CRHRA Business Meeting and Volunteer Recognition

Join us on Thursday night June 18th at the Holiday Inn Albany on Wolf Road for a celebration of our volunteers and their continuing commitment to helping our chapter “serve the profession and advance the professional”. Our wonderful volunteers provide hours support to the various CRHRA committees. Because of their dedication CRHRA is able to maintain and continuously improve the website, provide meaningful and insightful programming for meetings and conferences, provide chapter members with information through our newsletter, facebook, linkedin and other social networking sites and keep us in the public’s eye through public relation and marketing.

Our theme this year is to celebrate our “stars”. We are going to make everyone a star with a fun evening of KARAOKE! Who doesn’t love Karaoke? After the annual business meeting and installment of the new board we will cut loose with hors d’oeuvres, drinks and fun, fun, fun.

Our volunteers are our guests for this fun-filled and what surely will turn out to be an event-filled evening. Who knows maybe we have a star in the making in our midst. Cost for non-volunteers is $25 for members, $32 for guests and students are $10. A cash bar will be available for the length of the meeting.

Registration – 5:00 – 5:30 PM
Meeting – 5:30 – 6:30 PM
The fun starts – 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Tom DiNapoli to Address Business Leaders & HR Professionals at One-Day Conference

The New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, will be the morning keynote speaker at the 2009 Capital Region Human Resource Association annual one-day conference on March 19, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Turf on Wolf Road. Comptroller DiNapoli, who earned a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, will discuss his views of how the New York State economy is affecting businesses throughout the state, both short and long term. This conference, themed “Sustainable Human Resources – Supporting our Organizations and our World” includes a combination of education, networking, and vendor relations benefiting human resource professionals and business leaders across all industries. For details regarding the event, please contact CRHRA at 518-463-8687 or visit www.crhra.org.

Human Resource Association Supports Unemployed Members with Voucher System

As this economy continues to slow and many of our colleagues are losing jobs, it is critical for local professionals to continue networking to maintain connections and seek new job opportunities. One local professional chapter is helping its unemployed members to maintain their professional connections without any additional financial hardship. The Capital Region Human Resource Association (CRHRA) has established a confidential Voucher System to assist members in career transition with their job search and development. To ensure that members can continue to connect with their colleagues, CRHRA offers an opportunity for active members who are currently unemployed to continue attending up to two meetings (per year) at no cost to them The average cost per meeting is $30. The CRHRA Workforce Readiness Committee and Board of Directors hope this program will help unemployed members with critical networking opportunities important for a successful job search, especially during challenging economic times. For information about CRHRA, call 463-8687 or visit www.crhra.org.