Serving as a human resources manager for a rapidly growing organization in Southern California often proves both challenging and rewarding. The organization I happily work for, New American Funding (NAF), is one of the nation's leading mortgage bankers. Coming into this organization, I spent time working in HR management roles, but in all honesty, nothing could have prepared me for the role at NAF. When I was interviewed for the HR manager role, I was led to believe by a pretty convincing recruiter that there were nearly 200 employees and that the company was looking to double that in the next year or two. I was nervous about developing a role in an already large company where I would be managing the department. I had worked at large companies, but my HR manager role was at a company with only 100 employees. It was going to be a challenge and I was a little nervous. The role of human resources management was not foreign to me. As the text describes human resource management, “the policies, practices, and systems that influence employee behavior, attitudes, and performance” (page 3) (Noe, R.A., Hollenbeck, J.R., Gehat, B., & Wright , PM ( 2014). I felt very comfortable with the role of HR manager at NAF and was interested in moving forward with the hiring process role was ultimately new and that it would be up to me to develop the department, which at the time was mainly working only on onboarding, because there were a lot of hiring people: the recruiter, the licensing manager, the manager of compliance, the COO (who would be my boss) a… middle of paper… the organization was in a new industry and required me to acquire a great deal of knowledge which I believed was critical to using a HR approach based on 'evidence to "collect and use data to demonstrate that human resources practices have a positive influence on the company's bottom line or key stakeholders" (page 14). Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gehat, B., & Wright, P. M. (2014). Creating an HR department that focuses on strategic growth for a company we truly believe in is very important. NAF is a phenomenal organization with tremendous growth potential. New American Funding is made up of a group of people who work hard and collaboratively to build the nation's most extraordinary mortgage bank. Works Cited Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gehat, B., & Wright, P. M. (2014). Fundamentals of human resource management (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.