Human Resource Mystery

1 month in and 2.5 months to go, I figured it was time to update everyone on my progress! Almost every week, I've been lucky to be able to work on projects across all 5 functional areas that I identified; it's been interesting to be able to vary my work and get a well-rounded Human Resource Management (HRM) experience right off the bat in my internship. These past two weeks, a lot of my work has focused on what many people think of when they hear the term Human Resources: talent acquisition; therefore, this will be the focus of my first blog post! Of all the categories I identified, I probably have the most experience within talent acquisition. The summer after my sophomore year at Vanderbilt, I got the opportunity to intern for a company called CultureFit, a small IT staffing and recruiting company based out of my hometown in the Chicago suburbs. In this role I got broad exposure to the various facets of recruiting, especially culture-based sourcing and recruiting. However,...

Hello hello and welcome to my blog! I hope I keep your attention long enough for you to follow my journey over the next 3.5 months; I somehow plan to simultaneously figure out how to publicly blog (never done that before) and pinpoint my career passions (definitely don't know what I'm doing with that). I'm so excited to spend the semester at redpepper, an advertising agency here in Nashville, TN, as an Operations Intern. I will be reporting to the Director of People Operations, and will spend the next 3 something months deep-diving into 5 different functional areas of Human Resource Management (talent acquisition, training and development, benefits/compensation, employee relations, and corporate culture) in order to figure out exactly where my future career passions lie. Every couple of weeks, I'll give you an update on my progress in one of these functional areas, and who knows maybe I'll learn a thing or two along the way! So that's it. Buckle up folks,...