Comments on: Dealing with HR Gatekeepers http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/ Ride you career hard so it doesn't ride you Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:22:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orietta http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Orietta Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:03:28 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-611 Mary - appreciate your calling us out on the grammar issue. As much as content is the primary focus, correct and proper usage has intrinsic value. Jorge - kudos for your accountability, and here I thought you were infallible!:) Mary – appreciate your calling us out on the grammar issue. As much as content is the primary focus, correct and proper usage has intrinsic value.

Jorge – kudos for your accountability, and here I thought you were infallible!:)

]]> By: Jorge Lazaro Diaz http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Jorge Lazaro Diaz Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:50:14 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-610 Thanks for pointing out the grammar mistakes. I may start intentionally misspelling words just to get more comments. The fault falls completely on me. Orietta sends me the articles. I come up with the headlines. Since I had to go in and fix this, I changed it to "Dealing with HR Gatekeepers" which seemed like a better headline than what I had before. Keep on keeping me honest. Thanks for pointing out the grammar mistakes. I may start intentionally misspelling words just to get more comments.

The fault falls completely on me. Orietta sends me the articles. I come up with the headlines. Since I had to go in and fix this, I changed it to “Dealing with HR Gatekeepers” which seemed like a better headline than what I had before.

Keep on keeping me honest.

]]> By: Mary Keane http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Mary Keane Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:19:57 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-609 Grammar! In the headline, no less. Grammar! In the headline, no less.

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]]> By: Walter "super mercado" http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Walter "super mercado" Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:24:33 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-390 Funny you should use the term 'gatekeepers' as an HR analogy. I find they have been just that, but more like Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guards the gates of hell! These "hounds of hell", so to speak, have been given the excuse in this economy to rear their ugly heads. Bitter? No! Just calling them out on their unabashed callousness, incompetence and pomposity. Like you point out, if they are not busy not responding to e-mails/phone calls and failing to follow-up with prospectives on feedback/next steps, they are out there in cyberspace trolling social networking/job sites for their next victim, I mean candidate, whom they can submit to their sadistic gauntlet of "interviews", probitive inquisitions and background investigations. Hey, they have job security knowing that if the whole HR thing doesn't work out, they can always get jobs with the TSA finding new ways to piss off, harass, cavity-search and delay Christmas holiday travelers. Nuff said! Sorry, you already took the high road, so I wanted to avoid that traffic. Funny you should use the term ‘gatekeepers’ as an HR analogy. I find they have been just that, but more like Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guards the gates of hell!
These “hounds of hell”, so to speak, have been given the excuse in this economy to rear their ugly heads. Bitter? No! Just calling them out on their unabashed callousness, incompetence and pomposity.
Like you point out, if they are not busy not responding to e-mails/phone calls and failing to follow-up with prospectives on feedback/next steps, they are out there in cyberspace trolling social networking/job sites for their next victim, I mean candidate, whom they can submit to their sadistic gauntlet of “interviews”, probitive inquisitions and background investigations. Hey, they have job security knowing that if the whole HR thing doesn’t work out, they can always get jobs with the TSA finding new ways to piss off, harass, cavity-search and delay Christmas holiday travelers. Nuff said! Sorry, you already took the high road, so I wanted to avoid that traffic.

]]> By: Jose Manuel de Jesus http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Jose Manuel de Jesus Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:44:23 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-387 Folks and Orietta, You are so poignant and right on here. There are moments when you have to wonder, "How did an idiot like this get into HR," when thinking of some of the people whom I have interviewed with. This has to include senior managers who are competely intimidated by a well-rounded resume. (You know who you are out there, don't pretend.). No one is perfect, but there are key points of contact and matching for personality, as well as experience and track record of achievement. One has to wonder what book/manual these folks are taking their HR-speak and hiring practices from and when it was written. Everyone gets laid-off or fired once or twice in their lives. There has to be a point from which to go from this place. It seems like such a tragedy but ther are times when it is a blessing in disguise to be let go froma position that is not paying enough, has limited growth and work mobility opportunities, and where the supervisor is simply uncomfortable with anyone else 'shining' other than him/her, or worse: Is a condescending, second-guessing and just plain nasty person. I have had all of these bosses at one time or another and boy am I glad to have been able to move on. JM De Jesus President Q2PR & Certified Business Advisor Brooklyn Small Business Development Center at NY City College of Technology Folks and Orietta,
You are so poignant and right on here. There are moments when you have to wonder, “How did an idiot like this get into HR,” when thinking of some of the people whom I have interviewed with. This has to include senior managers who are competely intimidated by a well-rounded resume. (You know who you are out there, don’t pretend.). No one is perfect, but there are key points of contact and matching for personality, as well as experience and track record of achievement.
One has to wonder what book/manual these folks are taking their HR-speak and hiring practices from and when it was written. Everyone gets laid-off or fired once or twice in their lives. There has to be a point from which to go from this place. It seems like such a tragedy but ther are times when it is a blessing in disguise to be let go froma position that is not paying enough, has limited growth and work mobility opportunities, and where the supervisor is simply uncomfortable with anyone else ‘shining’ other than him/her, or worse: Is a condescending, second-guessing and just plain nasty person. I have had all of these bosses at one time or another and boy am I glad to have been able to move on.
JM De Jesus
President
Q2PR
&
Certified Business Advisor
Brooklyn Small Business Development Center
at NY City College of Technology

]]> By: Maggie Hernandez http://www.careerjockey.org/dealing-with-hr-gatekeepers/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Maggie Hernandez Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:16:38 +0000 http://www.careerjockey.org/?p=1824#comment-386 Easier said than done, I'm sure. But, what I would give to be unemployed so I could run my own show! Why not give opening your business a shot? You're a smart, educated woman with a voice (and a law degree). Check out this article "Things to Do With a Law Degree" by Joseph Nicholson (http://www.ehow.com/way_5194484_things-do-law-degree.html). Easier said than done, I’m sure. But, what I would give to be unemployed so I could run my own show! Why not give opening your business a shot? You’re a smart, educated woman with a voice (and a law degree). Check out this article “Things to Do With a Law Degree”
by Joseph Nicholson (http://www.ehow.com/way_5194484_things-do-law-degree.html).

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