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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

736.0. "Stay within your own branch?" by WEDOIT::BELDIN () Fri Mar 03 1989 16:11

    
    Has anyone heard of any "upper-level directive" for organizations
    to hire within their own branch of DEC before going outside that
    branch?  That is, if an organization falls under the Field Service
    umbrella of the company, they are forced to hire from within that
    branch before going to, say, Manufacturing or Engineering.  I was
    told by a recruiter that this situation "may continue for a while."
    
    Does this sound like a corporate-wide strategy or like something
    that is within one plant or division?
    
    Rick Beldin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
736.1		SCARY::M_DAVIS	Coffee, please. Irregular.	`Fri Mar 03 1989 16:17`	7
	I haven't heard anything such as that. I'd guess that if a certain section of the company, say Manufacturing, were overstaffed and had people looking for jobs, it would be rude to hire in someone from another organization without looking at the "excess" folks in Manufacturing first... but I've not heard of any directive. Marge
736.2		TOLKIN::KIRK	Matt Kirk, 291-8891	`Fri Mar 03 1989 17:17`	3
	The last time I was looking (last summer) there were req's open for MSB-only or SEG-only. Most of the MSB-only req's were actually LTN-only since Argonaut had just been cancelled.
736.3		COOKIE::WITHERS	You know you can't memorize Zen	`Fri Mar 03 1989 17:57`	4
	Well, not to disagree with Marge, but that's the directive I've heard recently about hiring in CSCs - that you should hire from field service first. BobW
736.4	My parachute would be flame-colored!!	BAUCIS::WELCH		`Fri Mar 03 1989 18:59`	18
	re: < Note 736.1 by SCARY::M_DAVIS "Coffee, please. Irregular." > < < I haven't heard anything such as that. I'd guess that if a certain < section of the company, say Manufacturing, were overstaffed and had < people looking for jobs, it would be rude to hire in someone from < another organization without looking at the "excess" folks in < Manufacturing first... but I've not heard of any directive. < < Marge I hope we are not rejecting better qualified job applicants from other DEC groups, who themselves may be 'excess' (and therefore just as entitled to preference), simply because it might be "rude" to hire them. -KpW
736.5	HEADCOUNT	JAWS::DIAZ	CMG/CDG/SAMG	`Fri Mar 03 1989 19:33`	10
	It all has to do with headcount. Group managers are looking closely at not increasing the headcount since they have been given very clear orders from the top, and I would venture that in the case a group decreases the headcount they probably can't increase it again. In the case the slot has a high priority my guess is that, in order not to increase hadcount in one organization, they have to hire from within. Octavio
736.6		SCARY::M_DAVIS	Coffee, please. Irregular.	`Fri Mar 03 1989 19:45`	10
	re .4: So far as I know, we in CSSE are not restricted as far as where we can look internally to hire... we have, however, been asked to get v.p. signature on external hires... Marge p.s. Bob, the fact that I wasn't aware doesn't mean it doesn't exist! ;^)
736.7	Mastery of patience leads to mastery of all	WHYVAX::SAVAGE	Neil @ Spit Brook	`Mon Mar 06 1989 17:40`	4
	My experience agrees with Octavio's description of the situation in .5. I did succeed in hiring outside my group (which is Corporate User Publications) but I had to have a convincing case and be patient while the powers deliberated.