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Interested in Volunteering for HRA-NCA? Actively seeking volunteers for enhancing HRA-NCA's Web
site in 2005. Contact Rob Swatland,
Vice President, Communications.
The HRA-NCA
2004 Compensation Survey Report is available for purchase now. This
is a resource you need for your job!
Professional Development Series Announced for 2005:
Advancing Your Career - Secure and Maintain Your Seat at The Executive
Table
Special Pricing on All Four Seminars!
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This is
the e-mail newsletter of the Human Resource Association of the
National Capital Area (HRA-NCA), a proud affiliated chapter of the
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). HRA-NCA serves HR
professionals throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area
with a monthly HR Speaker Series, many other professional development
opportunities and the area's best compensation survey.
Don't miss the DC SHRM
Conference on January 28th! There are only a few seats still available.
Don't miss out - Register
today!
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· HR Today - Facing the Challenges of
Tomorrow, NOW!
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Start off
2005 with the right knowledge and contacts to advance your career. Join
250 of your HR colleagues at the DC SHRM Conference! Whether you need
PHR/SPHR recertification credits, wish to enhance your skills to face the
challenges of the new year, or want to meet new professional contacts,
you should not miss this conference.
 The conference kick-off features Mark
Gorkin, the "Stress Doc," psychotherapist, international
speaker and author. Attend a full day of learning with hands-on
workshops, panels and presentations by HR practitioners and consultants.
Choose from 15 educational sessions, covering important need-
to-know topics.
- Managing Legal Issues - 5 informative
sessions!
- HR Competencies - 5 dynamic sessions!
- Professional and Personal
Growth and Development - 5 exciting sessions!
Learn about new HR products and services during our Vendor
Expo while networking with your colleagues during lunch and an
afternoon reception. And, you may win one of many door prizes,
including a trip to the SHRM Conference in San Diego in June 2005!
Many
thanks to our conference sponsors:
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Complete
details about the conference, educational sessions and registration...
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· Interested in PHR/SPHR Certification?
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Here's another New Year's
Resolution: attain PHR/SPHR certification. HRA-NCA can help you. Join the
certification exam preparation class beginning on February 18, 2005. This excellent class in several
sessions will be taught by Paul Shibelski, SPHR, our area's best
instructor in certification preparation. You will learn a great deal
about Human Resources, prepare for the self- exam administered by HRCI,
AND you'll have fun and meet some great new friends in class. Plan to take
a big step for your career!
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Certification
Preparation Information and Registration...
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· Diversity is Destiny...
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The Future is Now: Changing
Demographics of the Workforce, February 9, 2005.
  As the global
market has expanded, the world has become smaller! Particularly in the Washington DC area, we are faced with the opportunity
to meld ever- evolving diverse population groups into our corporate
cultures - and the responsibility of every human resource professional is
to embrace his or her role as a change agent. The February 9th HRA-NCA Speaker
Presentation welcomes Debbie Smith of the Walter Kaitz Foundation
and Michele Synegal of Management Dynamics to discuss this
important topic. Join us for dinner and this interesting presentation.
Send your questions and observations in advance!
A special thanks to our sponsor for
this program: DCJobs.com.
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February 9th
Program Information and Registration...
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· Advance Your Career by Getting a
"Seat at the Executive Table"
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 HRA-NCA is presenting a series of four exciting seminars to
prepare you for advancing your career right up to the executive table.
The first of these seminar will be held on February 24th, presented by Jim
Ball of The
Goals Institute. This seminar will focus on goal-making and
-attaining strategies and behaviors, both personal and team-oriented.
Special
pricing is offered on all four seminars: only $225 for HRA-NCA members
and $300 for non- members. Individual seminars are priced at $75 for
HRA-NCA members and $100 for non-members. The price is right, the
location is great - don't miss this opportunity to hone your leadership
skills and promote your career.
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Read about the
series and register...
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· Help Your Employees Participate in
Disaster Relief
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SHRM has established a Tsunami
Relief Resource Page to provide information on how you or your employees
can donate to tsunami disaster relief. It also offers resources on
effective workplace giving.
