The Human Resource Professional's Career Guide: Building a Position of Strength (Hardcover)

by Jeanne Palmer (Author), Martha I. Finney (Author) "This chapter outlines ways you can take strategic control over your career by dispassionately assessing how your skills and experiences align with the expectations of..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
“The Human Resource Professional’s Career Guide is like What Color is Your Parachute? for HR.”
--David Yakonich, project manager, Human Resource Competency Study, University of Michigan Business School

“Take charge of your career! This book provides clear and immediately actionable tools on how to go after your goals in HR. A must read for every career-oriented HR professional!”
--Libby Sartain, Chief People Yahoo,  Yahoo!, coauthor, HR From the Heart

“Miss reading this insightful and pivotal book and you will be missing out on a great job, defining your career your way, recovering brilliantly from any misstep, and being known as an A Player.”
--Sharon Winston, regional senior vice president, Lee Hecht Harrison

“The interviews are very powerful, because they represent very diverse views of successful folks who all got to the top in very different ways. They capture the types of conversations and life lesson insights that you usually only get with a good friend after a great diner and a glass of wine or two. ”
--MacGregor Burns, senior vice president, HR, Citi Cards

“Aspiring professionals will find this book helpful as a resource for guidance, advice, and insights into shaping a successful HR career.”
--Tiane Mitchell Gordon, director of diversity and inclusion, America Online, Inc.

“This book provides a unique focus on the human resources function, providing information and inspiration for those seeking guidance.”
--Cathy Sandeen, vice provost and dean, University of California Santa Cruz Extension

“Jeanne Palmer and Martha Finney offer us some excellent advice¾perceptive, practical and professional!”
--Kenneth C. Moore, director of human resources and corporate ombudsman, KeySpan Corporation, and coauthor, The CEO and the Monk: One Company’s Journey to Profit and Purpose

Product Description
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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (July 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787973319
• ISBN-13: 978-0787973315
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #585,143 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding advice for HR Professionals at all levels, August 8, 2004

By	Gloria Moreno (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

Jeanne Palmer and Martha Finney have delivered outstanding and practical advice for HR professionals at all levels. The tone is warm and encouraging, and the information is pragmatic and insightful.

The many roadmaps in this book show career-minded professionals how to prepare themselves with the focus on long-term goals while outlining the many different ways of getting there within this changing field.

The field of HR seems to be a moving target at times, and this book addresses that issue by presenting information to be considered in many different scenarios.

In summary, this book is a must read for HR folks who want to manage their careers in the same manner in which they do their jobs by handling the tactical issues while focusing on strategic plans.

5.0 out of 5 stars A real guide, February 15, 2008

By	David L. White "Wrondel" (Reno) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars This book enables you to see the trees in the forest!, June 13, 2005

By	Bob Concannon (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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 of the HR professionals with whom we interface on a daily basis. I would recommend this book to anyone who works in the human capital industry.