Comments on: Seven No B.S. HR Career Strategies Your Boss Definitely Won’t Tell You About!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:51:01 +0000

Your 7 strategies are so true, spoken from someone who wishes she had understood these over a year ago.

By: hossam hussein

hossam hussein — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:37:03 +0000

Hi
its perfect book, the 2 chapter is complete with information , best of the best its real no one giveing the advise

By: Frances

Frances — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:02:46 +0000

Alan, this is a great article, the fact of the matter is that it happens to most of us. I agree with #5, no matter how hard you work if you don’t have an advocate to promote you, you won’t go places. You need to be your own marketing agent otherwise you will continue being at the end of the line and no one will pull you to the frontline.

By: Michael Haberman, SPHR

Michael Haberman, SPHR — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:29:53 +0000

Interesting stuff. I look forward to reading other material. Thanks for including me on the blog list, I am flattered.

By: Monika

Monika — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:41 +0000

This was a great article, refreshing for sure. It was exactly on and the funny thing is, I left PepsiCo (QTG) 8/07. I wanted to transfer to HR (where I had a degree) and was told, “if you don’t work for me, you don’t work for anybody”.

Lovely. I am in the midst of going through the SPHR training course at DePaul, and last Saturday I came to the realization that: we have come a long way in HR, but not far enough, I can’t work in HR anymore because what we are taught and what actually happens are not the same, ever.

It just did not line up with my values anymore. Too hypocritical. So guess what, I quit HR. I decided I needed to be true to my real self. I am a creative, and I am going to work for myself. Goodbye forever HR.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:24:27 +0000

Charlene – thanks for clarifying the Baby Boomer cutoff for Obama – much appreciated!

Charles – thanks for the great comments & additional insights – totally agree on your comments on the reinvention of the BB’s. On #6, the strategy is specific and targeted at GenX… and that is for them to step up to the plate and lead.

best,
Alan

By: Charles van Heerden

Charles van Heerden — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:56:12 +0000

Hi Alan, love your no BS approach. Agree with our key points, but as I can also be pretty direct, please allow me the following comments:

#6 is not a strategy. Understand your sentiments, but what are the strategic implications? In dealing with the aftermath of the GFC there was a serious need for baby boomers who have experienced previous recessions.

The real challenge is for baby boomers to reinvent themselves, not too move to the basement and lick their wounds.

The strategy is for companies to develop HR system, practices and policies that are meaningful for each generation. From a career perspective, it also means to embrace the many opportunities to grow and develop your career.

By: Charlene Guss

Charlene Guss — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:26:47 +0000

Alan, a lot of people get this wrong: Barack Obama IS a Baby Boomer;he was born in 1961. If he had been born AFTER 1964 he would not be.

But back to your point — Obama is contemporary in his thinking — and it’s a trait worth emulating.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:18:19 +0000

One of the best HR articles I’ve ever read. I’m looking forward to reading your book.

By: Lisa Rosendahl

Lisa Rosendahl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:49:44 +0000

Hello Alan, this is a great article and I am with Priscilla, I am printing this off right now and will poke around your sigt to see what else I can find! Thanks for visiting HR Thoughts and for mentioning me above (you have me a Linda, not Lisa though). Have a great weekend!