I haven't posted in a while. Like, a month. Mea culpa. I do apologize, but life got unexpectedly busy.
I am very pleased to announce that after 14 months of looking, I finally found the perfect opportunity! Starting October 29th, I have a new position as Human Resources Generalist. I won't be mentioning the company name as of yet, because I do not yet know how they feel about me linking myself to them via my blog. Suffice it to say that I am very excited for the opportunity, because it will let me dig right into the meat of HR best practices, and do what I do best.
The new position goes as follows:
My new org (let's call them Polaris for now- not the right name but convenient shorthand) is a family-owned org. Recently, the founder of the company turned it over to his offspring to run, who hired a CFO about six months ago. They are looking to make some pretty radical changes to company culture, hiring practices, performance management, compensation and benefits, etc. as a way of facilitating considerable corporate growth, and my job is to examine, revamp and revise pretty much all of the above.
Previously, their HR department has been one person without much background or education in HR, and Polaris is looking to change that up and bring in a more strategic HR function. There are considerable challenges to be overcome, and I look forward to the opportunity for change management on this kind of scale. It's going to be an amazing challenge for us to bring Polaris to where they want to be, but there seems to be huge buy-in among the executive and management teams to get us there.
In short, I'm going to be a very busy girl for a while, so I do apologize if this blog gets a bit neglected. I'll try not to go for months on end without posting, I promise. There's just going to be so much to get into, and I have a feeling I may need occasionally to be dragged away into the sunlight for a dose of Vitamin D and sanity, but fortunately, I have a hubby who is very good at supporting me when I need it, and at disabling my cell and internet access when I need that, too.
I can't wait!
