Nick is a Human Resources Specialist with TopLine Federal Credit Union, a Minnesota-based not-for-profit and member-owned financial services cooperative. Nick’s role is to work with all of the company’s hiring managers to find great talent for open positions as well as oversee new hire on-boarding to ensure each candidate gets off to a great start. Since the field of human resources can take on many forms, Nick encourages any interested students to spend some time shadowing or interning in different environments to see where you can envision yourself thriving.
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My name's Nick Lemke. I'm an HR specialist, Human Resource specialist. So basically what I do in my job is I do recruitment and onboarding for my company. I work for Topline Federal Credit Union. So I get to work with all of our hiring managers to try to find great talent for them and then once we find that great talent, make sure they have a great start at Topline. You know, I might get a job from a manager saying, "Hey, we're going to start recruiting for, let's say, a teller," and I say, "Okay, great." So I'll get that posted onto our job boards to help start attracting talent. They'll apply through our applicant system, all that stuff. But I might do some phone screens, so talking with candidates, seeing if they are a good fit, if they're qualified for an interview essentially. And then once we get them scheduled for an interview, actually have that interview, sit down with our managers, talk with those candidates, ask them questions, things like that, really find out if they're a great fit for the position and for the company, and then do some back-office stuff, background checks, personality profiles, all that fun jazz. Prepping offers is a part of my job too, so I work with our hiring managers on pay rates and start dates and all that fun jazz. How does the offer fit into our pay structure? What's fair for them? What's fair for everyone else? That's actually a lot more work than it sounds like. And then if I have an onboarding that day, a new hire would come in and I'd sit down and go over all the new hire paperwork, but then also talk to them about our culture and our policies and everything that. Really help them feel comfortable in the job, 'cause starting a new job's scary. Everyone knows that. So making them feel comfortable and then also helping them just kind of, I don't want to say holding their hand, but you know make sure that we're guiding them through the first couple days so they don't feel like they're lost, they don't feel like they're just thrown in the woods. Feel like they're really, you know, that we're propping them up for success. Lot of different things going on during the day. Also, we'll help out with the rest of our HR department helping with payroll, helping with benefits, helping with employee relations issues, all sorts of fun stuff. Lot of different things I can do during the day.
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