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HR replaced by Math formula?

HR replaced by Math formula?

RE: HR replaced by Math formula?

I like that the first piece interviewed a senior HR person.

"Excuse me sir, do you believe this formula can replace you and your entire peer group?"
"What do you mean 'No'?"

Really though, I think that if you could take the human out of HR then you could give this tool to the people in the department who need more people and they could use it, along with their technical expertise, to find the right person.  
Engineer's bias of course but HR should not really be involved in hiring, only in solving human problems as they arise in any large group.  

RE: HR replaced by Math formula?

We believe our HR department should be renamed to SA

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RE: HR replaced by Math formula?

What goes in, comes out.

The math models relies on the perfect job description, and a candidate that isn't embellishing his/hers response.

Ask 3 different people to write up your job description, along with what skills and traits are important to do the job sucessfully, and function within your team. Now compare the 3 description, and you. Do they match?

If it does, great - maybe this new formula might work.

If it doesn't, then the formula won't help much because the matching part isn't the problem. The problem is on the job description and the interviewee's response end of things.

RE: HR replaced by Math formula?

You'd have to get HR out of the loop to do this--none of them can do math beyond counting to 10.

David

RE: HR replaced by Math formula?

My father had one of the first HR experiences years ago. Dad was a construction superintendent who did a lot of concrete work. He was used to taking a few key people with him to a job and hiring most of his crew locally. Those of you with construction experience, particularly during a building boom know that although there are many competent, hard working tradesmen, there are also a lot of workers from the shallow end of the gene pool. They are available for work because they lost their last job.
Well dad was working for a company that was approached by a college grad who had specialized in what would later become known as HR. The grad persuaded the company to let him do the hiring for a bridge project. Dad was informed that he would no longer be burdened with the hiring chores, the company now had an "Expert" to interview prospective employees.
Dad used to reminisce about that bridge. He said that it was the most personable crew he had ever had. Everyone was pleasant. Everyone came to work on time. He didn't have to worry about no shows and extreme hangovers the morning after payday. No visits from bailiffs, collection agents, process servers or the police looking for someone on the crew.
Dad said it was the nicest crew he ever had, before or since.
The only problem was that he didn't have one man who knew the first thing about construction in general, let alone concrete bridge construction.
yours

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