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Article: Find your mentor: to keep their careers from stalling, HR professionals can set up informal mentoring relationships.(Career Development Agenda)
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- HRMagazine
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- March 1, 2004
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"It's tough to be a one-person HR show," says Shirley Pincus, SPHR, director of human resources for a nonprofit training organization in Rolling Meadows, Ill. "It's even tougher," she says, when you're part of "a small company with limited resources [that are] spread out across the United States and Canada."
Pincus is with I-CAR, which provides training in automobile collision repairs, and she needs to stay current on employment laws not only in Illinois but also in other states. Fortunately, she found a way to do it--through an informal mentoring relationship with others in her field. "It's especially gratifying," she says, "to befriend HR colleagues who can ...