Why is it so hard to hire an HR business partner?
Open requisitions stay unfilled for months because the market lacks candidates who feel like a good fit. This prolonged search leaves open roles sitting vacant while generalists struggle to break through.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Pivoting into people ops
- 2Moving into total rewards
- 3Getting out of HR altogether
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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