FantasistsEddie Spunkbubble says: I used to know a sad case who fancied himself as a bit of a 007 and bragged that he always carried a loaded 9mm pistol in his attache case "just in case". Overheard by an off-duty copper, he was asked to make good on his claim. A packed lunch, red face and a stern warning "not to act the twat" and he never did it again. Tell us of Walter Mitty types.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jun 2014, 11:40)
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It's because......people like to think that recruitment selection is an easy thing that anyone can do and one that requires no special skills. It isn't, as you point out.
Please note, 99.9% of recruitment agencies don't specialise in recruitment selection, they specialise in sales. They promise the earth to get a few good candidates onto their books then promise the earth to get the rest of their (not very good) candidates in front of interviewers. They rely on being able to throw lots of candidates at any given position, knowing that the interviewers probably aren't all that great at interviewing. Shit sticks, being the founding principle.
And HR aren't recruitment selection experts either; they are experts at HR i.e. cost management.
Basically, 99% of British business relies on most people either being shit but enthusiastic (for which read "passionate"), or knowing their stuff but being entirely cynical (most probably because they are being managed by someone shit but enthusiastic).
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 9 Jun 2014, 13:33,
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