Hi Everyone!
We would like to invite you to our next HR Society Meeting. It will be held on March 10th, 2010 from 1:30-2:30 pm in VLIB 261. Our guest speaker will be Randy Boose, Director of HR at WSU Vancouver.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
HR Society Meeting Minutes: 02/24/10
Looking for people who are interested in competing in the HR Games.
-The funding for the trip will be presented to the student government on Friday.
-Internship scholarship through SHRM available.
Opportunity to help SWARMA complete mock interviews:
-March 11th from 8-3 or from 8-12
On 17th National conference in Seattle $40.00 to attend.
Guest Speaker: Alex Teagarden
What is SHRM?
-Large national HR association
-WSUV part of SWARMA is the local representative for SHRM
-Angie is our contact with SHRM
-There are things that we have to have to maintain our partnership with SHRM
-SWARMA is offering a local mentor for students.
Benefits:
-Students get discounts $30 vs $160
-HR Magazine for entire year as part of annual fees
-Echoes Newsletter
-SHRM Store
-White Papers
-SHRM Annual Conference Student discounts for conference
-SHRM Foundation Scholarships
HR society relationship with SHRM:
-Interesting HR or career related speakers
-Job Shadowing
-Internships
-Mentoring
-Site Visits
-Scholarships
-HR Games
-Professional Chapter Meetings
-Other educational programs
PHR exam
-Shows that you are qualified and that you are prepared to be in the HR field.
-Best to take the exam this year because the requirements will be changing
SHRM Student Membership Requirements:
-Enrolled in at least 6 credits/ semester
Who can help you?
-Student chapter liason
-Helps to keep the club on track with the SHRM requirements
-Helps with guest speakers
HR Club gets a merit award:
-Club is hoping to get the Superior merit award for the year.
HR club T-Shirts
-Get matching shirts for the HR games or if you want to have an HR shirt of your own.
-The funding for the trip will be presented to the student government on Friday.
-Internship scholarship through SHRM available.
Opportunity to help SWARMA complete mock interviews:
-March 11th from 8-3 or from 8-12
On 17th National conference in Seattle $40.00 to attend.
Guest Speaker: Alex Teagarden
What is SHRM?
-Large national HR association
-WSUV part of SWARMA is the local representative for SHRM
-Angie is our contact with SHRM
-There are things that we have to have to maintain our partnership with SHRM
-SWARMA is offering a local mentor for students.
Benefits:
-Students get discounts $30 vs $160
-HR Magazine for entire year as part of annual fees
-Echoes Newsletter
-SHRM Store
-White Papers
-SHRM Annual Conference Student discounts for conference
-SHRM Foundation Scholarships
HR society relationship with SHRM:
-Interesting HR or career related speakers
-Job Shadowing
-Internships
-Mentoring
-Site Visits
-Scholarships
-HR Games
-Professional Chapter Meetings
-Other educational programs
PHR exam
-Shows that you are qualified and that you are prepared to be in the HR field.
-Best to take the exam this year because the requirements will be changing
SHRM Student Membership Requirements:
-Enrolled in at least 6 credits/ semester
Who can help you?
-Student chapter liason
-Helps to keep the club on track with the SHRM requirements
-Helps with guest speakers
HR Club gets a merit award:
-Club is hoping to get the Superior merit award for the year.
HR club T-Shirts
-Get matching shirts for the HR games or if you want to have an HR shirt of your own.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
HR Society Meeting Minutes: 2/17/10
Guest Speaker: Julie McCord
How do the HR Games work?
There is a handbook online on the SHRM Site that explains what the HR games are about, how to study, etc.
-It is basically a group of schools that enter and you are set up with a schedule to compete.
-It is like a Jeopardy game, there is one or two judges who read the questions and make sure the
answers are correct. The games are very fast paced.
-Games are free to enter but we have to worry about how to get there and pay for your own
expenses.
-Whoever wins the round moves on to the next round the next day, if you don't win the round
you are eliminated.
-There is a conference where you can learn things, meet and network with other students.
-The last group that went spent the same amount of time preparing as our study group.
-It is important to go through the flashcards.
-The questions in the study group questions are more lengthy than what you will get in the
game.
-You need to get used to compacting down the question because you will not get all of the
information that you will be looking for that you may be looking for when you are going through
them while you are studying.
-The questions are from all sections of the PHR Exam.
-You may get some questions that you know really easily but some that you will not know.
-It works best if everyone on the team concentrates on a specific area so that you have a good
knowledge of that area.
-there are at least 6 rounds that you go through during the games. There were different
rooms last time so it is difficult to know.
-On the way to the games you can also prepare for the games on the way there.
