egular basis. The law plays a big part in being a human resourcemanager. You must follow the different laws and how they are changing in your field. You mustbe aware if a new law is in the works or has been passed that will effect you or the people you aredealing with. Miss Young reads law publications and uses the Internet in order to stay up to dateon what is going on with the laws that affect her and her job. These are the basic skills that MissYoung feels that you need to learn and possess to be a great human resource manager.Miss Young believes that the number one reason why people fail at being a humanresource manager is because they lack people skills. You must be able to communicate becauseso much of your job is dealing with people. She also feels that you will fail if you can not beorganized. You may be able to do your job for a little while but sooner or later it will catch up toyou and you will either have to become organized or go and look for a different profession. A lotof the knowledge and skills that you use as a human resource manager will be learned on the job. If you are not willing to learn and adapt to your business then you will not make a good manager. Seminars are an important source of learning for human resource managers. Miss Young attendsabout two or three seminars a year and the knowledge learned at these seminars is invaluable toher. She feels that these seminars are very good learning tools and they also help to make youaware to what is going on outside of your business in the world of human resource management. Some of these seminars York College asks her to attend, but many of them she hears aboutherself and she inquires into whether she can go to them. Many of the times the college willapprove it and they will also pay for the seminar for her. She will go to these seminars and learnways to improve her job and bring that knowledge back to the college and try and implement hernew ideas. Som...
