Hi paul,

Quite franly, I think the situation is much worse for IT HR
department: they have no purpose anymore and they slowly
disappearing.

One of the HR traditional roles was also to find the best match for a
specific job.  The late Internet *Revolution* (which is nothing but an
economical phenomenon catalized by a technology ), saw tons of
untrained and most of the time unemployed people get into IT HR
departements with poor or unadapted skillset to evaluate technical
proficiency.  As a consequence of their unability to determine precise
profiles for profile job description, the limits between typical
candidate profiles you would usually have in the IT department is
getting blurrier and blurrier: By lack of competence, HR current
people are forced to set up *put-all-technical-jargon-in-one* job
descriptions and interviews to find out candidates by trial-and-error
method.  Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see job descriptions where HR
people would ask all at once programmer, DBA ,analyst profiles...Of
course, most of the time they fail and feed the IT labor force with
technical people at their image: *unskilled and unaware of it* (after
the name of the study posted on F PASCAL dbdebunk).

In fact, IT HR departments are getting poorer in all senses of the
word.  As a consequence, IT corporate culture is now favoring
outsourcing entire HR departments and prefer working with lucrative
head hunting agencies that are doing even worse than the latter
because motivated by productivity criterias.

HR are a part of the equation that explain the decay of IT industry in
general and database industry in general.

He wants an answer from one kind of technocrat and you tell him to go
see another kind of technocrat.  Either way, it's BS.  If he feels
strongly about it, he should go over the heads of Human Remains, to an
executive who is high up enough to understand the ulterior purpose of
that department (which likely no one in HR knows as canny management
will make sure that no one capable of knowing is hired into that
department).

    Opinions are a dime a dozen or cheaper.  See a lawyer.

    You have just described a use, so what is the problem?  Having
said that, the law might forbid you to do so.  See a lawyer.

    Unless illegal.

    The area of law has people who are expert in it, much as the
computer field does.  See one of these experts.

    That sounds fair.

     Quite.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
    I have preferences.
    You have biases.
    He/She has prejudices.