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I shall write again in six months time with an update

Andre

It's good to be an optimist but also a realist at the same time. 

I am not going to become an HR Advisor this time tomorrow, this time next week, this time next month or even this time next year. That is a fact.

Similarly, Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting a different result and outcome. 

One may ask the same question in a hundred different ways yet receive the same answer a hundred different times. 

I will however set myself this realistic target and goal. I am currently 45 and will give myself the next four decades or until 85 to try and become Chief Senior Global Head of People for an organisation somewhere in the world.

If I can still not get that type of HR role then and over that passage of time, or are still an HR Administrator in my mid 80s, I will then call it a day and conclude that it's unlikely to happen as I have then run out of time. 

As with everything in life, time will naturally tell.      

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  • in reply to Keith

    I have found the reason behind it all in relation to all my previous posts about progression or otherwise in the HR profession.

    In my case, my level of formal education still does not automatically translate into or correlate with being able to perform a role designed for the same level, i.e. HR Advisor. Apart from not having the experience, it's more of a capability issue that I can't do the job to the necessary level and standard.

    Is that a more less common scenario if you have the ability to study and gain professional qualifications on a certain level, but similarly do not have the aptitude to work in and carry out the corresponding jobs on that same level?

    In short, I can obtain the CIPD Level 7, but do not seem to be able to effectively work and operate in an HR job above HR Administrator level. I cannot do the job due to the wide experience gap that cannot be easily bridged and wide imbalance between level of HR education and level of HR experience.

    Are there any remedies for this? Its about a systematic and structural mismatch of educational and employment levels here which has been going on for sometime.  

    Maybe this is the end result if you do a CIPD 7 whilst working as an HR Administrator, or in my case at least. You still don't the experience to be able to work on a more advanced level despite of the qualification alone as your daytime role is still HR Administrator, and as you have not been exposed to that depth of HR experience. You process forms but don't chair meetings etc.    

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  • in reply to Keith

    I have found the reason behind it all in relation to all my previous posts about progression or otherwise in the HR profession.

    In my case, my level of formal education still does not automatically translate into or correlate with being able to perform a role designed for the same level, i.e. HR Advisor. Apart from not having the experience, it's more of a capability issue that I can't do the job to the necessary level and standard.

    Is that a more less common scenario if you have the ability to study and gain professional qualifications on a certain level, but similarly do not have the aptitude to work in and carry out the corresponding jobs on that same level?

    In short, I can obtain the CIPD Level 7, but do not seem to be able to effectively work and operate in an HR job above HR Administrator level. I cannot do the job due to the wide experience gap that cannot be easily bridged and wide imbalance between level of HR education and level of HR experience.

    Are there any remedies for this? Its about a systematic and structural mismatch of educational and employment levels here which has been going on for sometime.  

    Maybe this is the end result if you do a CIPD 7 whilst working as an HR Administrator, or in my case at least. You still don't the experience to be able to work on a more advanced level despite of the qualification alone as your daytime role is still HR Administrator, and as you have not been exposed to that depth of HR experience. You process forms but don't chair meetings etc.    

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