Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

I hope you're well and that you can attend our next event with Maya Raber of Tulip Management.  Her topic is "Leading Change."  Please note that our event time has changed.  

If you strictly want information about this event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the book links at the bottom of this page. 

Last month, Christine Young and Jenny Vonderwerth planned planned our event, with Sheila Dundon MS, SPHR, the President of Priority Leadership Group.  She presented “Advancing Women Leaders:  The Win/Win Solution”  Please click here for the PDF download.  Thank you all!

One of the hardest things to manage in life is change.  When change occurs in my personal life, I usually see it coming, plan for it, mentally practice my responses and possible outcomes.  Usually that works but not always!

Managing change at work is a whole other animal.  Being in a position where I'm not the change agent, where I'm depending on others to manage their own changes and I also have changes - that is a whole other set of challenges.  I'm looking forward to learning from Maya Raber and I hope to see you there.

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Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

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1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m.  Maya Raber of Tulip Management.  Her topic is "Leading Change."   Please click on the registration tab for details and note our NEW TIME.  

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2. Discounts and Offers – view them online. Thanks for extending the discounts to our group!

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

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8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,


I hope you're well and that you can attend our next event where Sheila Dundon of Priority Leadership Group will present "Advancing Women Leaders: The Win/Win Solution."  Please note that our event time has changed.  

If you strictly want information about this event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the book links at the bottom of this page.  Last month, Christine Renninger, Marilyn Messer, Lisset Nevarez and Christine Young planned planned our event, with Candice Tal, CEO of Infortal Worldwide, "Fact, Fiction or Façade? Connecting Background Checks and Workplace Violence." Thank you all!

Sheila will be talking about a topic close to my heart:  women and leadership.  Just for fun, I put these keywords into a Google Search:  women leadership statistics 2012.  The links are here.  You'll see links to statistics, accounts of women leaving technology, women being great leaders.  Such a mixed bag!

My next book is not going to be on this topic, but I would summarize my advice to women in the following paragraphs.

Be educated in your field and don't become complacent.  Things change all the time and one article, meeting, webinar or workshop will increase your knowledge, understanding, give you an ah-ha moment, change your perspective, change your career.  Your ongoing education is your responsibility, so if your company doesn't pay for a workshop, pay for it yourself.


Don't be afraid to be the only woman in the room, and don't be the only one to bring in the coffee.  Own your space and be confident in the things you know.

Be kind.  Be polite.  That doesn't make you a pushover - it makes you human.  Other people respond to you as a human being and usually treat you well in return.

Of course I have worked with people I don't like but it's not important that I like them or they like me.  Don't be upset if not everyone is your friend.  Friendship is important and I have friends in my life, but they are different than work-friends.

It's important to do the job you're paid to do and make your best effort.  Leave the drama at home.  The truth is that people at work don't want it and it doesn't serve you well.

Look beyond today and envision future outcomes.  Where do you want to go?  Break down the steps to get there and be methodical and patient and reach milestones and goals.

So there you have it, a few bits of advice from this end.  I'm eager to learn from Sheila!

You can subscribe to the blog, share it on Facebook or Tweet it. Join us on LinkedIn.

Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m. 
2. Discounts
3. Using our Forum
4. Spam Filter Alert
5. To change you email address
6. Unsubscribe
7. Potential Speakers/Topics
8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m.  Sheila Dundon of Priority Leadership Group will present "Advancing Women Leaders: The Win/Win Solution."  Please click on the registration tab for details and note our NEW TIME.  

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2. Discounts and Offers – view them online. Thanks for extending the discounts to our group!

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.5. To change your email address, click here and go to the correct form.

6. Unsubscribe To discontinue mailings please respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line or go to the form. If you receive mail at more than one email address, please note all addresses to delete.

7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.html for details and a form to submit your information.  This will be reviewed during the January 2014 meeting.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

I hope you're well and that you can attend our next event with our speaker, Candice Tal, CEO and founder of Infortal Worldwide.  Her topic is "Fact, Fiction or Façade?  Connecting Background Checks & Workplace Violence."  Please note that our event time has changed.  

If you strictly want information about this event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the book links at the bottom of this page.

Last month, Patrice Lindo and Patricia Murphy planned our event, "Strategic Thinking as a Discipline" with Jeffrey D. Sanders M.Ed., SPHR.  There was so much great information and I'm grateful for the ideas and our volunteers' planning skills.  Thank you!

Have you noticed hiring is picking up?  It's an odd economy as we have a lot of people looking for work and facing a lot of challenges such as age discrimination, gaps on resumes, salary discrimination and so on.

