HR work
March 5th 2010 -
For month, I am assigned at the Human Resources department. This is part of the rotation process the company had implemented to train a few employee –those who are vying for a managerial and executive position -to be familiarized with the whole company operation. I was the one who interviewed one of the applicant’s for a position in the Information system department. I was a bit disappointed because one applicant was called for an interview for a systems data position, when his past job was a barcode scanner sales agent. Though it’s true that scanners are somehow related to the information system, selling them doesn’t qualify an experience about data management. I hope I was not too rude to cut the interview really short because I think he is in line with the sales department and unfortunately we are not hiring people for the sales department. One thing I learned about businesses is that you match your people with work according to their abilities. That is not easy to do because you will only see the true capabilities of people through time. So when you interview applicants, its best to look at their potentials as a start of their evaluation. It’s kinda hard because it’s like judging books by the cover!
