Bob Bemel started his career at Collins Rockwell after obtaining a degree in
business from U.M.D. He remembers Collins as a company ahead of its time,
as they hired him for what he knew about their product rather than what he
knew about HR (which consisted of one labor relations course in college).
Bob had operated Collins equipment in the U.S. Navy, and they knew he
could tell the Collins story to top flight engineers and technicians.
They then taught Bob HR ("personnel" then) by immersing him in the work
and sending him to Case Western University for more academic exposure to
the profession.
Bob held Collins' approach to investing in people as the standard of
excellence to which he compared all of his later employers. He went on to
obtain a certificate in HR from the University of Minnesota and continued
a challenging and rewarding career in HR for over 30 years with County
Seat Stores, General Mills, Hazelden and Dain Bosworth.
Bob then left the corporate world behind to follow a dream. His vision
was to provide HR leaders, like himself, an opportunity to receive
professional support and a peer learning experience in an environment that
was grounded in trust and forward thinking. Bob launched his vision by
forming hr connection® and, for 14 years, he focused on facilitating small groups of HR leaders
and making good matches doing HR search. Bob laid the foundation for
creating a powerful small group experience, which will always remain
central to everything we do at hr connection®.
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