One of the industries with the best representation on Twitter is the Human Resources and recruiting. This industry is well represented by consultants and recruiters, as well as HR executives and writers. Here are 25 human resources gurus we think you’ll want to follow on Twitter.

General Human Resources

Learn more about human resources on a basic level. You can also enjoy anecdotes and great blogs that present day in the life sketches of life in the HR field.

1. 1.00 FTE – Impressions of a Corporate Life: This great blog offers web comics about corporate life and human resources. A great way to get through the day.
2. China Gorman: This HR professional has been in the field for a long time and has valuable insights.
3. damon klotz – the HRockstar: Insight on HR, career and more.
4. HR Schoolhouse: Learn the basics of human resources.
5. HR Tailgate: Human resources discussions and ideas.
6. Fast Food HR: A look at human resources from a witty point of view.
7. HR whY?: This Gen Y guy looks at human resources from a generational viewpoint.
8. The Edible HR: News bits from around the world of human resources.
9. Women of HR: Insight, support and commentary on the world of human resources from a woman’s perspective.
10. HR Soot: Commentary and thoughtful insight into human resources.
11. H.R. Official: Thoughts on working in human resources, and how you can be the best you can be.
12. Unconventional HR: Challenge the conventional wisdom with this great HR blog that will have you thinking.
13. Xtreme Human Resources: Tips, advice and new thinking about human resources. Plenty of interesting information.
14. NoExcusesHR: Get out there and get it done! An inspiring HR blog.

Recruitment and Talent Management

Find out more about recruiting talented people to your company — and how to manage them properly when they get there.

15. Fistful of Talent: Insights on recruiting for HR professionals.
16. Kenexa BLOG: Learn about what makes people want to work for you.
17. Louise’s UK Recruiter Blog: Find out about recruitment and HR from a U.K. perspective.
18. Sirona Says: Great advice and ideas when it comes to recruiting top talent.
19. The Talent Strategy Blog: Learn more about how to use the talent in your company.
20. HRMexplorer’s Blog: Go on a journey to increase profitability and performance as you learn how to manage the talent at your company.
21. The Hush Recruiter: Insights, information, ideas and more from a human resources recruiter.
22. Accidental Entrepreneur: This HR professional consults about how you can be a better manager.
23. The Recruiting Inferno: A look at recruitment in human resources.
24. The Whiteboard: Insights into New Zealand’s recruitment industry. An interesting read.
25. Elevated HR Solutions: Get an idea of how to manage your talent. You want a real return on your people investment, and this blog can help you see how to get it.

Law, Policy and Ethics

HR professionals need to have a good grasp of workplace law and policy, as well as corporate ethics. Here are some great blogs that can help you out.

26. Work/Life/Law: Insights on corporate law and workplace law from a business immigration lawyer in the U.K.
27. Employer Training Blog: Deals with workplace issues like taxes, and other policies that might be of interest.
28. TLNT: Employment policy and issues. Learn about management, benefits and policies that can affect what happens in the human resources department.
29. HR Mouth of the South: News, commentary, policy and the latest information that affects human resources and employment in Florida. Also applicable in other states.
30. Cascade Employers Association Blog: Get insight, support and help as you learn about policy, ethics and information related to workplace issues.
31. Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home: An employment law blog with plenty of insight that HR professionals can use.
32. Employment Essentials: Helpful labor and employment law blog.
33. Vorys on Labor: Helpful information for the HR professional.
34. Work in Progress: Official blog of the Department of Labor.
35. The FSLA: Helpful resource for HR professionals dealing with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Technology

Anymore, technology is a big part of how we do business. It helps to know about technology, and how to use its tools (including social media) to improve your human resources performance.

36. Time and Attendance Best Practices: How you can use technology to improve performance and make the business proces more efficient.
37. Uncommon Perceptions: Learn a little bit more about using technology, marketing and social media to your advantage.
38. Technology for HR Blog: Learn how to use technology in HR to do your job better.

Leadership

Great leaders make great HR people. Learn more about developing good leadership skills so that you can help those you work with.

