Nowadays, you can dial an outside contractor who handles your benefits. If you have a problem or a question that falls in the cracks, you can stay on the line, or pound your head with the receiver. Remember Bob, who sat next to Mary and tried to hire as many family members as he could for the business. He's gone, too. Nowadays, if you want to get your foot in the door, you are likely to call a company that has the contract for recruiting, testing and hiring.
Many firms screen by telephone.
They also will not know you from a hole in the wall. And the field for outsourcing seems wide open. Law firms offer in-house training once performed by human resources workers. Security firms do background checks that companies once did routinely. As is the case for Allen's firm, one company will train another company's workers for a fee.