HR departments MAY have to alter their standards to get employees into their companies

After seeing some articles that have come out recently, and having chatted with a few people on the subject, it would appear that hiring managers looking to fill positions within today's companies MAY have to change their mindset to get the best people for the job. Company heads complain that they can't find qualified prospects to fill technical positions, yet HR departments are disqualifying good applicants based on less then perfect credit ratings or length of breaks in employment. Something has to give here.

Hiring managers could be VERY selective about who they hired when the recent recession was at it's worst. There were 50 or 100 applicants for every open position, and HR people could be extremely choosy about who they called back for an interview.  But now, many people who WERE looking for a job at that time have either gotten work elsewhere, retired, or simply given up looking for any work at all. The pool of good job candidates is smaller then it once was, and many of those people HAVE been unemployed for lengthy periods. That doesn't mean they should be discounted outright, without even so much as a callback for an interview.

If corporate execs and managers want good people working for them, they need to hold their HR department's feet to the fire, and make sure EVERY good candidate at least gets a shot at getting hired.

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