Chapter 315 - Tengda’s Recruiting Standards (1/2)

When Tengda was started, Assistant Xin was also the one who took care of recruitment and finances. The administrative team only worked under her.

However, as the company expanded, Assistant Xin became unable to cope. She very smoothly split the administrative team into the human resources and finance departments.

The recruitment jobs and other tasks related to human resources were handed over to the human resources department, or the HR department for short.

“Call Little Hao over, then. I’ll brief Little Hao about future recruitment drives.”

“Alright.” Assistant Xin nodded and left.

Pei Qian leaned back in his chair, falling into deep thought.

Now that he thought about it, he had belittled the HR department before. That might have been his mistake. He might have done this because of some prejudice that he had against that department.

Some people said that HR departments in big companies could be compared to espionage or royal guards of ancient times.

HR departments were often heavily involved in big company scandals, such as forcing a sick employee to retire, firing without giving compensation, and the like.

Although the boss would definitely have been the one who thought about forcing sick employees to retire, the HR department would have been the one who executed this thought. Naturally, they became scapegoats. At the same time, HR departments would pick on people’s flaws and reduce the offering salary as much as possible during interviews. Ordinarily, they would also invite outsiders to run courses for employees and order professionals around. That was why Pei Qian found them extremely annoying. In his former life, Pei Qian was an ordinary employee. Of course, he felt disgusted at the thought of the HR department.

However, Pei Qian finally realized at that moment that he had been wrong.

At the end of the day, the HR department did the boss’ dirty work.

Whether an HR department was good or bad did not depend solely on its staff’s professional integrity. Instead, it depended more on the type of company and boss the HR department was working for.

Heartless companies could make use of their HR departments to reduce their employees’ salaries. However, Boss Pei could also use his HR department to achieve his aim of shortlisting slackers!

If he could train his HR department well so that they could offer candidates higher salaries than they asked for and select candidates who did not enjoy working, wouldn’t they be doing Boss Pei a huge favor?

Thus, Pei Qian decided to meet this Little Hao to impart Tengda’s spirit to him or her and clarify Tengda’s recruitment model.

After a few minutes, someone knocked on the door.

Hao Yun entered the office looking a little nervous.

She was a lady of average height and looks, who looked to be in her twenties. Her face was round, her eyes were large, and she looked like an ordinary employee in the company. She was also much younger than Pei Qian had imagined.

However, this was normal. After all, when Pei Qian hired his first batch of employees, he chose a bunch of newbies without any experience.

Thus, most people in the management level of Tengda were young.

Little Hao did not look as overbearing as Pei Qian expected HR staff to be. He had a pretty good first impression of her.

What’s more, Little Hao did not seem to have much of a presence. Pei Qian tried very hard to recall who she was, but he could not recall when he had ever seen her in the office before. Obviously, she normally blended into the background.

“Boss Pei, are you looking for me?” Hao Yun asked timidly.

“Yes, take a seat. I have a very important task for you.”

Hao Yun sat opposite Pei Qian, feeling slightly apprehensive.

All this time, she had been receiving instructions from Assistant Xin. Now, she was talking to an even more senior NPC. Naturally, she was finding it hard to adjust.

“The HR department is very important. I’m sure you know that. Tell me the main responsibilities of the HR department,” said Pei Qian.

Hao Yun quickly nodded. “Yes, Boss Pei. The HR department is supposed to assess all applicants’ potential based on their experience and merits. At the same time, we are supposed to ensure the working environment is relaxed and harmonious, and employees’ passion for their work doesn’t

die.”

Hao Yun said all of these things in a single breath. She wanted to briefly describe the HR department’s job scope, but since Boss Pei did not stop her, she continued until he did.

Pei Qian remained silent for a while and said, “That’s exactly right!”

He wanted to be polite and play up the importance of the human resources department. However, he had no idea what to say. That was why he allowed Hao Yun to explain her job scope first.

Hao Yun ended up answering the question so well that Pei Qian felt bad stopping her.

“All in all, the HR department is extremely important. That’s why I hope that your department would better understand Tengda’s culture. It would help you to recruit new employees and manage current ones.

“At the moment, you’re shortlisting candidates based on their resumes. How’s that going? What do you think about it?”

Hao Yun perked up.

Coincidentally, this was among her responsibilities!

“We first read their resumes once through. Since we have received many resumes and we don’t need to hire many people, we can afford to be a bit stricter with our shortlisting process.

“First, we shortlist applicants based on their educational background, the school they graduated from, their work experience, their project experience, and other similar factors. This would filter out over eighty percent of applicants.

“After that, we would invite the remaining applicants to be interviewed.

“There would be two rounds of interviews. The first round would be conducted by the department head, and the second round would be conducted by the HR department.

“Finally, we would discuss the starting salary with the shortlisted applicants and select those that can agree with the company on a suitable figure.”

Hao Yun briefly explained the entire recruitment process.

As Pei Qian listened, his frown grew deeper. This was the process that ordinary HR departments would go through. However, Boss Pei would definitely not be satisfied with it!

Most applicants with weaker educational backgrounds, less work experience, or who graduated from lesser schools would be filtered out at the resume stage. Wouldn’t that greatly reduce the chances of Tengda hiring slackers?!

If things went on like this, the company would be filled with hard workers. Wouldn’t Boss Pei have difficulty eating and sleeping then?

This could not go on!

Pei Qian remained silent for a while and said, “The process sounds very good, but… I don’t think it fits Tengda’s recruiting standards.”

Hao Yun looked slightly nervous. “Ah, is that so? Boss Pei, what do you think the process should look like?”

Hao Yun quickly took out a notebook and prepared to take down notes. Pei Qian was very satisfied with obedient employees like Hao Yun. He began to explain to her the employee-selection criteria that he thought about earlier.

“Tengda wants to hire unique talents!

“How can we belittle others just because they have weaker educational backgrounds, insufficient work experience, bad resumes, and graduated from lesser schools?

“We can’t do that!

“We have to view everyone who submits their resumes equally. We have to give them a chance to compete fairly!

“That’s why we have to stop shortlisting applicants based on their resumes. We will accept anyone who submits their resumes and seeks a job.” As Hao Yun scribbled in her little notebook, she became filled with confusion. “Huh? But Boss Pei, that’ll be too much work. We can’t finish interviewing them all.”

Pei Qian shook his head. “You don’t have to interview every single one of them. We’ll look for a suitable time and venue to host a closed-book, written examination for all of them.

“Then, we can invite the top-scoring candidates to be interviewed.”

Hao Yun still looked confused. “That’ll still require a lot of money. In order to host a large-scale examination like that, we would need to rent a venue, set the questions, hire invigilators and markers, and so on.

“As more people apply, we would have to spend more money. Given how passionate people currently are about applying to Tengda for a job, I’m afraid hosting a large-scale written examination like that would not be cheap…”