WBBA Human Resources Group
You are invited to join your colleagues, HR professionals from WBBA member companies, as we network, share ideas and exchange information about the challenges and issues we encounter while working in the biotechnology and biomedical fields. This Group offers a variety of ways to connect with your colleagues, including:
Quarterly Meetings:
We meet quarterly at various member companies, alternating locations between Seattle and the Eastside. Most meetings feature your HR colleagues and experts in various fields focusing on a specific HR topic as it relates to the biotechnology and biomedical industries. At these meetings, we also strive to provide opportunities for career development, facilitate relationship building, and provide an excellent opportunity for HR professionals to network with their colleagues. The meetings cover a variety of topics and follow a range of formats. They generally last for 2 hours and typically start at 9:00 a.m.
The HR Steering Committee, consisting of HR professionals within the WBBA member companies, is responsible for planning these meetings. On an annual basis, this committee requests topic ideas from the HR Group as a whole. Meeting topics vary, depending on current issues, trends and the development needs of the HR community within the WBBA.Most meetings focus on a specific HR topic as they relate to the biotechnology and biomedical industries, we also strive to provide opportunities for career development. Meeting facilitators, panel participants or trainers all possess expertise within their fields. Meeting formats facilitate relationship building, knowledge sharing and provide an excellent opportunity for HR professionals to network with their colleagues who are facing similar issues and challenges.
Past Meeting Topics have Included:
- Employment Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- The Labor Market: Trends in the Pacific Northwest
- Embracing Diversity - The Competitive Advantage
- HR as a Strategic Partner
- The Life Cycle of a Company: Evolution, Revolution, and Devolution
- Immigration & HR - Issues, Options and Legal Challenges
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These meetings are excellent opportunities to learn up to date information from professionals within our industry.
"I appreciate the time given to network with other HR professionals concerned with similar challenges."
"These meetings address up to date topics facing human resources today."
HR Professional Directory
A contact list for all WBBA HR Group members is updated regularly and distributed to members of the WBBA HR group. This list is not shared outside of the WBBA HR group.
Best Practice E-mail Question/Answer Surveys
HR Group members who would like to ask a question of their colleagues can do so by subscribing to the HR group listserv and then email your question to the list. To subscribe - send an email to: imailsrv@washbio.org and in the MESSAGE BODY type: Subscribe HRgroup Firstname Lastname (replacing your name).
Private WaBio.com HR Professional Only Section
WBBA HR group members have access to a secure pass word
protected private section of WaBio.com only accessible to members of the WBBA Human Resources
Group. This section will provide you additional opportunities to network, share ideas,
access WaBio.com employment data, and exchange information about the challenges and
issues you encounter while working in the biotechnology and medical device fields.
If you are interested in joining the WBBA Human Resource Group,
and your company is a WBBA core member, please contact:
Diane Toomey
Phone: 206.883.2907
E-mail: diane.toomey@epigenomics.com
Note: You do not need to have an HR title, in order to attend these meetings;
you simply need to perform the human resources function for your company.
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