HR work weird hours?

Did anyone else notice this? This is not an isolated case. I noticed that a lot of HR people work weird hours. More than once have I receive responses, interview invites or travel arrangements from HR at 9pm to midnight. Just out of curiousity, why are they still working at that time of the day?

 

i received some around 01:00-02:00. i guess the banks let some oversea staff or temp to screen CVs

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KB24TD21:
HR at my BB were still at work around 10:00 - 11:00, at their desk working. They work quite a lot of hours
doing what? lol.. I started noticing this when I would email this HR contact at one firm and she never replies to any email i sent however early until past 8pm and from that point on would email back and forth until midnight.
 

I felt necessary to post. There's a difference between HR (the ones who calls you and gives you the details, etc about the offer) and Recruiters. 2 good friends of mine are recruiters at bulge bracket firms, one of which is a top 3 (GS, MS, JPM).

Their hours vary - usually its about 8:30 to 9:00 but during recruiting seasons she has pulled all nighters and worked until 1-2:00am consistently on several things

1) Recruiting roadshows are global - they have to coordinate 2) You have like 5-6 recruiting people, maybe 8-10 max coordinating a WHOLE country ...

this past season for SA - my friend had a total of 6000 resumes and they interviewed over 300 applicants.

That is coordinating 3 rounds of interviews with bankers, travel arrangements, hotel, expenses etc

It is a lot of sht work. I used to be unappreicative as well but after finding this out - I think they deserve some credit

 
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InassessableTangents:
I felt necessary to post. There's a difference between HR (the ones who calls you and gives you the details, etc about the offer) and Recruiters. 2 good friends of mine are recruiters at bulge bracket firms, one of which is a top 3 (GS, MS, JPM).

Their hours vary - usually its about 8:30 to 9:00 but during recruiting seasons she has pulled all nighters and worked until 1-2:00am consistently on several things

1) Recruiting roadshows are global - they have to coordinate 2) You have like 5-6 recruiting people, maybe 8-10 max coordinating a WHOLE country ...

this past season for SA - my friend had a total of 6000 resumes and they interviewed over 300 applicants.

That is coordinating 3 rounds of interviews with bankers, travel arrangements, hotel, expenses etc

It is a lot of sht work. I used to be unappreicative as well but after finding this out - I think they deserve some credit

This is accurate, recruiters are actually rather touchy about being mistaken for HR people. Also, it looks like your friends are campus recruiters. There are also internal recruiters that act like headhunters, trying to poach senior level hitters from other firms.

 

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