ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First, we’d like to thank all the highly skilled staff at McGraw-Hill Education for their help and juggling timelines to get this book to print sooner rather than later. Thanks to our editor, Amy Stonebraker, for her endless patience and guidance on this project keeping us all on task and focused on the end result as we wove our way through many unforeseeable diversions of our time. She has been supportive and empathetic beyond belief. Thanks to executive editor Tim Green who kept his faith in us and our ability to create a product quickly so that the graduating class of 2017 can use our study guide to help them take and pass their aPHR certification exam.

Additionally, a special word of appreciation goes out to Christina Nishiyama, who unselfishly shared her personal HR experiences with you in Chapter 9, providing her insight about her own early career days as an HR professional. You will find them helpful in identifying how activities you will participate in relate to real-world impact. It is always helpful to know how what you are doing will influence the world of work in which you are part of. Thank you, Christina.

Last comes a note of acknowledgment from Dory to her coauthors, Bill Truesdell and Bill Kelly, whom she affectionately refers to as her HR Jedi Knights. When the new aPHR exam was created, we just knew in our hearts that we needed to make time in our schedules to write this aPHR exam study guide and present a realistic view of the roles and task responsibilities for aspiring early-career HR professionals. There are no better professionals than Bill and Bill to collaborate with on a short aggressive time frame as we were given to complete this project. This book truly is a loving legacy to our profession from us, and it was her ultimate pleasure coauthoring this work with those wonderful Jedi Knights.