Staffing Management Association of Southern New England

Membership Information

History… The Staffing Management Association (SMA) has a long-standing history of serving and advancing staffing professionals across the United States. It was founded in 1969 in Boston, MA, maintained a local, regional chapter based in the Boston, MA area as well as throughout the United States and built a solid organization to strengthen the capability, results, and professional networks in the areas of recruitment, retention, and diversity. Some of you may be familiar with SMA’s affiliation with the Society for Human Resource Management in 1999 and subsequent transition to that of a Professional Emphasis Group (PEG) within the SHRM organization. When it affiliated with SHRM it had 1,150 members and when it reached its peak as a SHRM PEG, 8,000 members. Similarly, its conference attendees went from 300 to 1,000.

When SHRM restructured, the PEG structure was dissolved. But, because SMA had been a sizable professional association for 34 years and because the nature of focus is different from that of our generalist chapters, SHRM is providing the opportunity to form SMA Chapters or SMA Emphasis Groups within existing chapters to support Staffing Professionals throughout the United States.

A Strategic Decision… In the early fall of 2004, a small group made a decision to form one, centralized SMA chapter in Connecticut (rather than six different emphasis groups within each chapter) – one that would completely focus on meeting the needs of staffing leaders and professionals. We received the support of the six existing Chapter Presidents in Connecticut to start an independent chapter which will focus on staffing and diversity. We have pledged to collaborate with and educationally support the generalist chapters.

The new Chapter, The Staffing Management Association of Southern New England was chartered on April 27, 2005. Officers were elected and a group of 30 were received as Charter members. The Chapter is now operational and seeking to add new members. If your primary professional function is in staffing and/or diversity, you are encouraged to apply for membership. You must be a national SHRM member in order to join this Chapter. Cost is $50.00 per year. Please make your checks payable to Staffing Management Association of Southern New England.

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Membership Application