HR problems and the search for IT specialists

    Hello, dear users.

    Today I decided to touch upon a heart-breaking, for many, topic, like finding a new job. Not even so, perhaps. There are competent specialists about whom there is already enough information on the network. But who also need new projects.

    And now, many specialist developers receive just tons of spam from hr-managers who promise mountains of wealth, interesting projects and crazy prospects.

    I will try to make out the situation during the historical sequence of events. And immediately I will give remarks.

    I bring a case of fiction, but I think that many will see in it something familiar.

    So, you are a specialist with more than 5 years of experience. You have experience working in different companies, including large and well-known ones. You also have a decent portfolio of non-trivial works. Your posts are online. For example, about development, about different projects, etc.


    You receive a message from the hr-manager, who begins to tell you that he found you on the network, you are a cool specialist and are very necessary in the project of some large company. Very often some strange company is called. But to your question, who are they at all, they can tell that this company is developing for, for example, Samsung and other giants.

    It is not possible to obtain information on salaries and conditions. You are informed that you yourself must write the desired salary and conditions. The company will consider them. When you ask if they can pay me so much so that I do not waste my time, they will answer you that there are no problems. It fits into their budget.

    The only thing you need to do is send your resume, and yet, very often - complete the test task. To the question, what kind of nonsense, am I a well-known specialist with a large number of complex projects behind me, what, in FIG, is the test task for the middle? They answer you that it is not they who decide that they say so.

    Events can develop further in two ways.

    First, the hr-manager just disappears for several weeks, feeds you some breakfasts. And when you already press it, it will inform you that you are not coming. When asked why, they will say that you either want too much money, or have already taken someone else, or the reason is not known to him at all.

    The second option is that you can be invited for an interview. Either in the office (if the same city), or on Skype. You will not be able to speak with anyone. It may be another specialist from the company, it may be some secretary, or they may not be presented at all. But it will not be the one who makes the decisions. And this is the main point. You will begin to be asked some, often dumb, questions that may not concern your topic at all. Your question, whether your work has been watched, whether your articles and publications have been read, will often be answered no. Like there is no point, we are now talking.

    It ends with the fact that they tell you that you are a very cool specialist, they are all happy. But the decision is not made by them, but by the bosses from above. Like they’ll call you. As a result, they don’t call you for a month, and you begin to yank the hr-manager, whom you begin to hate quietly. He tells you that: either you want a lot of money, or you have already taken another, or you were refused, but you did not give a reason.

    Further, after passing several such “interviews”, you already simply cover any hr-manager with obscenities, and send them to hell, without even going into the gist.

    I think that the picture is familiar to many. And everyone himself became a participant in such a show.

    Why is this happening and what problems do I see.

    As a rule, HR managers are young people, if not young people. They are not able to evaluate a person neither from a professional point of view, nor from a psychological one. In the overwhelming majority of cases, such people receive remuneration from the found specialist, in the amount of one monthly wage that the found specialist will receive.

    That is the number one problem.

    1) The HR manager does not solve your employment problem. He also does not solve the problem of the company in finding a qualified specialist. He solves his personal problem - making money. He cannot evaluate you as a specialist, and he does not want to either. The most important thing is to get a resume from you. Also, he cannot and does not want to solve the problem of the company. The most important thing is to give your resume to the company. If he shoots - cool, he broke the bank. If you don’t shoot, then you need to redouble your efforts to send spam.

    Here I see a number of other problems. Where does the confidential information of specialists go? What is being done to her and where can she later emerge? An aimless loss of time by a specialist, as well as getting unnecessary stress.

    2) The HR manager is not responsible for anything. If the company is a scammer and does not pay salaries, then this is not his problem. If the specialist turns out to be fake, then there is no demand from the HR manager. They say the company itself conducted an interview, I have nothing to do with it.

    3) The complete destruction of confidence in the labor market in general, in companies and specialists in particular.

    4) Creating a fake soap bubble in the labor market and in specific areas. Fake bloated salaries and fake vacancies completely distort the understanding of the real picture in the market.

    5) This state of affairs on the labor market leads to the fact that sensible specialists start looking for clients themselves and open their own small business. Successfully or not, this is another matter. But at the same time, large companies cannot equip their staff with highly qualified personnel. There is a staff turnover and a decline in the region, in our particular case, the IT region.

    As a result, after a little understanding of this problem, it becomes more or less clear where all this is going and where it will lead.

    As I see the solution to this problem. I see only two ways.

    1. This is each company employer, independently searches for specialists. Itself gives selection criteria and technical requirements. She interviews herself. Accordingly, she herself is responsible for her selection and attitude to this issue.

    Sometimes you read an ad from HR managers with requirements for the applicant, and you don’t understand whether these people are in your mind or not.

    2. Create a normal and human labor market by licensing the work of HR companies. Only specialists with experience in a particular field can make the initial selection of the applicant. To undertake obligations to conduct a quality interview, removing this need from companies. Contribute to the general database of the applicant, its capabilities and merits. So that next time, he did not have to go through all these stupid and useless procedures again from scratch. And if a company that needs a specialist delegates the authority to select HR-company personnel, then it is under an agreement to rely on such a choice. And do not interview again. Otherwise, it makes no sense to trust the selection of someone, but you need to do the selection of personnel yourself.

    Unfortunately, I do not think that a solution to the problem that I wrote about may occur in the CIS countries. But I will hope that, nevertheless, someday there will be a restoration of order in the labor market, and everything will become transparent and understandable.

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