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Get the inside scoop on exciting corporate anf entrepreneuership careers in this new Vault guide to human resources offering a detailed account of how HR fits in an organization, career paths, getting hired, education, salaries, professional development, typical HR functions and roles, and more. ... Read more

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The HR Professional's Career Guide recognizes and honors the human resource (HR) profession as a distinguished career path with its own set of challenges, opportunities and achievements to celebrate along the way. This book fills a gap in the literature and offers much-needed guidance, information, statistics, and tools for HR professionals who are intent on building their own long-term career paths. ... Read more

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Great!
I think this book offers really good advice and guidance for people entering or considering the HR career.

A real guide
This book differs from the rest of the getting started in HR books. This book is not a how-to resource for running an HR department, but a real framework for pursuing an HR career. Most others sort of talk about what HR is and give generic advice for students. This book has some of that, but also looks at real-world people who by accident or design choose HR, or are chosen by it, further alon in their work life and need to build a career path in the discipline. Along with the content are chapter endin interviews with real, successful HR professionals that bring the subject of the chapter into focus.

This book enables you to see the trees in the forest!
Every once in awhile, a book is crafted that helps a reader see the smaller picture in context of the larger picture. This is such a book. Jeanne Palmer does a terrific job at walking the reader through decision trees around HR career strategies and tactics. She makes it easy to understand the "who, what, when, where, why and hows"of the Human Resources world, and makes plain what is often seen as complicated or elusive. In my world of executive search, she has given me greater understanding ofthe HR professionals with whom we interface on a daily basis. I would recommend this book to anyone who works in the human capital industry.

In a nutshell, this is a career map for HR professionals
This book provides inspiration and practical information for readers at almost any stage of their careers. It is about cultivating an HR career over time. The chapters examine core competencies and key characteristics and how to: tell the stories behind career choices and accomplishments; lay out and track an HR career plan; plan your next career move well in advance; build a powerful network; overcome career missteps; come to terms with what you can't change and mitigate hazards to career prospects; successfully engage in senior-level interviews; and prepare for unexpected changes that offer new opportunities. Includes interviews with senior HR executives that provide lessons learned and insights. Appendices offer a map of career paths linked with qualifications and a list of valuable websites. Viewing this book as a senior HR professional and consultant (co-founder, Stern & Associates, hrconsultant.com) I wish such a book was available to me when I was first getting started. A must read for every HR practitioner and those aspiring to be one.

Career counselling for HR professionals
With so many HR professaionals helping others with their careers, this book enables such people to look after their own career through self assessment and interviews of successful people in HR.Surveying the HR landscape today, Jeanne Palmer enables you to map out your own career, assess what you need to get to your next goal, and how best to conduct yourself in acheiving it (including how to avoid common pitfalls and how to recovery from them).The Human Resource Professional's Career Guide is of particular help to those individuals who are at the beginning and all the way to the later stages of their career.For those who are at the end of their career or teach, it is an excellent tool for mentoring. ... Read more

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The role of human resources in business has increased in recent years and has evolved from an exclusively in-house function to become its own industry providing a complete range of HR services. Whether in-house or third party, HR is the field of personnel recruitment and administration of a company’s relations with its employees. This new insider guide focuses on the role of HR as it crosses industries; it gives an in-depth view of the range of responsibilities involved and the opportunities to be had as an HR specialist.

This guide has all the latest on:

• Industry trends, including the growing need for people with business backgrounds
  
• Which industries are the hot spots for HR folks
  
• The different kinds of jobs available, along with salary ranges for each, from labor relations manager to recruiter to VP of HR
  
• The pros and cons of working in HR
  
• How you can get your foot in the door and what to do when you land that interview
  
• Recommended resources and more!

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The book is okay.
The book gives you the inside look into human resources-roles,
certification, evolution of hr, and the practice.This book
is rather thin for its price and one part of the book that I really don't like is it tells you alot of info, but doesn't
explain why.Also, there is no info on graduate school for
the human resources program.I'm a career changer from technology and I'm still confused at the end of the book.

plenty of data
If you're the kind of person who wants more than just quotes from insiders (although this one has plenty of that too), and are looking for stats and figures to paint a picture for why you'd want to get into a given industry, then this is the guide you're looking for. I have read plenty of articles here and there on the HR industry, but this guide gives that extra layer of data that gives you a good idea of what's going on overall, where the industry is moving to and where you need to focus and improve in order to stay ahead of the curve and get into a company that will allow you to advance in your career. I've been doing HR/recruiting for a couple years now, for a small financial services firm. Now that i've read this guide, I feel that much more ready to move onto bigger and better, specifically to a larger firm in the same industry. I'm taking wetfeet's advice and enrolling in some business courses in order to back up my HR experience. I'm also glad to see the real people profiles and days in the life to better gauge if a larger firm is indeed the right place for me (i now think it is! and am more comfortable with the idea having read the guide).