On one of my mailing lists, I saw a post for a contract HR position and you know what caught my eye?  It's a 6-10 month contract, and they stated they did not want any "job hoppers."  By stipulating a contract that's less than a year, and this particular company notoriously does that with most HR positions, they perpetuate the very problem they want to avoid.  Is it just me or is that ridiculous?

I'm working at a manufacturing company and we're doing a lot of hiring, mostly machinists but some engineers, quality inspectors and so on.  Some of the resumes are shockingly bad.  Two different people must have used the same template, and although their names were in their emails, their resumes had no name and no contact information!  Both of these people applied for some C-level jobs we don't have open, and both should have known better.

If you're looking for work:  if you can, print out your resume and look at it as if you were a stranger, reading every word and checking for spelling, content and style.  Can a friend check it for you?

If you're receiving resumes:  job seekers are exhausted from their search.  They customize resumes and sometimes cover letters, taking a long time to do so, and often don't even receive an automated "Thanks, we got your resume" note.  They may have small mistakes on the resume - I've had that happen.  It's from constantly tweaking and targeting resumes and sometimes errors are missed.

So let's be human and forgiving of small errors, and let's be professionals, too.  Good luck all around!

I wrote a book about recruiters and William Uranga was one of the people I interviewed.  Here's a link to a PDF of his interview and I hope you enjoy it.  (The book is "Recruiters on Recruiting" and, like most writers, copies are usually in my car and available online.  More information is on my website.)

You can subscribe to the blog, share it on Facebook or Tweet it. Join us on LinkedIn.

Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m. 
2. Discounts
3. Using our Forum
4. Spam Filter Alert
5. To change you email address
6. Unsubscribe
7. Potential Speakers/Topics
8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m.  Candice Tal, CEO and founder of Infortal Worldwide will present "Fact, Fiction or Façade?  Connecting Background Checks & Workplace Violence."  Please click on the registration tab for details and note our NEW TIME.  

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2. Discounts and Offers – view them online. Thanks for extending the discounts to our group!

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.5. To change your email address, click here and go to the correct form.

6. Unsubscribe To discontinue mailings please respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line or go to the form. If you receive mail at more than one email address, please note all addresses to delete.

7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.html for details and a form to submit your information.  This will be reviewed during the January 2014 meeting.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 

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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

I hope you're well and that you can attend our next event with our speaker, Jeffrey D. Sanders M.Ed., SPHR.  His topic is "Strategic Thinking as a Discipline."  Please note that our event time has changed.  

If you strictly want information about this event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.  Before you go, please check out the book links at the bottom of this page.

Last month, Jenny Vonderwerth and Lisset Nevarez planned our event and showed the movie, "Moneyball."  I understand there were some technical issues so the group had some informal conversation and enjoyed the evening.  Thank you, Jenny and Lisset!

We recently lost a long-time member, Vickie Hornbeck.  I didn't know her well but appreciated it when she attended and even when she didn't.

At a time when she was looking for work, she contributed many job leads to our forum, even those jobs she was looking into for herself.  She was very kind, decent, and it was amazing to share these leads hoping some of our group would find work as a result.  I was going through some old emails and found several notes where she mentioned our speakers and how much she had enjoyed them, and she wrote to the speakers and volunteers, as well.

When you meet a person like that, you know you've found someone very special. She will be missed, and in her honor, please go out and do something nice.  You're also welcome to post comments on this blog if there is something you'd like to share.

I wrote a book about recruiters and William Uranga was one of the people I interviewed.  Here's a link to a PDF of his interview and I hope you enjoy it.  (The book is "Recruiters on Recruiting" and, like most writers, copies are usually in my car and available online.  More information is on my website.)

You can subscribe to the blog, share it on Facebook or Tweet it. Join us on LinkedIn.

Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m. 
2. Discounts
3. Using our Forum
4. Spam Filter Alert
5. To change you email address
6. Unsubscribe
7. Potential Speakers/Topics
8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts.

1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:00-8:30 p.m.  Jeffrey D. Sanders M.Ed., SPHR will present "Strategic Thinking as a Discipline."  Please click on the registration tab for details and note our NEW TIME.  

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2. Discounts and Offers – view them online. Thanks for extending the discounts to our group!

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.

5. To change your email address, click 
4. SPAM Filter Alert: please add mstein@ourhrsite.com to your address book.

5. To change your email address, click here and go to the correct form.

6. Unsubscribe To discontinue mailings please respond with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line or go to the form. If you receive mail at more than one email address, please note all addresses to delete.

7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.html for details and a form to submit your information.  This will be reviewed during the January 2014 meeting.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/ 



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