GovHR was pleased to assist the City of Adrian. Read more.

Heidi Voorhees, our President, will moderate the following panel at ICMA on Tuesday, September 25. Power Imbalances: Implementing Integrity in the Workplace This session explores the impact and consequences of sexual harassment and gender bias in local government organizations. Learn how best to identify and handle these harmful behaviors before they result in the lossRead More

Booth 542 at ICMA will be the meet up location. Please join us!

Together with Patti-Lynn Silva, Chief Accountant at Bloomington, IL and Greg Peters, GovTemps contract employee/CFO at the Village of River Grove, GovHR Senior VP Mike Earl will be speaking at the IGFOA Conference in Peoria, IL on Tuesday, September 18 at 11:25am at a session titled: Alternative Staffing Models. Click here for more information.

  Longtime municipal administrator and GovTemps associate Frank Koehler recently announced he is retiring from local government. This time it looks like it might be for good! Frank has served the following communities with distinction and commitment to good government:       Riverdale, IL Director of Community Development 1991-1996 Bourbonnais, IL Village Administrator 1996-2007Read More

Thursday, June 28: Compensation Studies –The What, Why and How A compensation study is an important tool to help organizations remain competitive in the current workforce environment. In this session you will learn the benefits of doing a compensation study, what goes into a study and the administrator’s role during the process. Issues covered include whatRead More

The Information Technology Review - City of Pekin, Illinois By: Jerry Schultz, Vice President, GovHR  USA In the summer of 2016 GovHR USA conducted an information technology review for the City of Pekin, Illinois (pop. 33,000). This case study presents highlights of the information technology review, which was part of a larger organizational service deliveryRead More

By Heidi Voorhees We’ve interviewed thousands of employees as a part of our recruitment and selection processes. Here is what they tell us they want in a leader, boss, manager, and supervisor: Listen, Listen, Listen. Bosses often talk more than they listen and when they do listen, they sometimes are also looking at their phone,Read More

By Heidi J. Voorhees, President, GovHRUSA Develop a chronological resume that is easy to follow. Provide a one sentence description of each position you’ve held, the name of the organization including the city and state, and then indicate your accomplishments while you held that job. If you had a wide variety of responsibilities, consider creatingRead More