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The unspoken elephant in the room

Andre

When people like myself post about the difficulties in getting jobs or visas, can most members here offer advice but not actually solve in practice for a fellow HR professional?  

I have never heard anyone here ever say that I will go now to speak to our CEO to identify a vacancy for you in our company & / or then start the sponsorship process. Getting you in and getting you  over, namely the very real thing to help out a fellow member. 

Can you do that, would you do that, or most importantly, do you have the authority to do that, namely to directly get someone a job and / or a visa to work in your own organisation?    

Go up to the very top if necessary and make it happen for someone, as that may be the only way that it could ever happen. .

Many people have also been honest with me as well and said that I am very sorry to hear, but I can't get or offer you a job. 

Does the barrier to that lie in not having the power vested in them to make that happen?    . 

Go out on a limb for someone.  . 

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  • Andre said:
    When people like myself post about the difficulties in getting jobs or visas, can most members here offer advice but not actually solve in practice for a fellow HR professional?

    Layla has been very nice in her response. I will be less so.

    No, we can not do that, for a variety of reasons. The first is that this wouldn't be good hiring practice. If we had a vacancy, we would advertise it. If we advertise it, you need to apply for it. If you are our preferred candidate and all other conditions required for sponsorship are met, then and only then would be talk about sponsorship. You don't get a free ride because you posted on a forum. An HR professional should understand that this is good practice and our job, here both at the CIPD and in this community, is to discuss and promote good practice.

    Second, if we did do that, for sponsorship or otherwise, this forum would quickly become a morass of "gizza job!" posts. It's the same reason we don't answer questions that sound suspiciously like assignments.

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  • Andre said:
    When people like myself post about the difficulties in getting jobs or visas, can most members here offer advice but not actually solve in practice for a fellow HR professional?

    Layla has been very nice in her response. I will be less so.

    No, we can not do that, for a variety of reasons. The first is that this wouldn't be good hiring practice. If we had a vacancy, we would advertise it. If we advertise it, you need to apply for it. If you are our preferred candidate and all other conditions required for sponsorship are met, then and only then would be talk about sponsorship. You don't get a free ride because you posted on a forum. An HR professional should understand that this is good practice and our job, here both at the CIPD and in this community, is to discuss and promote good practice.

    Second, if we did do that, for sponsorship or otherwise, this forum would quickly become a morass of "gizza job!" posts. It's the same reason we don't answer questions that sound suspiciously like assignments.

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