1. Name, Company and Position – Rebecca Bowen, Employer Relations
Specialist in UAB Career Services
2. Tell us about what you do there. – I work with outside companies to post jobs and recruit UAB students and alumni
3. What is your favorite part of your job? – I love working with a student and seeing them get hired in a position that is a great fit with a great company. It is very fulfilling.
4. How did you “get in to HR” and why?- I started my career in retail management and loved the HR side of the business. I like finding the right position for each candidate. I call it “career matchmaking”
5. How long have you been a member of BSHRM? For one year
6. What is the weirdest question you have ever been asked by a candidate or employee?– I have been asked a lot of crazy questions, but a few of my favorite are, “How extensive are the background checks?” and a candidate prior to her interview asked me, “Can you watch my child while I go to the restroom?”
7. What do you say to a candidate to politely turn them down for your position?- “If you are selected for a second interview, we will give you a call.”
8. What was the last book you read? Would you recommend it? Why?- I read UAB’s Freshman Discussion Book, Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin. This book is written by an autistic woman and talks about the disorder from an insider’s perspective, but it also spoke about how we all handle situations differently, not good-not bad, just different.
9. What is your favorite all time movie? Why? – Shawshank Redemption. I love anything with Morgan Freeman, but I also like how Red finally understands what freedom is, on a beach in Mexico.
10. You’ve just been granted a wish and can invite four people from any time period in history to dinner. Who would you invite and why?
Betsy Ross- I have always admired her using her skills, as minimal as they may have seemed, to create an icon we still use to this day.
Rosa Parks- A woman that saw beyond her time and stood up for herself and what she believed.
Walt Disney- He had a vision and did everything in his power to see it to fruition.
Squanto- the Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to survive. I have always wanted to know why he spent so much time helping strangers.
11. What is your favorite way to spend the weekend? Why? – With my family. I have an 18 month old son named Miller who takes up most of my free time.
12. Are you a cat person or a dog person?- My husband has 2 dogs, so I think that makes me a dog person too.
13. What would you choose as you “last meal”?- STEAK
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