For this week’s post our class was tasked with taking three tests to determine our stress levels, stress coping mechanisms, and if we are Type  A personality. Each test was relatively simple and gave back some interesting results. The first test, I received a score of 200. This means that in my life currently I…

This week’s discussion is all about compensation and benefits and how they may influence one’s behavior. This topic led me to think about a time where my behavior was influenced by an alteration in my pay scale. I was working a seasonal job that off and on for a few years and I had gotten…

This blog post is about the interview process. Looking back on my past interviews and relating them to this week’s learning material I can know see that there were some effective and non effective strategies used. I noticed that for many of my interviews they were mainly unstructured or had a job knowledge structure. This…

This blog discussion will go over the complexity of developing and maintaining job descriptions. Job descriptions are used mainly for providing a narrative or description of a job’s tasks, duties, and responsibilities. Even though to most of us these job descriptions do not seem to hold any significance, they are actually vital to creating a…

Looking at the Fortune 500’s top 100 companies to work for, I asked myself one question, “How does the employees view their company?”. Asking this question gave myself the mindset of how each company on this list was practicing common HR principles. Out of the 100 companies, I choose 3 to observe the response of…