I’m transfering to another class because the husband is leaving for a long-term consulting gig (!!) and this is the last week of unemployment we’ll share for a very long time. I’m not ready to spend three days away in a dimly-lit hotel room with out him.
I’ve got priorities, yo.
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Are you like me and attending the SHRM certification prep course in Chicago because you didn’t have enough HRCI recertification credits?
[Grrrrr.]
I’ve had my SPHR since 2001 and passed my exams with flying colors in both 2001 and 2004; however, after eight months of unemployment, I’m afraid to walk into my local exam center and take the test cold. I’m not even sure I remember anything about my favorite SHRM topic — The Taft-Hartley Act.
So I’ll be dressed in my very finest business casual attire and trying not to fall asleep in a dimly-lit hotel room in Chicago. Won’t you join me?
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Love to join you, but I’ll be getting things organized at the office before I wander off for a 2-day SHRM class (Essentials of HRM – for I am but a mere HR coordinator who knows little of the glory of benefits, compensation, Taft-Hartley, doughnuts at meetings, or the secret HR handshake).
Don’t forget to visit your Starbucks on Tuesday to find out just what the bleep the “Venti big” event is.
Good Luck!
Lemme get this straight: You’re inviting the Blogosphere to join you in a dimly lit hotel room? That sounds great!
You are taking the exam for the 3rd time? Why in the heck did you just get your 60 credits? I will never take that thing again. Pure hell. Good luck though. You know you can do a bunch of SHRM webinars and get easy credits or go hang out at your local chapter and claim those as well?
@Perrik — pLease, anyone can be a certified HR professional. It’s not rocket science, yo.
@Lisa — Thanks!
@Rob — I should probably rephrase this post, eh?
@Bryan — It’s much easier for me to take the test than figure out how to acquire enough credits. Maybe next time, yo. I have three years. PS – Who the hell got rid of the lifetime certification?? JERKS!
@Laurie – Anyone with two years of exempt-level HR can be a certified HR professional.
Hourly peons like me can only dream our little dreamy dreams about certification, then sigh and return to the cold reality of filing and sticking “Sign Here” tags on numerous bits of paperwork.
And we don’t get doughnuts.