MBA and HR
This guide was extremely helpful in laying out the groundwork for my plan of attack in getting a job as an HR Manager at a top HR firm dealing in the IT industry. I am in final stages of interviewing and, with your advice, am really working my business administration and IT background as well as the HR-related courses I've taken over the past several months. It seems to be working very well! Fingers crossed, but I think I'll be getting an offer next week! Thanks! ... Read more

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"This collection of original essays, written by experienced human resource professionals, is a major contribution to the maturing field of organizational career planning and development. Collectively, the contributors stress the need to integrate employee career interests with the current and anticipated personnel requirements of their employers, and they describe a variety of strategies and programs for accomplishing this objective. . . . Career development specialists, personnel managers, human resource planners, and students of the career development field will find this book to be of considerable interest." Choice ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 7463 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sustaining success in human resources: key career self-management strategies.
Author: William M. Kahnweiler
Publication: Human Resource Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29Issue: 4Page: 24(8)

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Presenting the range of jobs available, ways into the sector and with details of the various routes to professional qualification, this text is designed as a starting point for anyone wanting to begin a career in the field of human resources management. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Thomson Gale on July 20, 2007. The length of the article is 2998 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Career schools.(HUMAN RESOURCES & TRAINING)(Table)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 20, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29Issue: 15Page: 53(4)

Article Type: Table

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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 812 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Creating an effective recognition program.(Careers)(Human resource management)
Author: Max Messmer
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Page: 13(2)

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This digital document is an article from CMA Management, published by Society of Management Accountants of Canada on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 718 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Six mistakes to avoid when using social media to advance your career.(human resources)
Author: Peter Jeewan
Publication: CMA Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: Society of Management Accountants of Canada
Volume: 84Issue: 2Page: 15(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Human Resource Management Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Although many of the principal milestones of current career research are of U.S. origin, the influence of European contributions slowly grows. Drastic changes of careers and career contexts surfacing in the early 1990s have renewed the interest in career issues. In addition, new concepts such as the boundaryless career propelled the European career discourse and triggered career studies in Europe. Despite the difficulty to give a comprehensive picture because of the differences within Europe and the many possible measures of comparison, this paper identifies three major characteristics of European career research and practice: (1) Substantial heterogeneity in terms of career practice; (2) The use of theoretical concepts usually coming from social sciences in career research; (3) The emphasis on social structures in conceptualizing influencing factors of career. After identifying and explaining these characteristics, the paper discusses their implications for human resource management research and practice. ... Read more

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Outlines human resource management careers, the type of education they require, the employment outlook, the salaries, and the variety of jobs available. ... Read more

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For those interested in a career in human resources, this WetFeet Insider Guide explores how the field has evolved; the hiring outlook and industry trends; the different jobs available, with salary ranges for each; the pros and cons of working in HR; and how to shine in their interviews. ... Read more

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Very Insightful
This book really gives a great in depth idea of the broad spectrum of Human Resources.The only downfall I personally found was that the book seems to be a little disorganized.For example, the book didn't hit the same aspects for every HR position mentioned in each section.Regardless, by the end of the book every topic was well covered. ... Read more

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A907673. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Turnover of the Air Force civil engineering (CE) officers is becoming increasingly important, as levels of CE Captains consistently decreases. Allenand Katz (1986) identified three career orientations of engineers based on their job preference-project, professional, and management engineers. Shepard (1958)suggested a dual-ladder promotion system to meet the cancer desires of technical and management workers. Additional research has proposed "desired" HumanResource Management (HRM) practices to facilitate the retention of each type ofcareer-based engineer (Lee and Maurer, 1997). In an effort to determine if these career orientations, along with Air Force HRM practices, were linked todeclining retention, a survey was sent to 927 CE company grade officers (CGO) to measure these and other variables of interest including career satisfaction,perceived organizational support and participant's intent to remain in the AirForce. Results of the analysis revealed 50 percent of respondents weremanagement oriented, 37 percent were project oriented, and 13 percent professional oriented. Management oriented CE officers reported higher levels of career satisfaction and intent to remain in the Air Force than the other twoorientations. Additional findings suggest that career orientation and HRMpractices are important considerations for improving the retention of Air ForceCE CGOs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Business Publications, Inc. on July 31, 2009. The length of the article is 2992 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Career schools.(HUMAN RESOURCES & TRAINING)(Directory)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 31, 2009
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 31Issue: 16Page: 43(3)

Article Type: Directory

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For those interested in a career in human resources, this WetFeet Insider Guide explores how the field has evolved; the hiring outlook and industry trends; the different jobs available, with salary ranges for each; the pros and cons of working in HR; and how to shine in their interviews. ... Read more