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SHRM Disaster
Relief Information...
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· Web Site News
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Take a look at the newly revised
"Job Bank" page of the HRA-NCA Web site for information about
WORC, the Workforce Organizations for Regional Collaboration, and their
special offer for HRA-NCA members. WORC can supply your organization with
just the right candidates, and you'll be doing a community service at the
same time!
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HR Recruiting
Information...
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· HRA-NCA Strategic Business Awards
Program
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A Salute to Human Resource
Professionals Achieving Top Performance and Bottom Line Results
Announcing the second HRA-NCA
Awards program! Mark you calendar for the gala dinner event at which the
winners will be announced: April 20, 2005. The Strategic Business Awards
nomination process and deadline(s) will be announced soon. Aimed at
recognizing human resource initiatives that impact the company's bottom
line, awards will be given in three categories:
- Effective Workforce Planning
- Successful Worklife Strategies
- Excellence in Community Service
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HRA-NCA
Strategic Business Awards...
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· New Member Orientation - Meet Some New
Friends!
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The next HRA-NCA New Member
Orientation will take place immediately preceding the February 9th
program at Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel. Learn about HRA-NCA and meet your
HR colleagues from 5:30 - 6:15. This New Member Orientation will focus
on those who have joined from October 2004 through January 2005. However,
any member is welcome to come and learn about HRA-NCA. Please RSVP no
later then Sunday, February 6 to BOTH Russell Klosk, VP-Membership and Martha Heisel, HRA-NCA Administrator.
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· HRA-NCA Member News
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You may look up these and other
members' information in the HRA-NCA online membership directory, using
various search categories. Log in through the "Member Login" on
the HRA-NCA Web site home page. Keep your membership record up-to- date
so we don't lose touch!
New Positions and Certifications
- Clyde Blassengale, Jr., PHR, In-House Corporate
Recruiter, Associated Press Broadcast
- Beatrice Camino, SPHR, Human Resources
Generalist, Quadel Consulting Corporation
- Dawn Gallup Graf, PHR, CCP, Senior Human Resources
Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Sonya Ousley, SPHR, Director, Human Resources,
SES-American
Welcome to New
Members
- Susan Burns, SPHR, Business Manager, Cox
Newspapers
- Vanina Colombo, Assistant Manager, Human
Resources, VIPdesk
- Lawrence Greene, PHR, Manager, Human Resources, National
Committee on Quality Assurance
- Renee Hamilton, Human Resources Manager, KBR
- Hilarie Hoting, Vice President, Administration,
GMA
- Kimberly Schafer, Benefits/Operations Manager,
Westerman, Hattori, Caniels & Adrian, LLP
- David Theil, COO, Psychiatric Genomics, Inc.
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Access the
HRA-NCA "Members Only" Web site...
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· Thank You to Our Sponsors
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HRA-NCA invites organizations to
sponsor our newsletter - or any of the following: chapter meetings, the
January 28th conference, the Web site, etc. Interested? Contact Bob Corlett, HRA-NCA's
Vice President, Marketing and Community Relations, or access
our information on the Web site. Information on sponsoring the
conference, is
also available on our Web site. For this issue, we sincerely thank
the following sponsor.
 Goetz Printing
Company is a sheet-fed commercial printer that supports the
production of your marketing and business collateral. We have been
serving associations, non profits and commercial clients since 1927. We
continue to earn and build professional business relationships utilizing
options and alternatives that helps improve quality and cost.
 Smart HR provides clients
with a world-class benefits management and HR support program -- a
solution unmatched in the marketplace. Experience our refreshing
approach, unique free services and superior customer support. Smart HR
has redefined benefits management. See
what you are missing!
 Troy University offers adult
students the competitive cost value of a public institution with the
flexibility of an accelerated program that can be finished in as little
as 15 months. Visit us at www.tsuar.edu
or call 800-645-TROY (8769) for more details on graduate and
undergraduate degree offerings in the Washington DC area. Registration
for the March term starts soon!
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Information
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