HR Wench and a LOA Specialist Position - A Match Made in Hades...
At the end of the day, hiring is really all about motivational fit. If you're a hiring manager, lots of people can do the job you have open. If you're a candidate, there are a lot of jobs you can do.
The question is - do really want to take the job that's offered to you? Is the job, the hiring manager, the department and the company a fit for what motivates you on a daily basis?
Exhibit #1 - The current job search of HR Wench:
"I had my in-person panel interview for the Leave of Absence Specialist position onThursday. The organization is a large, faith-based, non-profit. Very conservative and formal. Every person on the panel was wearing a suit. They don't even have casual Fridays. Bummer.
I like the hiring manager, but she speaks very slowly and is rather quiet. This made me fidget in my seat. I wanted to blurt, "spit it out, sister!" The other panel members included two peers of the position and a manager in charge of ADA issues.
I felt a bit like a country bumpkin. I mean, a manager (with a TEAM reporting to her) that only handles ADA issues? Holy crap, Batman.
They were just so...professional about everything. I like to show my personality in interviews; laugh and try to relate to people. They were all very pleasant but also very straight-laced. One thing that really turned me off is when it was my turn to ask them questions, they gave me very rehearsed and sugar coated answers. Every time I tried to peer under the rug ("Why do HR professionals leave the organization?") I would get some bull*** answer about how no one ever leaves because it is SO GREAT there."
Right.... That's a match made in heaven. A HR blogger who riffed this post out about the stodginess of SHRM joins a LOA department. (BTW, HRW, love that post...) Part of me knows that it's easy to analyze when you're not the one without a job, and part of me hopes that HRW takes the gig - a rant fest of posts is sure to rain down as a result, which would be entertaining.
HRW - do what's best for you... Part of me hopes you could go to work for a tech company and wear jeans and flip-flops every day, but part of me hopes you get the offer and take it, if only for the quality content to follow.
