Or can the exact difficulties that one faces in first breaking into HR and then subsequently advancing in HR be just experienced and replicated in any other profession nowadays?
Be it Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Events, Communications, Media, Journalism, Law, Accountancy, Investment Banking, Learning and Development et al, they are all fiercely competitive areas where candidate demand outstrips vacancy supply. It is mainly the stem professions and medicine which have global skill shortages.
In my personal and professional experiences, having ‘a job’ nowadays, indeed any type of job on any level including working in Starbucks, is no longer an automatic given, just translates into practice or comes at all easily. It is actually a privilege to have ‘any’ full time 9-5 that you get up in the morning to go out to and get paid on the 28th of each month for. You have to compete against many other candidates for any and all types of work, especially if it is permanent and not a fixed term contract.
Is therefore the answer and solution to stick at something and see it through as the longer you are in a profession things can change overtime, particularly if you look at the various barriers to entry in other professions and whether they would actually take you with no prior experience?
Feel free to agree or disagree on this point, but I feel that pursuing a long term career in HR on just the junior levels is far preferable to the alternative, which is attending JobCentre Plus once a fortnight. Been there, seen it, done it and did it, and once you are in that situation, it can be very difficult to break out of.
Thus, if the clear choice is between ‘a job’ or ‘the dole,’ is the former always preferable as regardless of the level and nature of the role, even the lowest level jobs pay more than Jobseekers Allowance?
In addition, do most people in reality and practice really get what they want?
In summary, what I am really saying here is that as jobs never come easily and getting any type of work nowadays is so difficult, it is still an achievement in my view to spend an entire career in a profession even on the lower levels, if otherwise one would have been near continuously and long term unemployed. You also have some money in your pocket as well to do a few things, which is still considerably more than the DWP pays.
* Make and carve out a long term career on the lower levels if you cannot get the more advanced in short. *
You ultimately take what you can get and you either can or cannot get certain types of and / or levels of jobs. If you can, you can and if you can’t, you can’t.
It is a ‘labour market’ and an 'employers market' after all. Buying and selling and like a car or a house, every role has a certain value attached to it. There are jobs and jobs.
Any thoughts to add?
