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Insights on human resources for project managers

Insights on human resources for project managers

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Insights on human resources for project managers

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- One of my favorite leaders, Jack Welsh, likes to say that team with the best players wins. Any organization is really just a group of people who choose to work together. Those people are probably the most valuable resource that a company has. In this lesson, we'll look at the processes involved in managing human resources and why they are so important for project managers to understand. When you stop to think about it, HR may have the broadest responsibilities of any group in the company. Let's start with recruiting. The human resources team is responsible for finding candidates who are qualified to fill roles with the company. When there's an opening, human resources will create a requisition or a job req to authorize hiring someone to fill it. That req will also have a job description. Recruiters use the job description to find candidates who are qualified to fill the req. Now let's talk about compensation and…

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