Michele Armstrong

Michele Armstrong is a HR senior manager at Vulcan, Inc. She worked 8 years for this company. First of all, I would like to say that I’m graduating this quarter and applying to so many places right now. Her advices were really valuable. I learned about the process of job posting, applicant systems, and hiring agencies. The first source of recruiting is Employee referrals. The next one is Graigslist.com, Linked In, Twitter and Facebook. I didn’t know that companies could post open positions on facebook. Another valuable advice was a salary offer negotiation. I was always feeling uncomfortable to talk to employers about salary. Now I will do a salary research before coming to an interview. I was also amazed when Michele said that they check credit history. After she explained the reasoning, that the person will treat company’s finance the same way as his personal finance, I thought that it is a good procedure. Her lecture was also helpful for writing a business plan. She explained that compensation growth should be determined on early stages of the setting up the company, because it will be hard to fix it later.