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MONICA BELL: March Consultant of the Month

by Sharon Armstrong, owner
Sharon Armstrong and Associates

Increase Recruiting and Hiring Efficiency & Effectiveness

Even though you may be doing a lot less hiring right now, this is a great time to take a good, solid look at your recruiting and hiring process and the tools you are using. If modifications or enhancements need to be made, now is a good time to do so. It’s also a great time to fine-tune the interviewing and recruiting skills of your HR/Recruiting staff and others.

Combining her teaching, recruiting, management, business analysis, and systems expertise, Monica Bell shares her wealth of knowledge with clients. You will benefit and learn immediately by working with Monica as she is a professional, accountable, business savvy and generous consultant.

Monica believes in sharing her expertise so that others will benefit from it. Utilizing business process improvement methods, Monica assists companies and organizations, including government contractors, in achieving their hiring goals and improving their processes. Regardless of size, all companies can benefit from Monica’s expertise.

Monica is an accomplished consultant with over seventeen years of experience improving recruiting processes, training professional recruiters, managing recruiting projects, and developing recruitment strategies. Her recruitment experience follows a successful twelve year career as a business systems analyst, project manager, and software developer.

Monica knows the importance of standard yet flexible processes, effective internal communication, and sound and appropriate training especially in the HR, recruiting, and hiring function of an organization.

HRIS, Recruitment Management, Applicant Tracking, and other HR computing applications all help the human resources function of today’s organizations function effectively. But those tools must be appropriate for the organization. Monica assists her clients in defining their requirements, evaluating products, and implementing the best system for their needs.

Monica teaches her “Fundamentals of Recruiting” course to corporate Human Resource departments. She modifies and customizes the course to meet each client’s needs. She also performs one-on-one training with recruiters and anyone in an organization who is involved in interviewing candidates. Her course can also be broken down and delivered in modules by topic area where appropriate to meet a client’s needs.

Monica’s services include:

  • Process assessment, recommendations for modification and enhancement
  • Process Documentation
  • Training and education for HR staff, recruiters, and all those who interview candidates
  • Management
  • Recruiting Strategy Development and Implementation
  • Business needs analysis prior to software selection
  • Software systems evaluation, selection, implementation ( for example: HRIS, RMS, ATS, Payroll, Performance Management)
  • Internal and External Communication programs (web, intranet, advertising, etc.)

Monica holds an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Connecticut and is a graduate of the Chubb Institute for Computer Science.
Call us to learn more about Monica, Camille or the other HR Consultants, OD Specialists, Trainers, Coaches and Keynoters.

If you believe any information in this newsletter will benefit a colleague, please feel free to share it. If you’d like to hire Monica, contact Sharon Armstrong and Associates.

Read about our other Consultants of the Month.

IN THE NEWS: "Blog Business World" reviews The Essential Performance Review Handbook

August 27, 2010, Blog Business World — After Blogger Wayne Hurlbert conducted an in-depth Q&A with HR expert Sharon Armstrong, and published the interview on his popular Blog Business World, the article got picked up by dozens of other bloggers this week. “It’s amazing to see the power of the Internet when it comes to spreading the word,” says Armstrong, the author of “The Essential Performance Review Handbook,” which is available on Amazon.com for about $10. Read the entire article on Blog Business World.

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Speaking Engagements

September 9, 2010
Office of Inspector General/OPM: Performance Appraisals: Blunders, Bloopers & Brilliance: 10 Strategies for Success

September 15, 2010
HRA-NCA, Washington, DC: The Essential Performance Review Handbook

September 21, 2010
IPMA-HR Eastern Region Training and Development Conference: Performance Appraisals: Blunders, Bloopers & Brilliance: 10 Strategies for Success

November 11, 2010
Project SAME: Performance Appraisals: Blunders, Bloopers & Brilliance: 10 Strategies for Success

December 2, 2010
Dulles, VA SHRM: The Essential Performance Review Handbook

April 12, 2011
Leesburg, VA SHRM: The Essential Performance Review Handbook

Workshops

September 10, 2010
Thermopylae Sciences & Technology: Behavioral Interviewing

September 22, 2010
National Gallery of Art: Conducting Effective Performance Appraisal Discussions

November 10, 2010
Center for Nonprofit Advancement: Performance Appraisals

November 16, 2010
American Health Care Association: Performance Appraisals

December 3, 2010
City of Alexandria: Behavorial Interviewing

December 9, 2010
Farmington Country Club: Fundamentals of Management: Supervising Up & Down

HR Consultants to the Rescue


ANDRIA CORSO: September Consultant of the Month

ANDRIA CORSO has 16 years experience as a Human Resources leader who works with clients to develop leadership skills and talent strategies that that align with business strategy and drive results. She is an organizational and leadership development coach and Strategic HR consultant with areas of expertise in career and leadership development, talent and succession management, and executive coaching.


If you need quick and competent HR Consultants, OD Specialists, Trainers, Coaches, or Keynote Speakers, let us help.

Advice from Barbara & Sharon

Career Corner: What is the best way to explain a gap in your resume?

by Sharon Armstrong
owner, Sharon Armstrong and Associates
author, The Essential HR Handbook
January 2010

In the last issue of Career Corner, I asked for feedback from readers who had questions about any question they had regarding looking for a new job. Among them was “How should one effectively use social media in a job search?”

Here are a few more questions that intrigued me, and hopefully will provide some great insight for job seekers. Please keep them coming!

And this just in: My questions are being published on a new online magazine for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs called Be Inkandescent. Check it out! Who knows — your next question just might be posted on it. Send any career-related to me at Sharon@SharonArmstrongAndAssociates.com.

Question: What is the best way to explain a gap in your resume – meaning if you have been out of work for a period of time, due to whatever reason, how best to illustrate that?