In the real world, how would HR react?

Hey now! It WOULD get my attention. I would begin by drilling the Orc on how it knows of this woman’s qualifications, then send it down to city hall to contest my parking tickets.

If you are in HR currently you can go fuck yourself.

The initial part of the hiring process has been reduced to a predetermined formula.

I remember a time, not that long ago, that I spoke to a person, not a faceless LAZY computer driven committee.

Back then I was evaluated on my appropriate mode of dress, my professional manner, intelligence and firm grasp of English.

This won me. Time and time again.

It’s gotten so bad that the head of the department I’m aiming for can’t even be bothered to see me. “Go to the website” the hack at the counter says, before returning her eyes to the bottle of nail polish.

“The website”, ugh. It’s so bad that my wife, who knows what she’s talking about suggests that I scan the company’s mission statement and duplicate as many words from it as possible in my online application.

The “H” in HR has become a misnomer, at least as far as the hiring process is concerned.

No wonder that in more recent years members of the HR cabal are clearly unnerved when I enter their cave undaunted.

I failed to access your link on two different browsers from work (I won’t divulge the irony behind that), but here is a link that worked

Well, it’s a television commercial, after all.

To be able to deliver that paper in person the orc (and the elf) have to enter a secured building to which they (probably) do not have key cards (unless they already work there though that’s not as far-fetched as it might seem; I could tell you stories…). Failing that, they would be accompanied by an escort – and I doubt that the orc escorted the elf, or vice versa.

Finally, no one in HR wants a paper résumé any more.

@SecondHandStoke got this part right: The electronic copy of the résumé is going to be scanned by OCR or other means to pull and highlight key words of interest to the screeners before it is (maybe) passed on to hiring managers for further action.

Cute commercial; too unrealistic.

My wife works in HR, she has some stories. At one point she was responsible for hiring engineers and technical people and I asked her how they weeded out resumes….I did not like the answer. At all. The people who have to train, manage and work along side new hires need to have a big say in that process. Only those people are really qualified enough to tell who will be good for a job or not. She works with HR in office staff now.

Dealing with HR at work is no picnic either. Those departments are swollen with both young social justice warriors and overworked and burned out experienced folks who don’t have the energy to go to bat for you anymore.

Cute :)

I’d hire him for originality

I am immune to tricks and gimmicks. I would go strictly by the abilities and skills that match the opening.