HR Besties: Resumes, Resumes, Resumes!
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Reddit HR Horror Story
- Cringe corporate speak: Right?
- Hot topic: All things resumes
- Resume review scams
- Addresses, pictures and other red flags
- Quality over quantity
- Yay or nay: cover letters
- Questions/Comments
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Tune in to "HR Besties," a business, work and management podcast hosted by Leigh Elena Henderson (HRManifesto), Ashley Herd (ManagerMethod) and Jamie Jackson (Humorous_Resources), where we navigate the labyrinth of corporate culture, from cringe corporate speak to toxic leadership. Whether you're in Human Resources or not, corporate or small business, we offer sneak peeks into surviving work, hiring strategies, and making the employee experience better for all. Tune in for real talk on employee engagement, green flags in the workplace, and how to turn red flags into real change. Don't miss our chats about leadership, career coaching, and takes from work travel and watercooler gossip. Get new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, follow us on socials for the latest updates, and join us at our virtual happy hours to share your HR stories.
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| 0:00.0 | I was the HR director for a department store a few years back. |
| 0:10.3 | I received a notification one morning for my IT department. |
| 0:13.5 | The cameras had caught motion roughly around 1 a.m. |
| 0:16.3 | And that they were forwarded me to the video because it had to do with someone from my department. |
| 0:21.8 | Super confused, of course, I hit play and started watching. |
| 0:26.0 | It was our store manager that entered the store, but he wasn't alone. |
| 0:31.3 | He was with an unknown person. |
| 0:33.2 | And then they proceeded to do the deed on every square inch of available display and shelving. |
| 0:41.6 | Oh, my. |
| 0:42.6 | Shelving. |
| 0:43.5 | Shelving, yeah. |
| 0:44.5 | It sounds painful. |
| 0:45.9 | Every employee was aware of the camera, so it really shocked me that he just seemed to forget |
| 0:51.5 | like they turned off. |
| 0:52.5 | It was the most awkward termination process, |
| 0:55.6 | but it got even more awkward when he filed for unemployment. |
| 1:01.0 | Did they have a hearing? |
| 1:03.7 | A phone hearing, though, because they don't want to do that in person, right? |
| 1:07.8 | Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. |
| 1:08.8 | Can you imagine? |
| 1:10.8 | Have you all ever done that? |
| 1:13.8 | Your faces, you're like, what? |
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