A Lot of Times We Are Called ''Paper-Pushers''

As HR practitioner, are you a Cost-Center orThen I realized; if only I knew this skill when I was yet
Profit-Center? How do you contribute to the bottomlinea manager, life could have been easier and more
results of your organization?productive. With that realization comes the desire to
By the way, this is not just for HR people but also forhelp fellow HR practitioners, that you may have the
non-HR managers who understand that humanshort-route and avoid the road less traveled.
resource management is a line function.One of the most valuable office skills you can learn is
So what? We tend to justify, but deep inside we don'thow to effectively use Microsoft Word. You may not
feel good about it. Oh yes, it necessary for theknow it, but MS Word has a lot of excellent and
functionality of an organization. And I personally hate itunderutilized features. It will take us a whole book to
when they tell me - it is a necessary evil. Because nodiscuss details, so I decided to give you a
matter how necessary it is, the perceptioncomplimentary copy of an e-book "The Secrets of
remains that it is evil.Microsoft Word." It is actually sold at $14.95 but I got
This is the path I've chosen, and I love HR no matterpermission from the author to give it to you for free,
how others call it. In fact, paper-pushing is just one ofonly if you're interested. Please send me an email so I
the myriad of activities an HR is expected to do. I hadcan reply and attach the e-book.
so much aversion to paperworks and administrativeHope you learned something of value today. Stay
duties during my time, and was never really good attuned for our next lessons!
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justification can change that reality, even until now.learn pc basics - from the perspective of a newbie:
Reminiscing . . .
Before the advent of computers, we only had that oldIt's not just about MS Word. It's everything about your
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computers dominated the world, people have difficulty- Let me know if you need help along the way. I'm
trying to adopt. There was one, for example, who triedjust an email away.
to erase wrong spelling using a correction fluidPlease feel free to email me your comments,
(which we called "white ink" back then) - on hisreactions, or suggestions so that others may also
computer monitor! You can just imagine how his pcbenefit. It is one way where we can help our fellow
monitor looked like with so many erasures. I don't knowHR practitioners grow and improve in this
if this really happened, but the story spread across thesuper-complicated field of people-management.
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