We're continuing our People Pathway series with a classic HR position: Generalist. This is a very valuable role that organizations use for a variety of purposes from strategy to payroll. Now, let's take a deep dive into the world of HR Generalist and what they contribute to organizations overall. What is an HR Generalist? An HR Generalist is a role that operates most often in smaller organizations with fewer distinct subparts of HR. Someone in this role would handle a wide r
Hello fellow HRD faculty, students, alumni, and friends! We’re kicking off a brand new blog series that gives you the inside scoop on different subfields of the HR world. This week we begin with Compensation and Benefits . Dealing with the total rewards of any organization is a tough job and requires skills like empathy and communication to help people understand the policies and limitations related to properly compensating an organization's employees. Now, let's take a deep
The Fulbright Program, an international exchange program sponsored by the US government, offers grants to study, teach and conduct research for U.S. citizens to go abroad and for non-U.S. citizens to come to the United States. There are 155 participating countries and over the past 78 years, over 325,000 individuals have been selected to be a part of this program. One of our very own Villanova HRD students was one of them. We reached out to Kelsey Fenner, the HRD student who
