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>> My name is KerriLaine Prunella, and I
am a federal Human Resources Specialist.

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Within my organization, it's
referred to as an HR Business Partner.

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So it's basically like being
an internal consultant but also

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with some operational specialty, whether
it be employee relations or recruiting

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and also looking at kind of manager and employee
development and also some strategic planning.

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What I joke about is the only
consistent thing is e-mail

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because certain days I might be putting together
a briefing about a policy update and then having

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to brief some of our senior leaders
as well as some of our employees,

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whether it be about telecommuting or about
some development options that they have,

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whether they're senior executives
or entry-level employees.

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And it's just a plethora of things that we're
basically dealing with on a daily basis.

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I start, usually around, my
official time of duty is 7:30.

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I usually get into the office around 7:15 in
the morning and kind of go through what's going

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on in e-mail, what was awaiting me overnight.

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I work, usually, until around 5:15,
5:30 depending upon what's going on.

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If we have some special sessions, maybe
I'll flex the schedule little bit.

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Government is great that it does
offer certain flexible work schedules

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so employees can either do every other
Friday or Monday off or some tele-working

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or some compressed schedule along those lines.

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But I'm usually an early arriver, which is good.

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With my particular job, it's mostly
just going among the different buildings

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for different meetings.

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There are some, if there is
organizations that have field offices,

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there may be some travel involved if you have
a cohort of managers that are, say, in Colorado

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and going out there and meeting, really
with your end user of your services,

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which in this case could be recruiting
or something along those lines.