Guest Speaker: Wendy Hendersen from the Management Group.
Wendy is the 2010 President for SWHRMA
Discussion about Internships in her company:
-Has had an internship program in her company for the last 3 years
-All of the interns have found employment in hr after it is completed
-Doing a little bit of everything throughout the HR processes. Interns learn how to do the job and have a good learning experience.
-Wendy's interns have exposure to everything either through hands on experience or exposure to it.
-It is best to spend 4 hours per day and consecutive days working during your internship.
-She currently has an internship available now and is open immediately.
-She started the program because she likes to work in a team environment and wanted to have someone to work with and have the team work and do things together.
Typical day of an internship:
-Involves a lot of mentoring, good communication, and learning
-Recruiting, phone screens/pre-employment testing, observe interviews and then you actually help with them, learn about pre-employment procedures and how to do a good reference checks.-Meet for the first 15 minutes of the day and talk about what needs to be done and what can be scrapped.
-Throughout the day able to touch base with each other.
-Learning how to make craigs list postings, html, etc
-Paces it to see how well you learn, you don’t get it all thrown on you at one time.
-Will tell you where you should focus when you are in the employment process.
-If you don’t have a good reputation in HR the word will get around.
-Start with a tiny bit of filing then with recruiting.
HOLDING AN INTERNSHIP WITH SCHOOL, FAMILY, ETC
-Have to manage your time want to make sure that it is a consecutive 20 hours , 2 or 3 days in a row and at least 4 hours per day. Pretty flexible with the hours per week.
-Get a chance to see and interview
Jamie-Columbian economic forecast
The state economic chief was at the meeting
More information to be provided at next meeting
Discussion about Student Involvement
Discussed the HR classes and advice about instructors etc.
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Please explain me something more about SWHRMA.
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human resources college
The Southwest Washington Human Resource Management Association (SWHRMA) was established in June 2000 to serve human resource professionals throughout southwest Washington, including Clark, Skamania, and Cowlitz counties.
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*Connecting People
*Providing Relevant Resources
*Giving Back to the Community
The chapter holds monthly luncheons as well as several 1/2 and full day conferences throughout the year. Student receive a discount when attending any our events. For more information you can visit our website at www.SWHRMA.org.
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Wendy Henderson, PHR
2010 SWHRMA Chapter President
Director of HR @ The Management Group Inc
Wendy,
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Kathy Allen