HR Officer vs HR Coordinator

In my experience (and unfortunately I have had lots lately job hunting) it depends on the organisation. In larger companies I have found the HR Coordinator role used for that at slightly higher level than or instead of HR Administrator. I dont hear HR Officer used very often at all except in the Public Sector where that is higher than both and and Administrator and a Coordinator. Also on the rare occasion it does appear in the private sector it is usually mid level role.
Looking at your responses it seems that there could be a number of variables as to what organisations give certain roles certain titles - I have personally witnessed a role being called Officer but spent the interview listening to the person conducting the interviewing vary between calling said post Officer or Advisor and most recently one role that had originally been called Generalist was changed to Coordinator at the 11th hour because they had added slightly different elements to in that the previous incumbent had done below.

Honestly? I think it depends on the company, the size of their HR Department and whether or not they truly understand the broad spectrum of functions within HR.

Like others have said it varies depending on the organisation/business. To me though HR Officer seems a bit old hat? I think its just my interpretation of the 'officer' bit... policing the policies etc!

Like others have said it varies depending on the organisation/business. To me though HR Officer seems a bit old hat? I think its just my interpretation of the 'officer' bit... policing the policies etc!