eople do not fear goingthere as they used to. Ten to twenty years ago, if you had to go to your human resourcedepartment, you felt nervous, as if you were going to get fired or you had done something wrong. Today human resource managers do many different tasks other then just firing people. Peoplecome to them when they have questions now and it is not a department to fear anymore. MissYoung does not feel that much else has really changed in the field except for that. I learned a lot from interviewing Vicky Young. She put a human side to all that we havebeen talking about in the classroom. You can not truly identify with something until youexperience it or get to see how it really works. I learned that the job is constantly changing and isdifferent everyday. I thought it was like most jobs, where you do the same type of taskseveryday, but Miss Young made me aware to the fact that her job is new everyday. I also did notrealize how important people skills were in the field of human resource management. While I wasinterviewing Miss Young, she was constantly being contacted in person and on the phone aboutdifferent topics. In her scoring of what is important in her job, Miss Young cited facilitatingchange and recognizing and solving problems as the two biggest parts of her job. This tells methat she is in the thick of things and that she is around when new things are on the verge. I findthis very exciting because I think that it would be fun trying to implement change and seeing whatyour decisions are doing to an organization. I also saw how computers are very important in theworkplace. Miss Young could not do most of her work without her computer, all of the payrolland important files on the employees at York College are on computers. Miss Young must goand use this information everyday. There are problems like in any other job but her computersystem is very important to her. It was very interesting to hear how important th...
