Sunday, December 6, 2009
Minutes from meeting on Nov. 9th
Background and purpose of GatorSHRM was presented at this meeting.
To become a National SHRM member it costs only $35 for students! This membership provides you with newsletters and information on the HR field. It also allows you access to local NCF SHRM meetings that occur every 3rd Thursday of the month. This is great for networking. We will be attending those meetings in the spring semester! Applications for national SHRM were available at this meeting. Please email GatorSHRM@gmail.com for an application if you did not pick up one.
Four members of the NCF chapter of SHRM attended the meeting to give insight about the HR field.
Here is some background on the NCF members:
- Eva Del Rio, M Ed.
Principal Consultant and Founder of the business HR Pro on Demand
She is involved in HR Consulting – the business she owns provides HR expertise for small businesses. Some other companies she has worked for in the past include Gainesville Sun and various engineering companies. She started as receptionist and fell into HR in the recruiting sector. Her masters degree is in education and she has her PHR certification.
- Robin Harpe
Principal Consultant and Founder of the business navigate your life
She is a motivational speaker, but started her career as a receptionist and then got into the HR field. In the past, she has had to lay off 1,200 pharmaceutical reps, which she considers to be one of the hardest things she has done. She then worked her way to become an HR generalist.
- Pete Eiden, SPHR, GPHR
Manager, Employee Relations and Compensation for RTI Biologics
He is currently the president of NCF SHRM. In college, he was originally pre-med, but decided he didn’t like biology. He then became an undergrad in psychology and then went back to school for his MBA. He says his MBA was very useful in dealing with numbers in HR.
- Ric Gwin
Assistant Vice President of HR for Tower Hill Insurance
Started as a teacher in Ft. Myers, then worked for a company where he was in charge of running a United Way Campaign. He then worked in HR for a hospital and dealt with legalities of HR (HMOs, etc).
Some highlights of their insight are as follows:
- HR field is full of people from all backgrounds and majors
- Companies over 100 employees are the ones most likely to have strong HR sector
- People in HR in a company are “in the know” of what’s going on in the company and usually have a strong influence on top execs – Involves a lot of trust
- HR is an up and coming and growing field – Those in HR careers started as paper pushers -- Now HR careers are more strategic
- Not a boring and stagnant job - No two days are alike
- Extremely important for people in HR to fully understand the industry the company is in
- HR manages risk and liabilities
- It is a great asset to have knowledge in finance, statistics, and analysis of these
- Get an internship!
The NCF SHRM members were asked what they thought were the hardest and most enjoyable aspects of the HR field. These were their answers:
Hardest-
- Laying people off
- Company and employee issues you get pulled into -- Can feel like you are in a war because you are being pulled toward the interests of management and employees – It is very important to know who you are and what you value when making decisions
- Dealing with petty issues – Solutions and things you can’t find in textbooks
- Sometimes people in HR get too carried away on the employee side -- Must remember your career and your own personal goals and development
- Being in the HR field is like being in an aquarium on a daily basis – Very visible position -- Must be very accessible
Best-
- Being influential and gaining trust of decision makers in company and being apart of that elite group
- Being able to design a company from the ground up -- Being able to design a job, find the right person for it, and then watch them shine
- Learning all aspects of the business -- Not a stagnant position
- Helping people and developing trust with a manager
- Lots of options of sectors to get into in the HR fields – benefits, recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, etc.
- Constant change
When it comes to the different sectors of HR, some notes they said are as follows:
- Employee relations sector – this is the sector where the firing of employees occur, but this is not the only sector, especially in smaller companies
- Compensation sector – maximize effectiveness and efficiency of positions, very analytical position
*Ric Gwin, Asst. VP of HR for Tower Hill Insurance, offered a tour and viewing of the HR dept. at Tower Hill – we will be taking him up on this offer for the spring semester
Look for updates for the exciting thing was have planned for the spring semester!
To become a National SHRM member it costs only $35 for students! This membership provides you with newsletters and information on the HR field. It also allows you access to local NCF SHRM meetings that occur every 3rd Thursday of the month. This is great for networking. We will be attending those meetings in the spring semester! Applications for national SHRM were available at this meeting. Please email GatorSHRM@gmail.com for an application if you did not pick up one.
Four members of the NCF chapter of SHRM attended the meeting to give insight about the HR field.
Here is some background on the NCF members:
- Eva Del Rio, M Ed.
Principal Consultant and Founder of the business HR Pro on Demand
She is involved in HR Consulting – the business she owns provides HR expertise for small businesses. Some other companies she has worked for in the past include Gainesville Sun and various engineering companies. She started as receptionist and fell into HR in the recruiting sector. Her masters degree is in education and she has her PHR certification.
- Robin Harpe
Principal Consultant and Founder of the business navigate your life
She is a motivational speaker, but started her career as a receptionist and then got into the HR field. In the past, she has had to lay off 1,200 pharmaceutical reps, which she considers to be one of the hardest things she has done. She then worked her way to become an HR generalist.
- Pete Eiden, SPHR, GPHR
Manager, Employee Relations and Compensation for RTI Biologics
He is currently the president of NCF SHRM. In college, he was originally pre-med, but decided he didn’t like biology. He then became an undergrad in psychology and then went back to school for his MBA. He says his MBA was very useful in dealing with numbers in HR.
- Ric Gwin
Assistant Vice President of HR for Tower Hill Insurance
Started as a teacher in Ft. Myers, then worked for a company where he was in charge of running a United Way Campaign. He then worked in HR for a hospital and dealt with legalities of HR (HMOs, etc).
Some highlights of their insight are as follows:
- HR field is full of people from all backgrounds and majors
- Companies over 100 employees are the ones most likely to have strong HR sector
- People in HR in a company are “in the know” of what’s going on in the company and usually have a strong influence on top execs – Involves a lot of trust
- HR is an up and coming and growing field – Those in HR careers started as paper pushers -- Now HR careers are more strategic
- Not a boring and stagnant job - No two days are alike
- Extremely important for people in HR to fully understand the industry the company is in
- HR manages risk and liabilities
- It is a great asset to have knowledge in finance, statistics, and analysis of these
- Get an internship!
The NCF SHRM members were asked what they thought were the hardest and most enjoyable aspects of the HR field. These were their answers:
Hardest-
- Laying people off
- Company and employee issues you get pulled into -- Can feel like you are in a war because you are being pulled toward the interests of management and employees – It is very important to know who you are and what you value when making decisions
- Dealing with petty issues – Solutions and things you can’t find in textbooks
- Sometimes people in HR get too carried away on the employee side -- Must remember your career and your own personal goals and development
- Being in the HR field is like being in an aquarium on a daily basis – Very visible position -- Must be very accessible
Best-
- Being influential and gaining trust of decision makers in company and being apart of that elite group
- Being able to design a company from the ground up -- Being able to design a job, find the right person for it, and then watch them shine
- Learning all aspects of the business -- Not a stagnant position
- Helping people and developing trust with a manager
- Lots of options of sectors to get into in the HR fields – benefits, recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, etc.
- Constant change
When it comes to the different sectors of HR, some notes they said are as follows:
- Employee relations sector – this is the sector where the firing of employees occur, but this is not the only sector, especially in smaller companies
- Compensation sector – maximize effectiveness and efficiency of positions, very analytical position
*Ric Gwin, Asst. VP of HR for Tower Hill Insurance, offered a tour and viewing of the HR dept. at Tower Hill – we will be taking him up on this offer for the spring semester
Look for updates for the exciting thing was have planned for the spring semester!
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