Finding qualified people

[Hiring Manager]

Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble finding qualified people? I know I'm being a bit vague; however, in the past few months a number of people on staff have been poached. While not new, I'm having more and more trouble finding any decent replacement candidates.

Has anyone else noticed that the pool seems to be shrinking?

[Will you hire me?]

Qualified people for what industry? 

[lukeduke]

This is an interesting point as I read a report that said the same. However depends what sector / area you are in?

[Correct]

I agree. You are being vague.

[vague]

to fish for another journo story.

[Kapitan Obvious]

Too little information to discuss, really.

[NotHR]

Well I'm having trouble finding intelligent hiring managers, and such a vague post seems to prove it. You should start looking, acting and oh yes THINKING "outside of the square" which seems to be a favourite question of HR people in interviews but which they are incapable of understanding themselves. 

I am extremely jaded by HR people and really believe you should all be tarred and feathered and then left on the moon. Anyway if you give some honest information about how hiring really works, and maybe even make an effort then you might get some decent replies.

[no please]

i wouldn't leave HR people on the moon after tarring and feathering them.

it would cost way too much, plus they'd get to ride in a spaceship. Dallol in Ethiopia seems a cheaper, sounder alternative.

[NotHR]

Please Ethiopia already has a dictator don't send more over. Here's a compromise...get them to interview each other...hopefully they'll self destruct and leave us alone

[alternatively...]

i'd love to see a reality show where HR fellas are tarred, feathered and brought to mogadishu to interview local 'chiefs':

where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?
what are your strengths and weaknesses?
what would your past managers say about you?

then see the spectacular execution.

[titan]

I am totally qualified for F&B/Hospitality industry, have past experience in USA as asst. manager and some experience here for a small F&B  outlet. I left F&B for a different industry but I've recently been trying to get back into it and find that no one wants to even talk to me, it's as if that industry is reserved for anyone who's non Caucasian here unless that person is at the executive level and was re-located here by a higher corporate power. It's amazing because the service standards in most F&B outlets are low. I feel I could really bring better service to the situation but no one wants to take that chance so I remain in another industry.

[Understood...]

In Hong Kong and even Shanghai, I've encountered white bartenders.

Here, few.  And that was years ago (two Irish guys and one hot female Australian bartender at Molly Malone's, to be specific).

I think for a lot of poncy expats living a neo-colonial fantasy, being served by white people would upset their whole memsahib world.

[name]

I am totally qualified for F&B/Hospitality industry, have past experience in USA as asst. manager and some experience here for a small F&B  outlet. I left F&B for a different industry but I've recently been trying to get back into it and find that no one wants to even talk to me, it's as if that industry is reserved for anyone who's non Caucasian here unless that person is at the executive level and was re-located here by a higher corporate power. It's amazing because the service standards in most F&B outlets are low. I feel I could really bring better service to the situation but no one wants to take that chance so I remain in another industry.

I'm not so sure.  Where else in the world after you hand your credit card over the girl behind the till does she smile sweetly and ask "Master?"

[HRTossers]

maybe after being interviewed by you they weant away with their heads in the cloud.