Written by experienced HR professionals Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell, THE ESSENTIAL HR HANDBOOK is a quick and handy resource for any manager or HR professional who wants to create positive relationships between employees and managers, develop attractive and fair compensation packages, manage hirings and firings with minimal risk, and keep their workforce free of harassment and other unlawful discrimination. Buy your copy today!
And Hot off the Presses is THE ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW HANDBOOK, by Sharon Armstrong. Another quick and handy resource, it helps managers understand why a performance review serves as an important business tool, motivates personnel and increases productivity, helps a company achieve its goals, improves manager-employee communication, and reduces the risk of legal liability. Buy that brand new book here.
May 13, 2013, Namely People Management Blog — “In her webinar “Stress-Free Performance Appraisals: Increase Productivity, Engage Employees, and Retain Top Talent,” Sharon Armstrong, human resources consultant, outlined some performance appraisal best practices. Here are 12 tips on performance management best practices.”
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May 14, 2013, Positive Business DC — Sharon Armstrong‘s book, The Essential Performance Review Handbook, was reviewed by Shannon Polly in her most recent blog on positive psychology on the Positive Business DC website.
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Winter/Spring 2013, NJALA Jer-Z-Journal — The most recent issue of the Jer-Z-Journal, published by the New Jersey Association of Legal Administrators (NJALA), features an article entitled Enabling Others to Act which identifies Sharon Armstrong as a leader whose example has had a lasting impact.
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Leesburg SHRM Chapter, River Creek Country Club, Leesburg, VA
September 18, 2013
Montgomery County SHRM Chapter
June 23, 2013
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 24th Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV: Career Coaching
ALAN LUBA is a senior level Consultant. He has worked in the world of government and government contractors since the Constitution was signed establishing the government. He began his long career in local Maryland government. He then started as an HR practitioner for various government contractors, where all of the Washington, DC glitzy movers and shakers work. Alan is definitely a glitzy kind of guy. After several years, the call of consulting began beckoning him…
by Sharon Armstrong
owner, Sharon Armstrong and Associates
author, The Essential HR Handbook
January 2010
In the last issue of Career Corner, I asked for feedback from readers who had questions about any question they had regarding looking for a new job. Among them was “How should one effectively use social media in a job search?”
Here are a few more questions that intrigued me, and hopefully will provide some great insight for job seekers. Please keep them coming!
And this just in: My questions are being published on a new online magazine for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs called Be Inkandescent. Check it out! Who knows — your next question just might be posted on it. Send any career-related to me at Sharon@SharonArmstrongAndAssociates.com.
Question: What is the best way to explain a gap in your resume – meaning if you have been out of work for a period of time, due to whatever reason, how best to illustrate that?
