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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8040026" data-attributes="member: 2525">Wanna bet it doesn't? It will pull candidates with 7 years HR experience who are good at bs'ing that they "enacted change" by spinning some hiring numbers  and some corporate project background lecturing about diversity, with no follow-up to see if that meant actual change happened at their prior companies beyond shuffling some deck chairs between a handful of similar companies. I don't think it will pull anyone who is actually good at enacting real change.I even think "7 years experience in HR" might be a bad way to go on this.  7 years experience as a professional, yes. But in HR specifically? I am not so sure.If what they're trying to address is making a fundamental change in their company, then probably the best recruit to do that is outside of the standard human resources field.If I were to recruit for this position and intend to really make a fundamental change in the company, the first thing I would do is find out what other company has successfully changed their corporate culture in a similar way, and ask them how they did it. I wouldn't put an ad out through the same channels I've always used, using the same kind of language I've always used, and the same internal sources putting the word out to their friends and on social media like they've always used. I would want to go well outside of all of that language and channels.The comparison I used for DC Comics is a good one, though it's not the same. They had an issue with marketing. For decades they used the same marketing corporate-speak in their recruiting language, hired the same types of people for their marketing from the same group of colleges and the same experience levels in marketing at related companies and fields (or else hired from within). And for years they just got more of the same, which was slowly spiraling in the wrong direction.So they finally went to something completely different. Someone who was not internal, not the same background, and not traditional marketing. A guy who ran his own company who was the lead editor on a major news source which was sometimes an ally and sometimes a critic of their company who knew everyone in the industry but was not directly part of the industry itself. And that guy enacted real change at the company, after decades of the same stuff being cycled through over and over again.That kind of thing is probably what WOTC needs. But I don't think they are getting the best odds of finding that kind of person using this kind of ad. I think this ad is more targeted at getting more of what they've always had at the company. It will likely be a lateral hire from a related field who will feel comfortable to them and not want to shake things up but will instead integrate nicely into what they already have and then make only incremental small surface-level changes to be able to say change might happen but who doesn't really change much of anything.</blockquote>

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