Tag: Career Advice
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Xtreme HR Career Story Challenge
My friend Chris Ponder at XtremeHR is asking people to share their own career stories. I’ve talked about my HR career before, but I thought it would be fun to participate in his project as a showing of support for this great idea. The back story of the challenge. I was supposed to answer the questions…
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What do you do on the first days at a new job?
My friend Stephen started a new job this week. His post about first impressions is a fun read and will transport you back to the first days on the job. Click over and read it (should only take a minute or two). He asked for some tips/advice on how to spend those first days, and…
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Helping an HR Student
Recently I got an email from someone looking for some information on early HR career type stuff. Thought it might be interesting for someone else out there as well. Hello My name is Jay, I’m a french economics student, I’m in second year in college. I have a project to write about the job I…
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Free Engagement Webinar, Metrics, Failure, and More
Whew! There are so many great resources I’d like to share today. Let’s jump right in. Free employee engagement webinar These events by Workforce.com are fantastic. They have multiple sessions throughout the day and you can even get HRCI recert credits for some of the sessions. Definitely worth checking out! Make your age an afterthought…
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Perform Like a Rock Star (Book Review)
With my affinity for using “rock” as a verb, you just know I would love reading the book Perform Like a Rock Star (and still have time for lunch) by Orna Drawas. Receiving this book from my friends at the Cadence Group couldn’t have happened at a better time, because my new HR job is…
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Jobs in human resources management (My HR Career #3)
The two previous parts in this series dealt with HR careers and how to get a job in HR and human resource career opportunities. Today I will talk about my own move into a new human resources management job (yippee!). :-) My time in my first HR job taught me a lot about what I…
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Human resource career opportunities (My HR career #2)
In a recent post I talked about HR careers and how to get a job in HR. Today I’ll cover career opportunities for those in human resource jobs, specifically how to create career growth opportunities from within your job. How I grew my career opportunities I’ll go ahead and admit it: my first HR job…