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PeopleTalk Magazine
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PeopleTalk Magazine is the voice of the British Columbia Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA). For more than 60 years, BC HRMA has served the needs of our now-almost 3,000 members. We deliver responsive programs and services to the human resources and labour relations community across the province.
PeopleTalk publishes four times a year, available by office or home delivery to all of our membership.
Magazine Content
PeopleTalk informs human resources managers, specialists, and consultants about trends and issues that affect their profession. The magazine offers leading information that reflects the tumultuous changes and diversity of HR practice in B.C.
Our readers seek insightful analysis of emerging trends, constructive criticism on existing practices, and everyday guidance in an increasingly changing and complex workplace.
Each issue of PeopleTalk presents an HR theme, determined by the editor in collaboration with an editorial advisory committee of industry professionals. The magazine has three components: main features, secondary stories, and regular departments or columns. The longer theme articles appear at the front and take an in-depth look at a current HR issue. The next section usually includes three articles relevant to our readers; these continue the theme or address another timely HR topic.
Our regular columns and departments include Labour Relations; LeaderShift (a Q&A with an HR executive or CEO); Health and Wellness; Current Clips (recommended reference books on the theme topic); Off the Shelf (book review); The E-line (e-technology and HR); CHRP Update; and Tech Talk (recommended Web sites on the theme topic).
Volunteer professionals write all of the articles except the cover story or main theme article; the editor hires a freelance writer to produce the latter. Editorial advisory committee members usually contribute the columns.
How You Can Contribute
If you are an HR professional or involved in the field and would like to write an article for PeopleTalk, here’s what to do:
Please email a query or one-page letter to the editor (contact information below) that outlines your article idea. Indicate how this topic applies to our readers and provide details on how you would approach the article, including your angle, structure, and potential sources. Include any credentials that show your qualifications for writing the article.
The editor will review your query for relevance and clarity. If the editor selects your idea for an upcoming issue, she will contact you by email or phone to further pursue the idea.
The Editing Process
An assignment letter, emailed by the editor, will provide all details about the due date for your submission, word count, proposed angle, and general expectations.
Once the editor has received your completed manuscript as a file attachment via e-mail, she will edit it for grammar, economy of language, and conformity with PeopleTalk magazine style. As part of this process, the editor might restructure the content or delete extraneous material to improve the flow of text. She will then return the edited version to you for review, along with a list of points that require your explanation or elaboration. Sometimes, if required, a member of the editorial advisory committee will also review the article to provide technical feedback. In the event that the article is incomplete or does not meet the expectations laid out in the assignment letter, the editor will make other editorial arrangements.
Style
PeopleTalk adopts the Canadian Press Style Guide, with a few exceptions, and uses the Canadian Oxford Dictionary for spelling.
Unlike academic periodicals, trade magazines such as PeopleTalk generally do not use end or footnotes. A writer can usually work this information into the article text.
Tables and figures: Graphs, tables, and other exhibits can help to illustrate an article. If used, please provide as much information about the creation of the table or figure as possible. This will help our graphic designer, who will likely have to regenerate these. Images in PDF formats are preferred. The original source of the table and figure must be provided.
Display copy: The title (headline) of an article and the explanatory “deck” or subhead beneath it are intended to catch the reader’s attention. We welcome your suggestions, but display copy is the editor’s responsibility, not the writer’s.
Copyright
Authors agree that by publishing an article in PeopleTalk magazine, they will be granting to us First North American print rights, as well as the electronic right to publish the article on the BC HRMA website and/or in our electronic newsletter HRVoice (www.hrvoice.org).
Contact
Editor, PeopleTalk Magazine
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