Nobert
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I rate HR types at about the same level as you rate, "the Boys." They usually have very little comprehension as to the day to day needs of a particular department, but they are entrusted to the role of corporate gatekeepers. They're the same type of squirrels who were employed as guidance counselors in college: give me a course catalogue and the requisites for a major and general degree requirements, and I'll select courses on my own, TYVM.
Don't get me started. This general subsection of business has dogged me my whole adult life. As Lizzie said, they foist the prerequisite of a degree on you for something like running a photocopier. And these days they have computer filters that will automatically throw out any resume that doesn't have certain key words. I remember having the revelation that since they don't know how to do anything except work in Human Resources, they're not really qualified to decide who's qualified to do anything, unless they're hiring someone to work in H.R. (pretty much what you said, worded differently). And someone told me a while ago that hiring is only a small part of what H.R. departments do, their main job is to keep the company from getting sued. There may be some perfectly lovely, decent people who work in the field, but when you have an institution of professional cowards set up like that, how can you possibly hire the best people for you company? Okay, I got started, I will curtail my rant.