Today is the first annual Tim Sackett Day
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If you don’t know Tim, you are a fool. Tim is an Executive Vice President at HRU Technical Resources, a staffing firm located in Michigan. HRU Technical Resources specializes in the manufacturing sector and they currently have over 500+ engineers, designers, supervisors and technicians on site at clients all over the country. They are a Certified Women-owned Business with a client base in defense, military, consumer products, automotive, aerospace, and education.
But that’s not why I am celebrating Tim Sackett Day or why you should know him.
Tim is a recruiting dork, a father, a husband, a coach, a leader, a teacher — and in his spare time, he blogs on multiple sites and tweets. Tim will never win a spot on a ‘Human Resources influencer list’ because he is too busy doing real HR work to fart around with the consultants and gurus who create those lists.
That’s why you should know him.
Tim is the best of what Human Resources has to offer. He isn’t looking for awards and accolades. He isn’t looking for a few more followers on Twitter. He lives in the state of Michigan and actually finds jobs for people. He helps companies achieve profitability. And he is raising three boys to be amazing men.
Tim blogs, tweets and manages to find time to be a great HR professional and a great husband and father. He is speaking at TLNT Transform and SHRM National — not because he likes to get freaky with HR chicks — but because he is trying to improve the field of HR.
If Tim can do it, you can do it.
That’s why it is so fun to participate in the first annual Tim Sackett Day. He is the best of what HR has to offer but he isn’t the only one out there. I bet you work with a few Tim Sacketts. You might be Tim Sackett, too. If so, I want to thank you for your hard work. You won’t get an award from anyone else — but you will be recognized on Tim Sackett Day!
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There should be an award called “The Sackett” which recognizes unsung HR professionals. Of course, being awarded a “Sackett” means you could never actually get the award because you now have been recognized.
Do I get SPHR certification credits for winning this award?
I would be remiss and derelict in my duites as a student of Dr. Francine Hoffman, my journalism professor, if I did not point out that there is no such thing as “first annual.” It can be first, it can be inaugural, but it’s not “annual” until you have it the second time.
I know, I know, internet grammar nazi, blah, blah, blah. It’s strikes a nails-on-a-chalkboard chord with me just as “Workman’s Comp” or calling a blogger “beautiful” does in some HR circles.
Now back to your regularly scheduled comments . . . . .
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/firstannual.html
I disagree.
Quoting a Wazzu source for the win, too!
I’m blushing…
BTW – do I get paid for this award?
You get paid in tweets like every other influencer. Welcome to the club!
Matt – cool call on the ‘Sackett Award’. Tim, of course you don’t get paid.
Sackett. Already asking for cash. What a punk ass bitch.
Cool!
Warm and fuzzies on your blog – how foreign feeling is that lately!
Thanks, Lori.
Someone once said, “Laurie Ruettimann should be at the top of every influencer list.”
No, really, someone wrote that.
Now I have to a) be pissed off at every influencer list that doesn’t include me and b) mock these lists for the garbage that they are…
http://www.hrexaminer.com/thinking-about-influence-yet-again
Since I didn’t know who Tim Sackett was until a few minutes ago, I think there should be a “Tim Sackett Awareness Month” first, followed by Paid Time Off every January 23, to celebrate!
That is a fantastic idea!
Go Tim! I will honor you today by dealing with several annoying employee issues, planning some large FLSA changes, working with executive planning, overseeing hiring a bunch of people (currently have 34 openings), overseeing executive 360s and revamping the appraisal and job description process. Then there is tomorrow…
That’s all I could ask you to do Ginger!
My eyes just bled.
I’m very disappointed that Tim Sackett is not into us freaky HR chicks. He sounds like the Bill Brasky of HR. “To Tim Sackett!”
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