HR lies in the eye of beholder

For many of you who have absolutely no or a bare minimum knowledge of how the corporate world works, Human Resources is the guy who sits on the chair opposite to you in an interview and asks partly archaic and some mind boggling questions. It’s not wrong though, that guy is a part of the recruitment and training team but that’s not the central point. Being stereotyped as the HR team in most companies, the recruitment and training teams suffer the most from the backlash on their company or the industry per se.

To debrief what they’re all about, we describe their work from their name itself.

Not just the interview, huh? Their first job is to analyse the job openings in every field, form a description of the job and then spread the word to invite deserving candidates to fill the post through appropriate means. Next comes the tiring interview sessions where they have to evaluate quite a number of applicants on the basis of an exhaustive resume reading and a personal session wit them. They cannot afford to let go of a gem and have to endure a lot of stones to get to him/her.

Once they find the right person to do the job, they move on to the next step, i.e. training. While experienced players settle well and soon, hiring a first-timer means teaching a one year old how to talk. They’ve to spell everything and make them understand how to move around.

If that’s not enough ordeal on their part, a significant number of employees are observed to leave the company in a period of 6 months to 2 years in search of better opportunities and growth prospects. Guess they’ve to do it all again!

So even if you and many others are simply ignorant about the kind of pressure your interviewer is under, you’ll never see them break a sweat. Kudos to the recruitment and training teams!

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