Welcome to HR Pockets
I live, breath, eat and sleep human resources because I absolutely love interacting with people in the professional world.
On this website, I want to share those experiences with you.
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Why HR POCKETS?
As you follow along you’ll notice that I’m uncaringly sarcastic, which I think translates to comedic and this will help you understand the choosing of “hrpockets” as the title of this blog. My husband has successfully transformed me to this lover of comedians, one of them being Jim Gaffigan. On a very memorable road trip with […]Read More
#recruit
The majority of my HR experience is recruiting. It is something that I do well and I know I do it well. It’s a huge responsibility in any organization to oversee recruiting. You’re hiring a member that will either contribute to the success and vision of your company or hinder it. A good recruiter will filter […]Read More
Attitudes in the workplace
I couldn’t be happier that football season is in full swing: College, NFL & Fantasy… my life is once again complete. One player really shocked me today (& I’m not talking about RGIII)… Chris Johnson! I was the big voice previously screaming GIVE THAT MAN THE DAMN MONEY & now I’m scratching my head as I watch […]Read More
TRAINING
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A Baked Recap
I recently shared with you all about BakedHR, a YouTube channel Jazmine Wilkes and I started. You can also catch some content on Instagram. If you’re not subscribed to our channel or following us on IG yet, I just made it real easy for you to fix that! Anyway, I wanted to pop in and […]Read More
BakedHR
The blog has been quiet for a while now, even though it went through a really great makeover earlier this year (you could book your own update here: https://21adsmedia.com/ – Andrew is GREAT to work with!), but I’ve just been focused elsewhere. During all the ups and downs of 2020, and can I just admit […]Read More
Why’d you wear that?
I recently had a chance to catch up with some of my favorite local HR friends and let me just go on record now, that doesn’t happen enough! After catching up on other areas of life we did the usual: swapped weird stories, dissected everything around the one employee we can’t seem to make happy, […]Read More
Before sexual harassment makes it to the workplace
Before we experienced sexual harassment at work, we experienced it somewhere else.
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Kristina Hutto Minyard
HR and Talent Acquisition Manager by day, HR writer and Speaker by all the other hours. Currently the co-host of #DisruptHRHSV and State Conference Co-Chair for Alabama’s largest annual HR conference. You can find a little bit of everything here at hrpockets: HR Lessons, how HR impacts Management, free Recruiting tools for those Recruiters on a budget, Parenting woes (and wins), stories of friendship, maybe some shopping, and whatever else I decide… I mean, I bring my whole self to work so it’s time to bring my whole self to the blog.
I’m a follower of Christ, Wife, Mom, Blogger, problem solver, Recruiter, certified in HR, touch-me-not, former runner, cat person, Netflix and Hulu binger.