WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE HR DESK? Chris Sadler Director of Human Resources and the Systems Supporting a School District

 The most important HR decisions are not always the most visible ones. For Chris Sadler Director of Human Resources, much of the work involves systems that employees and job candidates may only notice when something goes wrong—or when the process works exceptionally well. The Sun Prairie Area School District lists Chris Sadler as Director of Human Resources and identifies recruitment, employee relations, compensation, benefits, performance management, recognition and wellness among the department's functions. Recruitment provides an especially revealing example. Frontline's case study describes how Sun Prairie worked to improve access to applicant data, understand candidate pools and make hiring more efficient. It also describes improvements to onboarding and employee-record processes after candidates were hired. That creates a different way to understand Chris Sadler Director of Human Resources. The role is not simply about responding to employee issues. It involves building processes that help an organization attract people, move candidates through hiring, onboard new employees and support the workforce afterward. The title may be short. The infrastructure behind it is not.