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Questions tagged [human-resources]

This tag is for anything related to that might typically involve the human resources department and involves a problem faced by a project manager.

This tag is for anything related to issues with hiring, termination, and other personnel problems that might typically involve the human resources department and involves a problem faced by a project manager. For questions about general team building and team management, see the team-building or team-management tags.

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Job Interview - how to recognize the right personality?

I am expecting to host my first job interview soon. We received lots of CVs for a PHP Programmer, and the best one that fits our needs was invited to the interview. The issue for me is that this is the first one, and I need to prepare carefully as…
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Resource is refusing to do a handover before leaving

There is a person on my team who is leaving in few weeks. He is flat-out refusing to provide a knowledge transfer to another team member. I've raised this with my manager who has spoken to HR. However, apart from releasing him early, it seems we've…
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Should I do reference checks on an experienced candidate?

We're looking at a candidate who has 20 years of experience (largely consulting) who we're thinking of hiring. Our hiring manager thinks we shouldn't check references saying things like "It's not prudent to check references for someone with over 20…
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When a full-time project member is better than a part-time one?

Under what circumstances a full-time member of a project team is more preferred than a part-time one? And vise versa.
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What objective criteria can be used in staffing a project with engineers?

Being a project manager what objective criteria do you use when recruiting new technical engineers to your project? Typically their resumes are full of magic buzz words. How to select the right person, objectively?
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To train or to buy knowledge, skills, and abilities?

When a project needs specific knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) there are, in most cases, two options: either to train existing project team members or to buy new ones on the market. What are pros and cons of each option?
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Is it your priority to use job evaluating criteria?

Do you use grid and scientific ways to objectively conclude, based on facts, that your employees meet the goals of your organization?
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What are the general guidelines a project manager should follow to recruit the right person?

Since our HR manager is out of station, I have been given the responsibility to recruit people for our hardware design team. I do not have any experience of recruiting people. Posting a job on linkedin, resulted in spamming with 25 CVs in a day.…
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How should I evaluation a candidate in a interview?

Let me go straight to my problems. We currently work on a web project and planned to develop a mobile version someday. But, today my big boss came to my desk and ask me to do interview a candidate who has 2 years of experience in Flutter to prepare…
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Employee Being Disrespectful by not following HR Policy

I am a HR Head in an IT company. One of our employees was having some issues regarding his leave and some had been solved immediately. He was unsatisfied with solution and I asked him, many times, to meet me for further clarifications. He is…
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