positions, it serves as proof for me that the current recruitment and selection paradigm is in need of a profound shift.

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