Posts Tagged ‘HR careers’
Why I love HR
I can’t believe it’s been five years since Fast Company magazine ran its infamous cover story “Why We Hate HR.” Can you imagine how it must feel to be the human resources person for that magazine? It would be hard not to take it personally. Over the years, HR continues to be the function people [...]
Should you take a job with a company that’s laying people off?
If you’re in HR, you know this better than anyone else: Companies that are laying people off — or that are in serious trouble — are often still hiring different people at the same time. Your first reaction to a job-opening announcement by a company like that might be to shrug and keep clicking through [...]
5 Ways social media could hurt your HR career
We love social media. It keeps us in touch with our friends in expected ways (photos of our cats and vacations, reports of our moods and who we just met for drinks). And unexpected ways. (I was really sick this weekend. But I wasn’t lonely in my misery. I posted my progress on Facebook as the [...]
The 140-character comeback strategy
The other day I was talking with a highly accomplished HR consultant, whose business took a real beating during the market downturn. Before long, our chat morphed into a focused discussion around her expertise, and I found myself taking notes. “Say,” I said, “how’s about we make this official, and I write an article based [...]
How to think through a “demotion”
Even when the job market is abysmal, we still like to think that all our hard work is getting us somewhere. We want to see a logical progression in our career choices — preferably in the direction of up — so it’s naturally disheartening when things go the other way. In interviewing HR leaders at [...]
Would you recognize yourself?
What’s great about going to conferences is that you get to meet people with whom you’ve had a long-distance relationship for years. I’m here in Atlanta at the Melcrum Employee Engagement Conference, and I got to meet my publisher at the Lenox Square Mall for coffee. Even though I’ve written four books for her, we [...]
Is being a people person really so silly?
What marks a rank HR beginner more than that person announcing with all wide-eyed enthusiasm: “I’m a people person!”? And thus the rite of passage commences. Eyes will roll. Someone will say right about then, “Just wait until you’ve been in HR for a year or so. You’ll change your tune.” Hear that hiss? That’s [...]
Land on your feet after a layoff
Naturally I always feel bad when I hear of yet another friend who has been laid off. But there’s something especially stinging when that friend happens to be in HR. They just seem to have an especially rough time recovering. While this is certainly no scientific study, I’ve just noticed many more months of treading [...]
