My worst job experience - Human Resources Director Scotiabank Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Probably the only thing I can think is there are very good few professionals that really want to make a change. However there is a huge lack of empowerment.

Cons

Where to start? I was hire with very high expectations about my role, upper management said to me that their objective was to change how HR was helping our employees and how important it was the change. Since I joined I saw a terrible lack of empowerment at every level, people just don’t take decisions because they are afraid of having not support. The IT tools inside are way to old and complicated, I was never able to have a cell phone that worked and I was a having a Director role, my onboarding was terrible and at the end they let me go because the project I was hired for did not happen at all due to a lack of planning and budget issues they did not plan. I can say for sure this is the worst experience in my 20 years of career.

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Cons

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