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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Companies make some weird hiring decisions sometimes when it comes to dealing with internal candidates. I was up for a role as an external candidate earlier this year on a team that a colleague of mine worked on. It was a perfect fit, I had previously worked with the company until Covid devastated that industry and I was able to take over that role right away. The two hiring managers really liked me and we developed a good rapport. The decision came down to me and an internal candidate who had been at the company for 20 years in a number of roles but was not really qualified for the position. I don't know what the motivating factor was but I was not selected. My buddy is still currently doing the work of two people for the last few months because the person hired isn't capable of getting things done and is still "training" and learning the necessary skills. It seems like a really awful decision and I think it was recommended by HR instead of the hiring manager. I still keep in contact with the Manager and he has recommended me for two other roles over the last two months and made an introduction for me with an outsider vendor that was also recently hiring.
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HR doesn't generally make the final hiring decision, anyone who blames HR is passing the buck.