With less than two weeks to go until the big show, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of the top 10 reasons to attend SHRM. I know I am really looking forward to this year’s conference and I am hoping this list will help get you pumped up too! Please feel free to add to the list with some of your favorite reasons to attend!
- Get your exercise. Forgo the treadmill and walk the tradeshow floor instead. With more than 700 exhibitors at SHRM 2009, remember to wear comfortable shoes and get ready for a workout!
- Set a record. Have you ever wanted to enter the Guinness Book of World Records? Well, after one day at SHRM, you might just hold the record for the most prize contests entered in a single day.
- Redecorate your desk. Has your employer recently cut back on office supplies? Help out by collecting as many post-it notes, pens, notepads, stress balls and hand sanitizers as your bag can hold.
- Who needs to blend in? Where else can a grown woman wear a feather boa, colorful top hat and dozens of blinking buttons and be considered normal? SHRM!
- Upgrade your workout wardrobe. If you take away nothing else from the show, you will at least go home with a dozen new T-shirts that will allow you to advertise SHRM's finest vendors during your workout routine.
- Be seen on the scene. Attend the hottest party at SHRM and get ready to dance the night away with the “Who’s Who” of the HR industry.
- Understand your priorities. Give up all three of your corporate expensed meals to indulge in a few Pat O’Brian’s hurricanes instead.
- Win diamonds! Did I mention that Beyond.com will be giving away a pair of 1 carat diamond earrings valued at over $4,000 and five $100 Tiffany & Co. gift cards! Visit booth #1213 for a chance to win!
- Collect beads, indulge in Cajun food, listen to Jazz and enjoy Bourbon Street! You know what they say…when in Rome!
- What happens at SHRM stays at SHRM. No explanation needed.
