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.
HR360, Performance Reviews: Steps to Success Webinar—Lillian Shapiro, President of HR360 and Sharon Armstrong, PHR, CMF, deliver an HR Over Coffee Special Edition webinar. Sharon is the author of The Essential Performance Review Handbook, Stress-free Performance Appraisals and The Essential HR Handbook, and has more than 20 years of experience as a Human Resources consultant, trainer and career counselor.
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May 2012, ICCI Global Update—Institute of Career Certification International (ICCI)‘s May 2012 issue of ICCI Global Update features an article entitled ICCI Professionals are Reading. This article highlights a book that was reviewed and recommended by Sharon Armstrong.
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May 2012, Riklan Resources Career Newsletter—This month’s Careeer Newsletter published by Riklan Resources features Sharon Armstrong in Career Corner.
This month I’d like to share some secrets on getting to the second interview. It’s simple, just do a great job on the first interview! A job interview is the most important undertaking in the job search process. It’s the key to being hired, and how you approach the interview can determine its outcome.
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Center for Nonprofit Advancement: Stress-free Performance Appraisals
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City of Alexandria: Behavioral Interviewing
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SANDRA CROWE, MA, PCC, the author of Since Strangling Isn’t an Option…. (Perigee, 1999), and the brand new I Didn’t Sign Up for This!: 7 Strategies for Dealing With Difficulty in Difficult Times (Two Harbors Press, 2012), is a professional speaker, trainer, coach, and facilitator. Having given over 2,300 seminars in the past twenty-some years, she uses her public speaking, communications, and people skills to create awareness of ineffective behaviors and to document solutions.
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?
