Reply #16: Ugh- I want to slap this bitch [View All]

[FirstLight]

Firstly - at 40 and a single mom in need of some re-training and a viable career option...I attended CSU and got my Certificate in HR Mgmt. last year. Needless to say that HR growth will be on the BACKSIDE of job creation, so I'm screwn.

Secondly, we discussed many of these concepts in class but the corporate mindset is really a diferent animal. They look at it as if it is a game and when the economy is bad like this, and you have 200 applicants for one opening...you can afford to be a jerk and disqualify people for the slightest reason.
And when the economy is good and you need to worry about your emplotyees looking for greener pastures, you shift your attention to retention and training, management grooming, etc...all the stuff that makes someone THINK they have a good opportunity, so they stick around.
My teachers kept reminding us that we may have chosen the field of HR because we like people and want to help others... but we are REALLY there for the bottom line. The company wants to save money and can sometimes fire & re-hire and save money because offering someone who has been with the company mgmt is more costly in the long run. which to me is totally rotten.

So, I trained for HR mgmt and will probably end up going into non-profit work because the corporate-think is so abhorrent to me. they are bastards... and I don't think for ONE minute that investigating potential hires for Facebook naughtyness or drug use is constitutional, either.