There is a sad irony in the fact that while millions of human resource professionals have for decades and decades helped every other Tom, Dick and Harry or Jane, Jill and Anne with their careers, these very same hard working HR professionals have been left out in the cold and struggled to gain credibility from the very people they helped reach the top.
by J Palmer
John Wiley & Sons, 2004
$53.95
There is a sad irony in the fact that while millions of human resource professionals have for decades and decades helped every other Tom, Dick and Harry or Jane, Jill and Anne with their careers, these very same hard working HR professionals have been left out in the cold and struggled to gain credibility from the very people they helped reach the top.
In the words of every Australian HR department’s favourite Shannon Noll: what about me?
Well, the wait is finally over. The Human Resources Professional’s Career Guide is unashamedly a how-to for HR types to get ahead and stay ahead. Coming out of the Pfeiffer library and penned by long-time HR recruiter Jeanne Palmer, this book looks at the choices, challenges and rewards of building a career in HR.
Divided into eight chapters, the book lays out the entire landscape of HR career choices for readers who want to achieve their full potential and ambitions in human resource management. One-on-one interviews with so-called HR stars about how they developed their careers are interspersed between the chapters. While American in content, given Australia’s increasing Americanisation, this tome may well prove useful in the future.
