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HR is go.
We're here to take care of the people.
Human beings are amazing and we are created to do wonderful, amazing things.
Our focus as Human Resource Directorate is to recruit and retain the brightest individuals
across the nation.
What we do is hire the right people for the right job to get the work done.
Not everyone can do what we do.
No other agency is trying to go to Mars or do something so exciting.
We have to make sure that we're stronger, better, faster, but with less resources.
If anything, I think HR can feel the most pressure out of all, right, to ensure that
everybody is at the right place at the right time with right skills, along with understanding
the limitations that we have.
Really what we're focused on is on the health of the organization as a whole.
Do the people that we have here, do they have the right skills?
Do we need to train them?
What time does it take to train someone?
It really falls back on us to understand what the needs are, of where the mission is going
and where our workforce is at.
We're always looking for ways to make sure we are taking care of our customer, we are
taking care of the KSC workforce.
What's going to make them happy, what's going to help them have fun so that when they go
back to their job, they feel refreshed.
If you don't establish a culture within your organization, there's going to be a culture
that gets developed and it may not be a culture that you actually want.
We assess how the organization is doing at different levels.
Sometimes you tweak different things with people - the ones that are actually doing
the work - and amazing things happen.
It's very important for every employee to feel included.
Inclusion and diversity of individuals with a variety of backgrounds just brings a variety
of ideas.
We try to listen, come up with solutions to the problems.
We collaborate with supervisors, with managers.
Being able to step into a situation and you know help resolve, or help address, help advance
whatever is going on for our customers in a way that's going to leave them validated,
right, or leave them in a better place than where they were before.
I think our workforce is always looking for... how do we get to that next level?
It's a constant churn, so what do we do next, how do we do this?
Right now we're really pushing to Mars, but we don't have anyone who's actually done
this.
So a lot of our managers are looking for, one, people who are motivated, but also people
who are very innovative.
You have to be committed to doing a good job to work here.
NASA is still the number one place to work for in the federal government.
NASA's made a name for itself in the past and I think that is going to continue.
You know, we ultimately get things done.
The things that we are able to accomplish here at Kennedy are remarkable.
We're one big team.
Not one person can send the SLS rocket or spacecraft into outer space.
I did not screw the bolt onto the rocket to make it launch, but I still helped facilitate
that.
I am a piece of this history.
I enabled that person to be here or made the right strategies for that right person to
come here and do that work.
Right in our backyard we are creating the future.
They're counting on us to do something great.
Anything's possible.
The sky is not the limit.