For managers: How do you get what you need from the HR department? [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard a manager complain, “The HR department included ‘must have college degree’ in the job req even though I don’t care” or “They asked for 5 years of experience in a technology that’s only been around for 3” or “I have no idea why they rejected this candidate without even contacting me.”

Still, in many cases you don’t have a choice. If you want to hire someone, you need to deal with HR, at least to a small degree – especially if you work in a big company.

So I’m writing a feature story for technology managers, collecting real-world advice from people who learned their lessons the hard way.

Let’s say you have a new opening in your department. In what ways do you involve HR? (That could be anything from, “give them general guidelines and let them choose the best candidates for me to interview” to “I do the search myself, and use HR only for on-boarding.”) What makes you choose that path? How much choice do you have in the matter?

What do you wish you knew “n” years ago about dealing with your company’s HR department?

Please don’t assume that I think HR always sucks. However, there isn’t as much to learn from “why HR is your friend.” The idea here is to help techie managers cope when HR doesn’t offer what you hoped for.

manpreet 2 years ago

Let’s say you have a new href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/opening">opening in your department. In what ways do you involve HR?

You, as the manager, have to write down a list with the href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/requirements">requirements and aspects needed from potential candidates (years of experience, degree or not, etc.).

If you are letting HR come up with these then that is part of the problem, as it is unlikely they know things like "this technology has been around for 3 years, no way I'm asking for 5 years of experience on it."

After that (each company is different though), you send that list to HR, and ask them to do the initial screening. Ideally you want to double check they got the correct list. When they finish the initial screening then you can proceed to the second round, where you can go deeper and more href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/technical">technical on the href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/subject">subject.