I know many bankers have a profound hate for SEC, but my god...... HR people are the worst. They make the recruiting process harder than it's supposed to be, just so they can justify their fees/ salary. If by any chance you are an HR person on this forum, GO F* YOURSELF.
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Based, fuck those useless SJW Karens
who hurt you?
I wonder who might have hurt him.
HR aren't the ones cutting you, bankers are.
I was going to say something similar (making the assumption here that this person hates HR because they were rejected...so the rest of my reply assumes that). For some reason people love to hate HR and direct their anger at them. It is easier than thinking there might actually be something wrong with your resume/background/etc that makes you less qualified than others. It is also easier to blame them than those bankers you look up to, because clearly they want you to work with them but HR is getting in the way.
I know it sounds harsh, but you’ll get much further in your career if you look at ways you can improve (networking, your resume, etc) rather than pointing the finger at others.
Look, you may be right that some of the stuff HR does is crazy, but that won’t change anything, and almost always if you have a solid background you’ll get an interview (especially if you network) so focus on that.
I get what you're saying and agree. One of the issues I see with HR as it relates to candidates I have put forward is when they do not let the candidate know after a super day or something along those lines. I know you kind of get the hint a few days after a super, but I think they should be emailing in any case. That is one of a few issues I see with them from a recruiting standpoint. The candidate worked hard to get to the sd, I shouldn't be the one reaching out to HR to relay the message to my referral. I have let my former HR team know that. Some of these kids have other exploding offers etc.
I went to b school to switch career paths and experienced what it is like on the candidate side and I understand the frustration that some here have with them. It reflects poorly on the organization when HR acts in certain ways. There are two firms that I was in final rounds with that I didn't get, both recruiters reached out and gave me in-depth feedback and one of the bankers who got me there emailed HR with me in cc asking for her and I to connect at x point in time because he thinks there may be an opening. Both of those firms obviously left a great impression on me. One BB and one EB, so not always a scale thing. The bank I chose to join also seemed to have solid HR/recruiting people. The general apathy of some of them is a turn off.
All of your points still remain - OP should focus on what they can control. HR is not really the reason you would get dinged or get an interview to begin with. The issue is what happens sometimes when the ball is in HR's court.
Recently signed an offer. My resume was handed to the Sr. Analyst (this is for ER) 12 days ago. Said Analyst reached out to me the same day. Call was set up for a time 6 days ago. Talked with Director of research the next day (Friday). Superday set up on Monday along with a case study that I had 48 hours to do. Follow up conversations the day the case study was completed.
From first conversation to offer it took 13 days. How was this possible? Because not a single HR person was involved lol.