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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.      

  • in reply to Keith
    With the benefit of hindsight, although one can't clearly force a job or an organisation to take them on if they do not wish to, if one constantly struggles and finds it impossible to progress, but their peers don't, it that a possible indicator that they are in the wrong profession and / or have chosen the wrong field or work?

    Naturally one can do many different types of jobs, but some jobs can be more suitable and a better match than others.
  • in reply to Keith
    With the benefit of hindsight, although one can't clearly force a job or an organisation to take them on if they do not wish to, if one constantly struggles and finds it impossible to progress, but their peers don't, it that a possible indicator that they are in the wrong profession and / or have chosen the wrong field or work?

    Naturally one can do many different types of jobs, but some jobs can be more suitable and a better match than others.
  • What I am basically saying here in a very fine nutshell is that I cannot get a job, and the advice given, although excellent, still hasn't worked in terms of delivering one.
  • in reply to Andre
    Andre said:
    if one constantly struggles and finds it impossible to progress, but their peers don't, it that a possible indicator that they are in the wrong profession and / or have chosen the wrong field or work?

    That is certainly one of the conclusions that could reasonably be drawn from that situation.

  • in reply to Keith
    The problem is however that no other profession is suddenly going to take me at 45 with no prior experience or on a graduate entry programme. That is living in the real world.

    I also can’t give up work or risk spending thousands of pounds and several years on now doing new and more professional qualifications in a different profession to end up at 50 and subsequently find out that I can’t break into that either as they either don’t hire people without experience or at entry leave at that stage of a career.

    HR it therefore is.

    Marketing, Journalism, Media, Advertising etc are not options and may be even more difficult.
  • in reply to Andre
    Andre - Its never been about spending thousands of pounds and getting higher and higher professional qualifications. Its always been about finding something you are good at and excelling at that. Job first - qualifications second for me.