Follow up last month’s lunch & learn on making your first hire with this month’s presentation on how to actually onboard your hire! Debra Best, founder of Deb Best Practices – HR 911/411, will discuss the ins and outs of what founders need to consider from an HR perspective. Unlike a large corporation, most startups don’t have a dedicated HR employee, much less a team. Attend this session to avoid many of the common (and sometimes costly) headaches that arise from simply not knowing what you need to know! With over 35 years of experience, Deb has plenty of cautionary tales to share.
Takeaways:
The basics of “People Ops” and having an infrastructure in place
Administrative details for legal compliance
Understanding the uniqueness of the NYS regulatory environment
Overall “Best Practices”
About the Speaker
Deb Best, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Owner and Principal of Deb Best Practices, has more than 35 years of state-wide and national business, recruitment / IT recruitment, change management, stakeholder communications and senior human resources / people operations leadership experience for Fortune 5, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer and supply-chain publicly and privately held companies, including General Electric, Trans World Entertainment and Boston Scientific, as well as non-profit, statewide and national associations, academic, medical and public-sector organizations, including the State of New York. Central to her work as an HR Practitioner is to partner with leaders at all levels to define and leverage both talent and challenges to meet needs, which in turn maximizes success for both the organization and the individual.
A graduate of The University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in English, Deb received her SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) certification from The Society of Human Resources Management in 1998, and her SHRM-SCP (Senior Certified Professional) designation in 2015. She is also a trained community (NYS) and workplace dispute Mediator, as well as an authorized Everything DiSC® Partner. Deb was a long-time columnist and blogger for the Albany Times Union’s Women@Work Magazine.