Jacqueline Hyde

I attribute my success to maintaining strong relationships, committing to continuous learning, and never settling for the status quo. I remain open to change and new learning opportunities, which allows me to keep evolving both personally and professionally.

The biggest piece of advice given to me throughout my career is to keep learning and never settle for what you have right now. I've learned that you are never the smartest person in the room, so you want to continue working towards that. Just never say 'this is enough for me.' I want to keep learning, and never settling and never staying stuck is really the thing that I have taken away with me the most. I think it's so important to continue to learn as much as possible and make yourself knowledgeable, especially with everything changing in our field. If you can master new tools, like AI, it's going to be a great tool that will allow you to keep moving forward.

HR is certainly not for everybody, but if you really focus on the human experience and bring empathy to the role, I think that's most important. HR can be looked at from many so different perspectives, both positive and negative, and I find that so long as you bring the human touch, the empathetic touch, and remember that you are dealing with individual people rather than just a number or just another employee, you will be successful. I also think it's important to prepare yourself and try to learn as much as you can, especially with AI coming into the field. Resumes aren't what they were in the past - a lot of the recruiting tools and things now also integrate AI in the pre-screening and the sourcing, so anything you can do to use that to highlight you and set yourself apart is going to be key.

I think AI is a big one, both a challenge and an opportunity, because it is something that we know will continue to be implemented in the working world. We know processes will be automated as it continues to develop, so I think finding ways to utilize AI but also still bringing the human touch, utilizing your human judgement and natural caution is going to continue to be so important. AI is going to continue to help organizations move faster, but will require their employees to keep pace with how quickly AI will continue to evolve. I think finding a balance might be difficult thing to navigate for some, especially with AI tools still being so new and ever growing.

The values most important to me in both my work and personal life are continuous learning, empathy, collaboration, and clear communication. I strive to keep learning, understand others with compassion, work effectively with people, and ensure clarity in how I express myself and engage with others.