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Dear Members,
First of all I would like to thank Merrill Martin who has
recently completed 2 consecutive terms as our President
and leader. Merrill is very positive spirit who brings good
things to everything he does and I’m sure I speak for all
of us when I say that we greatly appreciate the time and
energy he has dedicated to HRCA.
Secondly, let me thank all of you who have supported
my continued career growth and elected me into the
Presidents role for HRCA. I take this opportunity very
seriously and am looking forward to this chance to help
contribute to the success of the organization.
As this is currently my 4th year with HRCA I have had the
opportunity to share, work with, collaborate and
celebrate with many of you. I have also had the chance
to learn about the history of HRCA and the history of
many of our current and past members. I will use this
experience and knowledge along with all that I know of
our past successes and future goals to drive my focus
over the next fiscal year.
I spent a good part of our first quarter meeting with our
newly elected board to collaboratively define our focus
and goals. The road map these meetings inspired will
introduce the following changes and initiatives:
CHANGE - In the past HRCA has delivered anywhere
from 7 to 8 programs per year along with 1 Social and 1
Holiday party. While many of these programs have been
very successful there are consistently a few programs
every year that do not draw a large turnout. As a result
we have decided to deliver fewer programs allowing us
to focus on the quality and value of each program rather
than the number of programs. Our new schedule will
deliver 4 Programs and 2 Socials per fiscal year. In
addition we will change the format of the programs.
Previous programs have featured 1 Presenter or Subject
Expert. Future programs will feature a Panel of 2 or
more Subject Experts. This will allow our members to
capture more useful and applicable information in each
of the programs they attend.
CHANGE - This year will be the re-introduction of the
“HRCA Consultants Contacts List for Employers”.
Back in the good old days of the BrassRing job fair
HRCA use to produce a handout that included the
profiles and contact information of all of it’s members.
This handout was distributed to all of the employers who
purchased a booth at the job fair. This year we will
create a digital (pdf) copy of our membership’s profiles
and contact info and we will be distributing it to a large
number of HR Directors and Staffing managers in the
Silicon Valley via email. In addition we will be
approaching the Mercury News to discuss the possibility
of having a hardcopy of the Members contact list
distributed to all of the employers who purchase booths
at their job fair.
INITIATIVE - There will be a concerted effort for HRCA
to form mutually beneficial partnerships with companies
and other organizations in an effort to build our
membership and increase our visibility. This will include
discussions with LinkedIn, Silicon Valley’s Recruiters
Luncheon, SHRM, and several others.
INITIATIVE - There will be an upgrade of our current
website. We will be redesigning the layout as well as
integrating additional functionally that currently does not
exist including: on-line billing and membership renewal,
an HRCA Blog, On-Line Meeting-Minutes, and increased
Member Communication capabilities.
INITIATIVE – The board will be increasing visibility of
HRCA non-program activity to our membership through
increased communications to the membership with
monthly updates, monthly meeting reminders, and
quarterly announcements.
Why all the changes and initiatives? Our objective is to
add more value to you our current members and to
attract new members. We have set a goal for HRCA to
triple our current membership by the start of fiscal year
2008/2009.
I now would like to introduce the current board and
HRCA Committees Group for fiscal year 2007/2008. The
board will include: Ben Wong of Brocade as our elected
VP, Beverly Jacke of Apple who will graciously continue her role
as Treasurer, and we have split the role of Secretary and
have elected Steve Deem of Yahoo and Dan Harris of
VeriSign as Co-Secretary’s. The HRCA Committees will
include: Jose Mendoza of Sirf Technology who will move into the
Membership role. Greg Pecher who will continue to
manage the important role of Job Postings, and Terrie
Rayl who will continue to support Website Content. In
addition Merrill Martin will continue to hold the monthly
Town Hall meetings and Ben Wong will continue to
drive the resume reviews at the Mercury News Job
Fairs.
Let’s make 2008 another successful year for HRCA!
Sincerely,
Nathan Sanders
President - HRCA |
