In this episode of HR Storytellers, LaTrelle Porter, SHRM-CP, recounts success stories and hiring strategies from her efforts over the past 20 years in city government to recruit and support job candidates with criminal histories. Porter, a human resources business partner for the city of Savannah, joins host Tony Lee to share her HR story.

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In this episode of HR Storytellers, Jeff Palkowski, SHRM-SCP, outlines how he left a career in customer service to learn HR from the bottom up, starting at a staffing firm and then leveraging his talents and additional education to move into human resource management.

Palkowski, workforce relations manager in the division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, joins host Tony Lee to share his HR story.

HR Storytellers is sponsored by BambooHR.

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In this episode of HR Storytellers, Brian McComak shares his thoughts on why learning to hire without bias and treat all employees equally is a challenge that line managers and the HR professionals who help them need to overcome. 

McComak, a former HR manager at Christie’s, Disney and Tapestry, and now the CEO and founder of Hummingbird Humanity, an inclusion consulting firm in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., joins host Tony Lee to share his HR story.

HR Storytellers is sponsored by BambooHR.

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