39. Create Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog: Find out more about team building and leadership.
40. Passion on Purpose: Develop passion for your work, and those you work with.
41. Tutto Persona: Learn how to develop a rich life while developing leadership qualities.
42. Humanity Inc.: Learn about developing yourself and your talents, including leadership talents.
43. Sam Lloyd’s Personal Development Blog: You can develop yourself, and that will help you become a better leader.

Career Development

As an HR professional, it helps to understand your career choices. Learn how to advance your career, make connections and be a better you.

44. Water Cooler Wisdom: Alexandra Levit offers you great career advice that can help you in any setting.
45. Campus to Career: Helpful information and advice about developing your career.
46. Monster Thinking: Career giant Monster started a new blog.
47. Jane Has a Job: Interesting and insightful career advice, hints and more from this savvy — and sometimes sassy — blog.
48. InterviewIQ: Helpful advice on job hunting. Great if you are looking to advance your career in HR.
49. The Virtual Cooler: Career insights, as well as information on jobs and recruiting.
50. Classy Career Girl: Career planning and advice. Includes information on, well, how to be classy as you climb the corporate ladder.

Computer Web Apps

1. Orange HRM: This is one of the most popular leading open source HRM solutions for small and medium sized enterprises. Their software provides a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.
2. Jobscience: Jobscience is a human capital management solution that has been around since 1999. They provide a full suite of web-based products and services that meet the needs of any sized business across any industry.
3. Open Applicant: Open Applicant is an applicant tracking and candidate assessment tool available to the public. It is used by many different sized companies to track job candidates.
4. RAMCO Human Capital Management: RAMCO is a human capital management tool that can follow employees through their entire life cycles.
5. Star Tracka: Star Tracka is a performance and talent management solution that helps employers manage people, and work to engage, motivate, reward and retain them.
6. Applicant Stack: This is an applicant tracking and erecruitment software for small to mid sized businesses. It helps you automate recruitment and streamline applicant screening. By setting up applicant screening questions for each job interview by job title, you can easily ensure that every interviewer asks the same questions and rates candidates based on the same criteria.
7. StepStone Solutions: This is one of the leading online performance management solutions. It is widely used worldwide.
8. Sage: Sage is one of the leading HR and payroll management systems. It is widely used and works well for small and medium sized businesses, up to 1500 employees. Manage time, vacation, overtime and flex time in one easy to use system.
9. Eazy HRM: This is an all in one solution for managing current employees. It can store your employee information, allow employees to access and update their information, and manage leave, attendance and benefits. There is also a recruitment module and a reporting module.
10. Softworks: This is a widely used tool for reporting things such as time, attendance, holidays, etc. They have several modules that can be used by small and medium sized businesses.
11. The Human Equation: The Human Equation offers modules that are industry specific. It is one of the best web applications for medium sized business training around. You can also use the development module to develop your own company specific courses.
12. Vista HRMS: This system can manage most all of your HR needs including employee information, time and payroll.
13. Web Time Sheet: This application allows users to track time off, adjust payroll based on overtime calculations, and set up limits for minimum or maximum time submissions.
14. Time Trex: This application is primarily designed to track time and attendance. There are three levels of the product to support multiple business sizes.

For Your iPhone

15. LinkedIn: LinkedIn is one of the most popular social media sites for job hunters and for HR recruiters. Now you can access it on your iPhone.
16. Direct Report: This application lets you track and record employee feedback.
17. Dictionary of HR Management Terms: If you’re new to the HR biz, this app can help you learn the language.
18. The Influencer: Manage conflict and employee issues better by consulting The Influencer. You’ll learn your personal communication style and how to improve relationships at the office through communicating in that style.
19. The Interviewer: Improve your interviewing technique and keep track of candidates you’ve interviewed on one handy Iphone app.

Whether you’re a recruiter, responsible for human performance evaluations, or in charge of keeping the time, payroll and benefits for your organization, you can certainly benefit from some, or all of these applications. Small and medium sized businesses can get a wealth of information, support and business applications for their human resource departments just by using some of these well established web applications.

