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June 29, 2021, 12:05:37 AM
Jobs vacant but managers seem in no rush to hire

Question You've no doubt seen all the news items about how difficult it is to fill jobs these days because so many people aren't interested in working. I've been trying to get a key job filled in my department. I’m in a rush to hire. I can tell you the competition is very stiff. Human Resources keeps losing hires to other employers, even though we’re making competitive job offers. Today I'm really upset because, after 3 weeks of interviews (everyone was very positive about her) we lost a candidate I thought was a definite hire. When I spoke to her


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Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
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Otanx

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June 29, 2021, 02:32:57 PM
This one was funny. If you spend three weeks interviewing, and then two more to get me an offer I am probably already working at my new company. You can give me a verbal offer all day, but until it is on paper it does not mean anything.

-Otanx

deanwebb

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June 30, 2021, 11:35:45 AM
Exactly. Paper/Signed PDF or it didn't happen!
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

wintermute000

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June 30, 2021, 05:05:51 PM
I'm literally in my current role because the other role took too long to get their offer sorted. 

deanwebb

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July 01, 2021, 08:08:09 AM
Yep, don't complain about a jobs shortage when you have an HR bottleneck as a real issue.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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