-The flashcards are different colors so you can set them up by category and keep going
thorough the questions. When you go through the questions, if you were to compact the
question down, what would it sound like?
-the games are the 14th through the 20th.
-Letter to the student government to obtain support for the games.
-Need to determine how much money to request from the senate.
-Julie will be calling Angie to see if we can get a few minutes at one of the SWHRMA
luncheons for a fund raiser.
-The reason to get the PHR is because people who have it know where the red flags are
compared to someone who do not have it. Most people who do not pass the PHR, fail because
they do not take the exam seriously. They do not believe that the exam is as hard as it really
is. Both exams (PHR and SPHR) are the hardest exams that they have taken.
Julie works in consulting for companies who do not have a full time HR person or cannot have a full-time person. It is getting tougher as time goes along to get the HR knowledge. She works as the HR person for these companies. Worked as a manager in retail and then decided that she wanted to move out of that type of environment.
-One of the important parts of HR is training the managers how to do their jobs.
-eg. training managers to see the value in performance reviews.
- Terminating employees
-need to make sure that someone knows that their job is on the line. when you tell them this
to begin with then they are making the decision rather than you.
-Our current economy is making people more litigious.
-Julie is happy to be a mentor for our students.
-When getting into HR you need to get your foot in the door however you can and then keep it
in there.
How do the HR Games work?
There is a handbook online on the SHRM Site that explains what the HR games are about, how to study, etc.
-It is basically a group of schools that enter and you are set up with a schedule to compete.
-It is like a Jeopardy game, there is one or two judges who read the questions and make sure the
answers are correct. The games are very fast paced.
-Games are free to enter but we have to worry about how to get there and pay for your own
expenses.
-Whoever wins the round moves on to the next round the next day, if you don't win the round
you are eliminated.
-There is a conference where you can learn things, meet and network with other students.
-The last group that went spent the same amount of time preparing as our study group.
-It is important to go through the flashcards.
-The questions in the study group questions are more lengthy than what you will get in the
game.
-You need to get used to compacting down the question because you will not get all of the
information that you will be looking for that you may be looking for when you are going through
them while you are studying.
-The questions are from all sections of the PHR Exam.
-You may get some questions that you know really easily but some that you will not know.
-It works best if everyone on the team concentrates on a specific area so that you have a good
knowledge of that area.
-there are at least 6 rounds that you go through during the games. There were different
rooms last time so it is difficult to know.
-On the way to the games you can also prepare for the games on the way there.
-The flashcards are different colors so you can set them up by category and keep going
thorough the questions. When you go through the questions, if you were to compact the
question down, what would it sound like?
-the games are the 14th through the 20th.
-Letter to the student government to obtain support for the games.
-Need to determine how much money to request from the senate.
-Julie will be calling Angie to see if we can get a few minutes at one of the SWHRMA
luncheons for a fund raiser.
-The reason to get the PHR is because people who have it know where the red flags are
compared to someone who do not have it. Most people who do not pass the PHR, fail because
they do not take the exam seriously. They do not believe that the exam is as hard as it really
is. Both exams (PHR and SPHR) are the hardest exams that they have taken.
Julie works in consulting for companies who do not have a full time HR person or cannot have a full-time person. It is getting tougher as time goes along to get the HR knowledge. She works as the HR person for these companies. Worked as a manager in retail and then decided that she wanted to move out of that type of environment.
-One of the important parts of HR is training the managers how to do their jobs.
-eg. training managers to see the value in performance reviews.
- Terminating employees
-need to make sure that someone knows that their job is on the line. when you tell them this
to begin with then they are making the decision rather than you.
-Our current economy is making people more litigious.
-Julie is happy to be a mentor for our students.
-When getting into HR you need to get your foot in the door however you can and then keep it
in there.
HR Club Meeting
Our next HR Society Meeting will be held on February 24, 2010 from 1:30pm to 2:30 in VLIB 261.
Dont forget! Julie McCord will be speaking today in VMMC 23 from 1:30pm until 2:30pm about the HR Games.
We hope to see you there!
Dont forget! Julie McCord will be speaking today in VMMC 23 from 1:30pm until 2:30pm about the HR Games.
We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
HR Society Meeting Minutes: 1/27/10
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.
Special HR Club Meeting
We will have an additional meeting this month on February 17, 2010 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in VMMC 23.
Guest speaker Julie Mc Cord will be talking to the club about her experiences in the HR club games.
Guest speaker Julie Mc Cord will be talking to the club about her experiences in the HR club games.
HR Club Meeting
Our next HR Society Meeting will be held on February 10, 2010 from 1:30-2:30pm in VLIB 261.
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
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