HR Besties: Quiet Vacationing
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Leigh's bad interview
- Cringe corporate speak: under the hood
- Hot topic: Quiet Vacationing
- What does it mean?
- Policies
- Leaders can be flexible
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a bad interview? |
| 0:08.6 | That was kind of rhetorical. |
| 0:10.4 | Yes. |
| 0:12.2 | Was that actually, or that was rhetorical. |
| 0:14.0 | Not a comment, but a quick question. |
| 0:15.3 | Have you ever had a bad interview? |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:18.4 | Well, I certainly have. |
| 0:20.6 | I've had a lot, actually. I've shared a number of them |
| 0:23.7 | on the socials, but one really sticks out for me, and you all will appreciate this. So, |
| 0:31.3 | guy phone screens me. We had already exchanged a couple of emails, and we have the phone screen. |
| 0:38.9 | And it is for a senior vice president of HR position. |
| 0:46.6 | And I, of course, ask some of my usual questions. |
| 0:52.5 | Why isn't this a CHRO position? |
| 0:56.3 | And, you know, is this the highest position of HR? |
| 0:59.8 | It's a small, it's like a startup, it's small, like 60 people or something. |
| 1:03.8 | And I remember he said, well, it was a CHRO position. |
| 1:09.7 | And I said, oh, so you downgraded it. |
| 1:14.6 | And he's like, well, I wouldn't call it a downgrade, right? |
| 1:17.6 | I mean, we totally respect, you know, HR and the people function, you know, just a bunch of lip service PS. |
| 1:23.6 | And I said, well, then why did you downgrade the position? |
| 1:28.4 | You know, who are the peers? |
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