This entire fraud department exists to protect management from you, not to help you. I know because I was inside. Let me tell you what HR actually does.
I was sitting in a room full of job seekers in a “work (finding) workshop” when I got the notification with your title. I chuckled. I was told just two minutes before that I put too much of my personality into my CV. I do not want to work for anybody who can’t even bear my personality on a piece of paper.
I watched a girl get fired from her first month on the job, after leaving a different company which paid her well, to work for the one she was hired at under the guise of career growth. After speaking to the IT guy who was close with the hr director, he revealed a conversation to me. He said, “I told her[hr director] why are you ruining this girl? She has a good job, a good life, you know what kind of place this is…” to which she just shrugged it off and went on with her life. Turned out she had already been offered a better hr position at another company and this was just her last few days on the job. She didn’t care about the girl, her life, or wellbeing. She had already moved on. If humans governing humans has turned so inhumane, then why must hr remain human and not ai? I agree with your work.
Brillant take on why gatekeepers need gatekeeping themselves. The twist about AI potentially being fairer than Karen from recruiting hits diferent when you realize most "gut feelings" in hiring are just unexamined biases with a corporate veneer. I once got rejected for a role I was overqualified for and later learned the HR person thought I'd "job hop" based on nothing but vibes.
I'm totally onboard with abolish HR. However, just in case you were not being cheeky (and rage-bait-y) about the idea of an "AI" that could do it better I am here to tell you no way it could do better. Even if the job is a technical one and AI cold be trained to assess a candidates technical skills very well, doing a job is never just technical and a word calculator and data cruncher will never be able to assess humans, on their own qualitative merits, for doing human things in a human world. Humans need to get better at being human, that is hard (and glorious) enough.
An example is if you escalate a conflict to HR that could potentially hinder the rep of the company, they would rather silence you and lay you off than fix it.
I was sitting in a room full of job seekers in a “work (finding) workshop” when I got the notification with your title. I chuckled. I was told just two minutes before that I put too much of my personality into my CV. I do not want to work for anybody who can’t even bear my personality on a piece of paper.
I wish you the best in navigating the utter hellscape that is job seeking!
I watched a girl get fired from her first month on the job, after leaving a different company which paid her well, to work for the one she was hired at under the guise of career growth. After speaking to the IT guy who was close with the hr director, he revealed a conversation to me. He said, “I told her[hr director] why are you ruining this girl? She has a good job, a good life, you know what kind of place this is…” to which she just shrugged it off and went on with her life. Turned out she had already been offered a better hr position at another company and this was just her last few days on the job. She didn’t care about the girl, her life, or wellbeing. She had already moved on. If humans governing humans has turned so inhumane, then why must hr remain human and not ai? I agree with your work.
Brillant take on why gatekeepers need gatekeeping themselves. The twist about AI potentially being fairer than Karen from recruiting hits diferent when you realize most "gut feelings" in hiring are just unexamined biases with a corporate veneer. I once got rejected for a role I was overqualified for and later learned the HR person thought I'd "job hop" based on nothing but vibes.
I'm totally onboard with abolish HR. However, just in case you were not being cheeky (and rage-bait-y) about the idea of an "AI" that could do it better I am here to tell you no way it could do better. Even if the job is a technical one and AI cold be trained to assess a candidates technical skills very well, doing a job is never just technical and a word calculator and data cruncher will never be able to assess humans, on their own qualitative merits, for doing human things in a human world. Humans need to get better at being human, that is hard (and glorious) enough.
This makes my stomach turn. As someone who has no clue what HR does, could you share how HR "protects a company from liability"? Just curious.
An example is if you escalate a conflict to HR that could potentially hinder the rep of the company, they would rather silence you and lay you off than fix it.