Ask the HR Expert!20 Apr

Get FREE advice on HR issues and questions: Kat Steinmetz will be offering free 30-minute sessions on HR consulting and best practices at pariSoma on May 19 from 1– 5pm.  There will be six 30-min time slots available.

Kat Steinmetz is a Human Resources and Organizational Development Consultant with over 15 years of experience and a specialty in working with creative companies, non-profits and helping start-ups get set up.

Her expertise is in such areas as developing, training, and retaining employees; recruiting and hiring; employment practices, process, policy, and procedure creation and development; compensation analysis and strategy; organizational planning; training; compliance with state and federal employment and labor laws; conflict resolution and performance feedback.  She has a large network of resources and experts which can be tapped for services such as health benefits and insurance brokers, worker’s comp, employment law, facilitators, and trainers. Kat has extensive experience in the tech and creative industries and she excels in connecting people and resources, finding, hiring and retaining talented employees, and developing people to their fullest potential.

Past clients include: Black Rock City (Burning Man), Zivity.com, Slide, Magenic, CTN (Computer Technology Network), Black Rock Solar and Black Rock Arts Foundation.

2 Responses to “Ask the HR Expert!”

  1. Rang Kalameard (December 12th, 2010 at 7:15 am)

    Greetings Kat, hope you are doing fine.

    Could you please send me your advise, comments, responses…etc concerning below two questions?

    Question 1

    1. If you were working in a company that due to financial constrains and changes in business direction had to reduce its personnel by 30% as a cost saving measure: what would be the plan that you would put together to manage that exercise? Kindly note that the company makes widgets, has 2 main offices in France and 5 sub offices in the main regions around the globe. It has a total of 25,000 employees globally with proportion of international staff to local staff of 1 to 2. Kindly note that the functions most affected by the financial situation are those related to the production and distribution of widgets. In providing your plan, please indicate what would be the proportion of local to international staff that you would reduce, what kind of counseling you would be providing, what termination benefits, what specific action you would take in consideration of those staff members that you would be downsizing. Please indicate whether there would be any policy in consideration of your plan.

    Question 2

    2. Please give a global analysis of what are today the most salient human resources challenges for employers, especially for those engaged in non-profit and intergovernmental sectors. What is it that from your experience you would bring to the Organization to address those challenges?

    Best regards,

    Rang Kalameard
    HR/Admin Senior Manager
    ACDI/VOCA International NGO-Iraq

  2. Anne @pariSoma (December 12th, 2010 at 7:45 pm)

    Hi Rang,

    We’ll send Kat your questions and she’ll get in touch if she can!

    Anne

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