Good grief! Don't they do probationary periods to see if someone will work out? Maybe the QA manager can clout HR over the heads and get you in anyway.
HR people can really screw up hiring - I almost didn't get my job because it looked like I "job hopped" to the guy. If he'd put things on a continuum, he'd have seen that I was working several part-time jobs concurrently in order to pay my bills!
I have this feeling that HR paper-pushers have sort of stealthed their way into a stranglehold on American business. Nothing happens without HR's sighoff, even when HR hasn't got the first clue what the hell it's doing and all the people who do actual work are wishing HR would just get out of the way and let them get the job done.
Go over the HR person's head, mail relevent stuff to the manager and friend inside already, and address it by name directly to them.
The OTHER way to get around HR is to meet with the manager, discuss your experience qualifications, and then help draft up a job position requirements/qualifications that is tailor made just for you--literally making you perfect for the position.
Thanks for the input. Waiting to hear something back, but given the implied and expressed attitudes, I don't expect anything in the line of good news.
Something I'm considering is that if I have to go over someone's head to get hired, my tenure at that company is likely to be fraught with unpleasant tension and resentment from the persons bypassed. People in that type position, who think the way this HR person seems to be thinking, don't take kindly to being called on it or overridden. And I've already lived in the special kind of hell when certain people in the company feel they are forced to keep you.
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HR people can really screw up hiring - I almost didn't get my job because it looked like I "job hopped" to the guy. If he'd put things on a continuum, he'd have seen that I was working several part-time jobs concurrently in order to pay my bills!
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Go over the HR person's head, mail relevent stuff to the manager and friend inside already, and address it by name directly to them.
The OTHER way to get around HR is to meet with the manager, discuss your experience qualifications, and then help draft up a job position requirements/qualifications that is tailor made just for you--literally making you perfect for the position.
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Something I'm considering is that if I have to go over someone's head to get hired, my tenure at that company is likely to be fraught with unpleasant tension and resentment from the persons bypassed. People in that type position, who think the way this HR person seems to be thinking, don't take kindly to being called on it or overridden. And I've already lived in the special kind of hell when certain people in the company feel they are forced to keep you.
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