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How far would you commute for an HR role in order to get the experience?

Andre

Unlike being automatically entitled to a school place based on your postcode in a particular catchment area, it does not work that way with employment. 

They do not just automatically hire you just because you happen to be local, and one may receive a job offer in an area that they are not in a position to move to either for many different reasons and factors. 

What is all your mileage radius for a certain type of role, bearing in mind train fares, travel time etc, or would you rather hold tight and wait for something to come up more locally, even if there is currently nothing for you on the HR jobs front in your particular town, city or region of the country?

To give an example here, someone living in Stoke on Trent could easily commute on a daily basis to work in HR in Liverpool, Manchester or Birmingham if they could not find or get anything there after an extensive search. There are far more people looking for HR positions across the UK than HR positions available in the UK. Supply and demand.      

However, would most people do so, even if it's a fine choice of getting an HR job x amount of miles away outside of your own local area or then no HR job at all?

Any thoughts, also bearing in mind regional salary differences?     

         

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  • Hi Andre

    You're asking us (well, me), what I'd do - but the question you know you need to answer is what you are prepared to do - isn't it? ;-). And of course , our opinion & experience is based on different criteria than yours.

    However:-

    The furthest I've ever commuted was some 60 miles, mostly over quiet roads, but I didn't do that for long. I was also a regular commuter from home to York (50 miles or so each way) for several months But that was at the start of my HR journey. I hated the travel even then. Whilst living in Ireland I got asked to run some training courses in Dublin. What I would have earned in one day was not far off what I was getting for nearly a month's wage prior to moving. But I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of travelling up there + hotels+stress + ......Why ? I could stay at home and do very little in the way of work and get paid comparatively very little for the work. But all I had to do was travel a couple of miles every day I chose to work.

    It took a long time for me to understand that you need to be happy with what you have rather than get frustrated over the things you've not got or could have. A part of that process is being able to come to terms with your own circumstances and choosing a path YOU want to take and not get too hung up on what you might be missing..
  • in reply to David Perry

    I think that it boils down more to the fact that if you see people with less on paper or certain other things than you get certain things (particular types of jobs or moving to particular counties), yet you can't you naturally wonder 'why'? What do they have which is so special that I do not, but then you are comparing yourself with other people. You are not them and they are not you. Luck, timing and circumstances also play a certain part in the overall mix here.

    But can one completely alter or change their entire circumstances, or is that difficult as well?    

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  • in reply to David Perry

    I think that it boils down more to the fact that if you see people with less on paper or certain other things than you get certain things (particular types of jobs or moving to particular counties), yet you can't you naturally wonder 'why'? What do they have which is so special that I do not, but then you are comparing yourself with other people. You are not them and they are not you. Luck, timing and circumstances also play a certain part in the overall mix here.

    But can one completely alter or change their entire circumstances, or is that difficult as well?    

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