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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I work in mnc & sme hr. To me the really put off part about SME is not they have no brand name but the fact they have no money to invest in IT programs and no budget to outsource low level admin work. Everything is like super manual & stuck in 1990.
Payroll using excel, leave, ot, timesheets all on paper or punch clock, no budget for ad or agencies, endless trip to MOM, ICA, IRAS, CPF over documentation, calculation, looking for paperwork. End up just working long hours on low productive paper work because everything is done manual. |
This kind of sme problem is not restricted to only hr department, others like finance, marketing, sales, logistics all suffer the same fate as well.
I work in a jap regional logistics department & sometimes interview people from sme. Most of the time is a waste of time because although they are call themself manager, director, specialist, they dont know how to use
SAP or other common platform like Descartes because these sme all cannot afford enterprise solutions. Most who are from sme seem to use excel to do everything under the sun and sometimes combine with some never heard before local software.
At first I try to tell myself not to be bias against people from sme background, but now I really don't bother, just wasting both parties' time only. The knowledge gap is too big between big companies and local sme experience.