Process of recruitment: Here's a better idea

Ah, love it when HR asks for clarity on a role from the hiring manager and gets told "I'm too busy to have a meeting." (About someone who will make you less busy?)

I've written a lot about process of recruitment and hiring over the years. I want to believe that HR is getting better and closer to that "seat at the table," but in reality at most orgs it's becoming less human. I'm not sure exactly why the same department hires and monitors the firing of people, but maybe I'm somehow naive. By and large, though, what …