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  • How to Get Into Human Resources: The Ultimate Guide

    I recently received a reader email asking how to get into human resources without experience. It made me pause, because I had just responded to an email asking virtually the same thing less than five minutes before. So I dug into my email and looked at how many times I’ve had a conversation with someone…

  • How to Get a Job Without HR Experience

    Update: The post on how to get an HR job is live! Thanks to everyone who offered advice and support! Hi! I am glad you’re here today, because I need a little help. Well, actually, the HR profession needs a little help. You see, there’s a longstanding problem that I’m going to solve with your help.…

  • Essential HR Skills: Organization, Focus, and Negotiation

    Recently I ran across an old article on “essential” HR skills. It was an interesting read, and I wanted to break it down and show how it’s true (and, in some ways, maybe not so much). Today we’ll tackle the first half of them. Here’s the original list: Organization Multitasking Dealing with Gray Negotiation Communication…

  • Getting into HR? This Carnival’s For You

    This HR Carnival is focused on those getting into HR. The HR Carnival is a great opportunity to harness the brains of multiple people for a common purpose. This one is no different. For this edition, I asked each person to contribute an article that touches on some of the key skills, insights, and abilities…

  • Transitioning to an HR Career #nextchat

    Yesterday I joined the “transitioning to an HR career” #nextchat on Twitter. It’s basically a discussion held on Twitter where people talk about a specific topic, and yesterday i was all about how to prepare for and break into a career in HR. There was plenty of great discussion among the dozens of participants, but…

  • Just a Quick Note Today

    I’ve had a wild ride this weekend. A few weeks ago my sister-in-law passed me the Hunger Games series. I’m a big fiction and science fiction nut, but other things (see below) have kept me busy ever since she passed them over. I started the first book on Saturday and just finished it last night.…

  • HR Job Qualifications-Are There Any?

    I’m pretty sure that passion isn’t one of the HR job qualifications that people look for, otherwise we wouldn’t have need for the other posts in this series. If you missed them, we talked about: how to get an entry level HR job set up to fail: how we are sabotaging the next generation So…