[interview]
HR: Can you give me an example of your problem solving skills
Me: I was fired from my last job and now i'm applying for this one
@deankarrier never have I met an H.R. person that I liked, or thought was helpful. They mostly ask formulaic questions that have no real purpose, and I’ve pretty much surmised that most of them font like their jobs, but ironically put there as a phony screening front for the company, or management. They don’t really read resumes, don’t know how to really analyze your skills, or ask you the right questions in the first place… it’s got worse since digitization in last decades.
@djzap @deankarrier Sometimes this is true, but I think it misses some of the value the HR folk bring to the hiring process. They aren't going to know your skills or specialties, but so many applications can come in that they do important work limiting what the next step deals with and filtering out some chaff. There is a lot of room for critique around how that filtering works, but some steps before a task oriented interview make sense.