SPHR Certificate

Yeah - I received my SPHR Certificate yesterday. That was much faster than I was expecting. I'm so happy to have it. They sent a cool SPHR lapel pin as well. I'm wearing it today. : ) It was cool to take the test electronically and know the resuts right away. I took the PHR when they were scantron exams, and it was torture waiting to hear if I had passed or not. Now I just have to make sure to get all my recertification credits over the next few years. The Gulf Coast Symposium certainly helped with that. Good luck to all of you who are taking the test in June.

The ABC Expo last night was interesting. It's the first time that I've seen that type of thing done in reverse. The people who were trying to sell things went around to the booths and the people in the booths represented potential clients. In the past, I've only seen events where the people selling things were the ones in the booths. Our Purchasing Manager was very popular at the event, as you can imagine. One interesting thing that happened - the previous manager of one of my new hires stopped by and was jokingly giving me a hard time about recruiting his employee away from him. Small world. Of course, I told him about our great benefits and that he should consider a career with us as well. : )