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HR department asked me to fill this sheet. Any inputs?

2 pointsby chamodaalmost 6 years ago
I&#x27;m a lead engineer at a software company. HR department asked me to fill this sheet to document general requirements for designations. I&#x27;m having a lot of mixed feelings with this so I&#x27;m going post to it here.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1Ow7j9LWu--CISFTkYLRFJYCCKtmxVLkwBBEmGSZPMas&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing

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bediger4000almost 6 years ago
Not sure of the context, but it looks like the HR department doesn&#x27;t realize that humans are not a single, 32-letter category. Those are small blanks to fill in given what they&#x27;re asking.<p>1. They&#x27;re going to get bad answers just because of the ergonomics of the form<p>2. If they&#x27;re going to use this as hard-and-fast requirements the jobs, they won&#x27;t get anything approaching a match. They&#x27;ve asked for 7 qualifications for each level. It&#x27;s hard to fit a human to 3 qualifications since none of us is really all that regular, they won&#x27;t get a good match on all seven.<p>3. They will end up with an incomprehensible mish-mash if they put together more than 3 peoples&#x27; answers to this.<p>My thoughts are to not waste too much time on this. Fill it in with stereotypes, because it&#x27;s not going to be useful to HR, and no matter what you as an individual do with it, it will become garbage when HR is done with it.
HelloNursealmost 6 years ago
In your place, I&#x27;d explain to HR that each department in your company will write requirements for individual job postings and interview candidates, so there&#x27;s no place for vague requirements of this kind. They should focus on basic personality and career assessment, not specific skills and qualities.