I doubt they do it just to scare employees. It’s way too expensive to use this tactic without having any real savings to show.
It’s probably more likely that HR is keeping HR busy, because what else are they supposed to do when the company isn’t hiring? The explanation that it supposedly keeps employees in check seems like something HR would say to justify their own purpose.
Any (reasonable) CEO would absolutely take thee easy and actual savings of firing the HR instead of paying them to use this unproven pseudo-tactic.
It’s probably more likely that HR is keeping HR busy, because what else are they supposed to do when the company isn’t hiring?
I’m not in HR. In my experience there is good HR departments and bad HR departments. In both they were extremely busy all the time. There is a mountain of work HR does that has nothing to do with hiring and firing. Managing employee benefits, compliance with government regulations regarding workplace access, complex rules for reporting, tracking worker complaints and performance improvement plans for workers not meeting expectations.
That was the first thing I thought, people coming up with reasons to keep their own jobs by saying they need to keep making job posts even if they aren’t going to hire anyone, and to say that when they are ready to hire they already have applicants
It’s probably more nuanced than the research can show. At my work, we had a job posting and interviews and selected candidates but the job description was written long before and the management wanted a different skill set (needed more Azure experience) and so basically that job posting never came to be. It’s still being reworked and maybe it’ll actually produce an FTE but it’s a fake job posting that wasn’t meant to be.
Nuanced? That sounds like your HR/Management is just bad at their jobs. Why post an advert for a job that you won’t fill because it’s the wrong job, then actually interview people? That’s a huge waste of everyone’s time.
The first step when a role is open is to have the team review and update the job for the necessary skillset. Not doing that is a buisness process failure.
I can see from your reaction that you do not have a lot of experience with this type of thing. Not meaning to be insulting but your comment feels really naive. Jobs sometimes take 6+ months to come to a place where you can post it and get interviews. During that time lots of things can happen. In this case they needed a system administrator and during the 6 months it takes for HR to do their thing, we were given a mandate that we had to change direction as a whole and move out of the Datacenter and into the Azure cloud.
So now we needed a system admin with Azure experience but our original job did not make that a requirement. They kept the job posting and interviews in hopes that one of the people they initially selected would be a fit but sadly none of them had exposure to Azure so we had to start over.
It takes six months from “we need a new person with these skills” to “ok here’s the job posting,” ??? And if in those six months the required skills change a bit, you can’t just tweak the job posting and instead have to start over from scratch???
Your company has serious issues that are wasting everyone’s time and need to be addressed. Stop making excuses for wasting people’s time.
I know it’s low hanging fruit but you noticed I didn’t say anything about being a supporter of either but I actually prefer Biden. Do you really think I give a fuck about pictures of a good or bad president sleeping? They aren’t Gods
You just did the same thing… except for yours are a little more graphic…You do understand by engaging with the smears it brings you down with Trump right? Joe Biden doesn’t get sleepy huh? 😝
You do understand by engaging with the smears it brings you down with Trump right?
I always treat people the way they deserve. i.e. the way they treat others.
Joe Biden doesn’t get sleepy huh?
I’ve never seen Biden ‘sleepy’ in public. Like I have seen with Convicted Felon and Certified Sex Offender Trump. He’s fallen asleep nearly day of his criminal trial. So the only reason to assign that adjective to Biden would be as a ridiculous Trump political smear.
He just walked out of a US district court. If they were going to grab him they would have.
He rolled the dice on being the world’s most well known “journalist” and he lost in the most spectacular way. He’s so incredibly lucky he got off as lightly as he did, having only lost 12 years of his life.
A similar thing happens at the company I just joined. It has a “move fast” culture. I push for new roles that are genuinely needed now. My boss “approves”, but finance puts the brakes on for review. HR doesn’t want me yelling at them, so they post the job to “get a jump on collecting resumes”.
If I lose the battle with finance, the job evaporates. If I win, we scoop up the resumes, and hire someone within a week.
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