E.g., (1) it took us 7 months to hire a (US citizen) post doc. (2) we lost a faculty candidate because HR took so long to generate an offer letter that the person applied for and started another job between when they got a verbal offer and when they got a written offer letter.
HR is completely non responsive and on the off chance you get in contact with them you get one of three answers:
- you're dumb because you didn't know about this other form/rule/policy
- you actually need to talk to X (typically the person who sent me to them)
- the policy from last time changed, or are claimed to have changed
That doesn't sound too much worse than some HR in industry...
OT: could I ask you some questions about another thread (semiconductor fabs), privately? My twitter contact info is in my profile.
amen. thank you. unfortunately similar challenges exist in industry enterprise environments. small companies can be immune from it.
I've worked at a bunch of places...honestly small company/startup HR scares me just as much.
Somewhere in there is a happy balance between 'no HR' and an 'HR run organization'. I haven't experienced it, but I would choose big companies over academia in a heart beat
please expound. i am in a similar predicament and feel like a lone voice in the wild when trying to express this to my peers. i can't tell if they don't see what i do or if they are on board with it.