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Jul292010

Quick Shot: 5 Things I'd Do Differently In My HR Career

 

100% totally inspired from Laurie Ruettimann's presentation to HR students at SHRM '10, Learn From My (HR) Mistakes, here are five things I would do differently in my HR career: 

Spend time as a recruiter sourcing, searching, and selling.

Be a small fish in a big pond for a few years to add big corporate HR to the toolkit. 

Really, I mean really, understand the financial side of a business.

Spend as much time outside of HR as I spent in it.

Make more waves. 

What about you? What would you do?

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Reader Comments (8)

Entered the HR field earlier in my career.

Obtain more HRIS education ( SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Ultipro)

Had the opportunity to do a HR internship in Fortune 500 company while studying for
Masters Degree in HR
Thursday, July 29, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterBob Tarver
Get my SHRM certification earlier in my career.

Ask more questions.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterBonita Martin
Can leaving my first HR job sooner for better things be the only thing I would change?
Friday, July 30, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteradowling
Spend as much time learning about myself, my personality, my strengths and my weaknesses as I did learning about HR law and regulations.
Monday, August 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAndrea Ballard
From the beginning, I would learn not to take everything quite so seriously.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJim aka Evil Skippy at Work www.evilskippyatwork.c
I love the last tip; spend more time out than in. That way you can see it in different perspective and gain more motivation for things that really matter.
Friday, August 6, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJames
Really there's only one thing.... I would have put a HIGH priority on staying connected to my relationships. My biggest mistake was in allowing people to pass through my life instead of realizing they are my inheritance, my true wealth.

My friend Bonnie Hanson taught me this lesson. She wouldn't let me go no matter what. I am eternally grateful for that lesson.
Friday, August 6, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAlan Hill
Taking everything seriously would cause damage so we must take it easy.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterOutsourcing Philippines

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