1. So in order to improve business HR in your company, first of all you should tell your employees about the organizational history and if you have any future business goals then again tell your employees even about them too. Enquire them about their expectations and aspiration too. When a new employee start working be sure that he gets an entire and proper orientation to survive.
2. You should create out a positive atmosphere around your office where every staff feels him to be valued and part of the organization. Never be biased with your staff and always keep doors of your office open so any staff can enter your cabin and could ask you any important or imperative question to be lived out and around.
3. Guide properly to all of your staff as every employee in the office looks for equal and appropriate opportunity to grow. You should work with each and every employee with a career growth plan with opportunities towards his growth with keeping in their mind their current skills as well as future goals. If an employee learns what is restored for him in future then he works there with more sincerity and focused attention.
4. Do also involve even in fun activities in the office along with work do something nice for your employees. Treat the office to a pizza lunch or take everyone to the movies. Reward employees with an unexpected journey and enthusiasm by having or closing office on a random Friday afternoon.
5. The next you can do with prevailing enthusiasm for your staff by means of offering them incentive when they have performed well in form of gift  certificate or something more substantial and attractive in a matter to be loved and liked by all. This establishes a trust and therefore results into the increased productivity.
6. Help employees to reach their next professionally level by providing them on site coaching. More you can bring out there capable professionals to provide them with one to one counseling, which there wise help them overcome difficulties as faced by them during their career path. You can improve employee motivation by improving employee confidence. Assign individuals with tasks you know they will enjoy or will be particularly good at. And an employee with a success on a particular task or objective will further can work with renewed energy and excitement.

1. Beginning a career in human resource brings in an image of the person who deals in the administrative tasks of the company and somehow considered as a person working from the management side of the company. He thus co-ordinates with the top executives of the company to the strategic planning of the company and becomes part of the administrative sections.
2. If you are a person with good and improved team management skills you can go into career of human resources development. As a human resource executive he can work to improve morale and productivity and limit job turnover. He can also be held responsible so that company can effectively use employee skills, provide training opportunities to enhance skill and boost over employee satisfaction with the job and working conditions.
3. As far as attraction in career of human resource is concerned there exists vast opportunity in terms of people working outside the organization whereas many works their being as an internal employee. In a small company a human resource officer handles various aspects of the job while at bigger organization he can reach up to positions of Director of Human resources, employment and placement managers, recruiters, equal employment officers and other such designations.
4. Working conditions for human resource professional happen to be very comfortable and cozy. As human resource professional you work in clean and comfortable office settings. You work there from 35 to 40 hour week though there sometimes are required to work overtime. Generally, employees work in an office and others travel extensively to join professional meetings or visit campuses for recruitment fairs.
5. Though competition is too high yet in this field yet you can join it as if you are a simple graduate. However, later on you can even go for a higher degree depending upon the size of the organization where you are feeling yourself to being fitted into. As many employers looks for college graduate degrees to fill entry level position and love the applications of the candidates having major in human resources, personal administration, or in industrial or labor relations.
6. If you are a person of a range of personal qualities and skills like effective communications skills, both verbal and written. And if you are person with a capacity of supervising persons with different cultural backgrounds, levels of educations and experience. And can also manage conflict and cope with differing points of views you can join a career into the field of human resource.
7. One of the reasons to go into career of human resource is to have opportunity to grow within the organization. As some companies even offer tuition assistance to their employees to learn HR tactics and knowledge and methodology. Yet is always advantageous to have a prior education in the field of learning of HR before getting into the job of Human Resource.

For starters, anyone that is interested in human resource is out for the good of the employees around them. The human resources manager is the go to person the company has put in place to deal with all the issues the employees have both personal and business wise. Some of the best HR managers are both compassionate yet adherents of the company’s rules and procedures on how to deal with different issues. The PhD in HR is in a position to give such a person the added advantage with regards to the company’s performance and the overall well being of the workers within. These PhD programs can be done as either on line or class based courses but in both cases the student is able to attain the highest qualifications in the field. The other aim of the course is to give the existing management a shot in the arm with regards to maximizing the potential and capacity of the personnel that is currently working within the organization. This doctorate course gives the student even greater insight with regards to the workings of he human resource within the company and the laws that govern them.

In short, the PhD in HR gives the manager the ability to manage the human resource within the organization. Even as a specialization course that is higher up the ladder, this is an extremely good course to take on for the interested student. There are very many organizations one could work in with regards to this qualification. These range from banks, hospitals, major hotel chains and even NGO’s. All these are taken to the next level with the inclusion of the HR manager especially one that holds the qualification at the PhD levels.