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Shakespeare had it wrong---not kill all of the lawyers, leave them on the list sure, but first kill everyone in human resources. Ask yourself how many times the first question asked in today's interviews is 'Can you do the job?' To my admitted old fashioned way of thinking, it should be the first , middle and last question. Particularly since it is the only question that makes a damn bit of difference. Oh---and then kill all of the lawyers...


first kill everyone in human resources.

Blaming the HR guys for bad hiring practices is like blaming a coder for feature creep.

The fault lies with business directing HR to do things the way they do.

This probably got started when someone infected business with the idea that one should manage people the way xerox machines and staplers are managed.

They changed the Personal Department to Human Resources and lurched into a Red Queen's Race to the bottom.




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