HR people are beyond useless

lostexpectation

TO HR people of the world, please when I go to an interview,often the potential employee has as much questions about the job as you have for them so can I be interviewed by someone who actually knows about the job im going for, who has either done it, or supervised it, or is currently involved in it. Can I be interviewed by someone who actually knows where the place of work is exactly!

TheWolf

Take it the interview didn't go so well?

Eoin

Was the HR person the only person conducting the interview? Normally they are there along with the person who should be able to answer all these questions. They're not really there to answer specific questions about the role.

ToxicPaddy

As a person who was recently job hunting, I have found that a lot of HR people really dont have a clue what they are doing when it comes to interviews.

Most will give you an overview of the company, what area/dept the job is with within the company a very brief overview of the job. This is usually read from a piece of paper as they don't have a clue themselves.

Based on this interview, the candidate is the judged on whether they are suitable or not to get called back for a second round interview. Which to me seems completely pointless as the OP said.

If you know very little about the actual position you're going for due to limited info from the recruitment consultant/agency, the HR person just drags this out even more and then based on very little judge you on it. You might not even like the position, which happened in one case, but it took the second round of interviews for me to find this out as the HR person for what is a fairly large multi national was completely useless.

Once you are in the job, yes HR are needed and useful with legal issues, work related issues and employee queries etc.

But when it comes down to interviewing possible future employees, they should do the initial introductions and then hand you over to someone in the dept where you will be working.

Tox

lostexpectation

eoin_s wrote:

Was the HR person the only person conducting the interview? Normally they are there along with the person who should be able to answer all these questions. They're not really there to answer specific questions about the role.

like where is it exactly? hmm tough one


yeah two people hr and manager type would be fine, it was the most corporate HR interview I'd even been for she was straight out of HR school asking me interview question but not interviewing me for the job. a waste of my time and hers.

Kivun Sotilas

lostexpectation wrote:

like where is it exactly? hmm tough one


yeah two people hr and manager type would be fine, it was the most corporate HR interview I'd even been for she was straight out of HR school asking me interview question but not interviewing me for the job. a waste of my time and hers.

That's ridiculous if they couldn't even tell you where it was. :mad: