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Bookmarked: Get to Know Katherine Jones, the HR Industry's Renaissance Woman

Dr. Katherine Jones

Independent Thought Leader and Consultant

Editor's Note: This post is part of our "Bookmarked" series, where we ask some of our favorite HR experts, analysts and business professionals to answer questions about their career, life and aspirations for the future. Be sure to bookmark it for next month!

Katherine Jones didn't set out to have a career in the human capital management world—her dream was to work in academia, as president of a university. But her life took her in various other directions, and the self-proclaimed "horse enthusiast" held firmly onto the reins.

Throughout her impressive professional journey, Jones has served as assistant dean at the University of Connecticut, director of marketing at Netsuite, vice president of human capital management research at Bersin by Deloitte and parter at Mercer.

Get to know more about her outlook on life and work below, and learn how career switching has shaped her success.

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The 5 Employment Laws Every Manager Must Know

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The 5 Employment Laws Every Manager Must Know

Employment law is complicated and can have big repercussions for your company if employees fail to adhere to it — either out of ignorance or neglect. A talent contractor for Comcast was just forced to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit over unpaid overtime — a violation of employment law. While you can't expect everyone at your company to be experts in the law (that's why you should have an attorney on retainer), your managers should be trained on the basics. Otherwise, you make your company susceptible to lawsuits.

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