Thanksgiving
This food is the main dish of most American Thanksgivings.
What is turkey?
This document outlines the rules, expectations, and benefits for employees at a company.
What is the employee handbook?
This U.S. President is Texas State’s most famous alumnus and returned to campus to sign the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
SHRM conferences, workshops, and webinars help HR professionals earn these required units to maintain certification.
What are recertification credits or Professional Development Credits (PDCs)?
This planet is the hottest in our solar system, even though it's not the closest to the Sun.
What is Venus?
This popular parade, featuring giant balloons, takes place every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This HR process includes reviewing an employee’s work and giving feedback, often once or twice a year.
What is a performance evaluation?
Texas State was founded in 1899 under this original name.
What is Southwest Texas State Normal School?
SHRM emphasizes ethical standards through this formal written document that guides HR professionals’ conduct.
What is the SHRM Code of Ethics?
This fruit, often mistaken for a vegetable, is the most consumed fruit in the world.
What is the tomato?
This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This HR term refers to the financial value of an organization’s employees—often described as the company’s most important asset.
What is human capital?
Texas State’s forensic anthropology research facility, known for its outdoor human decomposition research, is commonly called this.
What is the “Body Farm”? (Officially: the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility)
This SHRM research publication provides annual data on turnover rates, staffing challenges, and trends in employee retention.
What is the SHRM Talent Retention Report?
This organ is the only human organ capable of fully regenerating itself after partial removal.
What is the liver?
This U.S. state officially hosts the oldest Thanksgiving parade in the nation, first held in 1920—four years before Macy’s started theirs.
What is Pennsylvania? (The Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade)
This federal agency oversees workplace safety and ensures employers follow safety standards.
What is OSHA?
This Texas State landmark, built in 1986, sits at the highest point on campus and is known for its sweeping view of San Marcos and the Hill Country.
What is the Alkek Library?
SHRM’s competency model includes eight behavioral competencies; this one requires HR leaders to align HR strategy with long-term organizational goals.
What is Strategic Thinking?
This scientific theory explains why time moves slower the faster an object approaches the speed of light.
What is Einstein’s theory of relativity?
This side dish, now a Thanksgiving staple, was invented in 1955 by a Campbell’s employee to help promote their cream of mushroom soup.
What is green bean casserole?
This HR metric measures how long positions stay open before being filled and is often used to evaluate recruiting efficiency.
What is time-to-fill?
This Texas State president led the university from 2002 to 2022.
Who is Denise Trauth?
This SHRM tool helps organizations compare their HR metrics—such as turnover, cost-per-hire, and time-to-fill—against industry averages.
What is SHRM Benchmarking Data or SHRM Benchmarking Reports?
This ancient library, once the largest in the world, was located in a city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE.
What is the Library of Alexandria?