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“The modern PA is far removed from the traditional office secretary of the past who was expected to ‘take a letter’ and remain in the background,” says Claire Lister, managing director of Pitman Training, the UK’s leading IT and office skills training company.

“The responsibilities of today’s professional PA are wide-ranging and extremely demanding,” Claire continues. “From HR and marketing to accounts and event management – the majority of senior managers admit that they rely heavily on the contribution of their PA.”


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HR Marketing?

When the HR weds marketing-Corporate Trends-Companies A-Z -News-The Economic Times:

"given today’s talent bazaar, both these sciences were compelled to shake hands and share tools to form a new discipline- HR Marketing. As strange as it may sound, it relates to HR professionals employing classical marketing tools to do what they do best- which is almost every listed HR function. "

HR Executives - Don't get Caught Up in the Options Furor

With stock options widely used as perks to attract talent, personnel staff regularly were brought into executives’ machinations on options awards – often signing the relevant paperwork such as memos to employees or letters making job offers.

That means their fingerprints are on documents that can enter into the paper trails that prosecutors are using to build options-dating cases.

“HR people have to be careful,” said John Gamble, an attorney at Fisher & Phillips, an Atlanta firm specializing in labor and employment law. “Sometimes they get assignments that they need to think twice about.”




HR Executives Caught Up in Options Furor Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Employees, companies split on career growth

There is a disconnect between the career-development programs employers offer and the kinds of career development that employees want.

This is according to a global survey of nearly 1,000 executives and managers reported on the Society for Human Resource Management's Web site.



Human resources in brief IndyStar.com