Is it too late to marry rich and just be done with this 'working for a living' malarkey?
We got a new HR admin this week.
The process was kind of crazy. We put up an advert on one of the most popular websites and got something like 170 applications in a week. We went through all the CVs and selected eight candidates to interview over the phone. Four made it to a face to face interview.
I really liked one of the candidates but my manager thought she was too ambitious and wouldn't stay in the role for very long, so she turned everyone down, meaning we were back in square one. As a last ditch effort, we interviewed a friend of one of our developers.
She sounded alright on the phone, our CEO liked her, etc. so we offered her to job and she started on Monday.
I was really looking forward to having another person to join our team but this girl (I shouldn't say that, she's older than I am)... She's really not very smart.
And I know I'm the last person who should be throwing stones on that front but at least I understand that when you move onto another browser tab, the previous one doesn't just disappear. And I can use the search function in a document. And I know how bookmarks work.
She seems nice enough but she needs to be told everything, and I don't know how much help she's going to be with our workload. And my manager is frustrated and she's taking it out on me, criticising my lack of proactivity in recruitment when I can barely keep up with the applications coming in right now.
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The process was kind of crazy. We put up an advert on one of the most popular websites and got something like 170 applications in a week. We went through all the CVs and selected eight candidates to interview over the phone. Four made it to a face to face interview.
I really liked one of the candidates but my manager thought she was too ambitious and wouldn't stay in the role for very long, so she turned everyone down, meaning we were back in square one. As a last ditch effort, we interviewed a friend of one of our developers.
She sounded alright on the phone, our CEO liked her, etc. so we offered her to job and she started on Monday.
I was really looking forward to having another person to join our team but this girl (I shouldn't say that, she's older than I am)... She's really not very smart.
And I know I'm the last person who should be throwing stones on that front but at least I understand that when you move onto another browser tab, the previous one doesn't just disappear. And I can use the search function in a document. And I know how bookmarks work.
She seems nice enough but she needs to be told everything, and I don't know how much help she's going to be with our workload. And my manager is frustrated and she's taking it out on me, criticising my lack of proactivity in recruitment when I can barely keep up with the applications coming in right now.
Originally posted at Dreamwidth. You can also comment there using OpenID.