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Impossible with a capital 'i' to advance in the HR profession?

Andre

You have the CIPD 7, Associate Membership of the body, an MSc in International HRM, are considering a PhD in HR / Occupational Psychology and have four years experience working as an HR Administrator.

However, despite of all of that, you basically still can’t get above HR Administrator level to the next level or get an HR Advisor’s level role.

Part of the issue is that they don’t take on Trainee / Junior HR Advisor’s (or indeed Trainee / Junior HRBP’s) and you can’t get the necessary experience in an HR Administrator’s role to get the HR Advisor’s job.

You volunteer outside hours as an HR Advisor and as a CIPD Mentor, and attend all the events in your branch, but it still does not count or is officially recognised as a formal paid 9-5 role to make the cut.

It’s also one of those scenarios that it just does not ever happen for / to you how many applications you ever make, so are any of the following viable options to take instead:

(1) Come to terms with it and make a life long career as an HR Administrator instead, or as a Senior HR Administrator, aiming to be the very best that you can be at that;

(2) Pull completely out of the HR profession as a whole and change career sectors, professions and pathways, starting out again  from zero;

(3) Emigrate and see if you can get the role instead in another country in or outside the EU;

(4) Look at going self employed as an HR Consultant on the Peninsula model?

How would you personally deal with it if you faced a total brick wall blockage that despite your very best efforts, you just could not vertically progress, get on or up in the HR profession as a whole past HR Administrator?

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  • I questioned 3 of the 4 scenarios you have posed when I had been in HR for over 5 years, finishing Level 7 whilst working as an Administrator...

    (1) Come to terms with it and make a life long career as an HR Administrator instead, or as a Senior HR Administrator, aiming to be the very best that you can be at that;
    - If you want to progress, don't move your goal due to setbacks. If you completely stop looking to progress, there will come a time when you question why you didn't pursue. I found the hardest step was the first...sideways or diagonal moves afterwards will be much easier.

    (2) Pull completely out of the HR profession as a whole and change career sectors, professions and pathways, starting out again from zero;
    - I questioned this (and even applied outside HR, considered Accountancy etc), once my first Advisor post was achieved it justified the study and experience (which I can now see as the reason I succeeded, but at the time felt the same as though it had been for nothing), perseverance is the key again.

    (3) Emigrate and see if you can get the role instead in another country in or outside the EU;
    - Not something I considered.

    (4) Look at going self employed as an HR Consultant on the Peninsula model?
    - I started the process to begin a Consultancy (but found it was going to take a lot of resource without knowing it would succeed), but daily contracting could work. It is a competitive market, Consultants here will vouch for the rewards. If it is your goal, do it...if it is a fall-back option (which I saw it) then I would reconsider as setting up your own business will take so much time and effort.

    Good luck whichever path you choose!
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  • I questioned 3 of the 4 scenarios you have posed when I had been in HR for over 5 years, finishing Level 7 whilst working as an Administrator...

    (1) Come to terms with it and make a life long career as an HR Administrator instead, or as a Senior HR Administrator, aiming to be the very best that you can be at that;
    - If you want to progress, don't move your goal due to setbacks. If you completely stop looking to progress, there will come a time when you question why you didn't pursue. I found the hardest step was the first...sideways or diagonal moves afterwards will be much easier.

    (2) Pull completely out of the HR profession as a whole and change career sectors, professions and pathways, starting out again from zero;
    - I questioned this (and even applied outside HR, considered Accountancy etc), once my first Advisor post was achieved it justified the study and experience (which I can now see as the reason I succeeded, but at the time felt the same as though it had been for nothing), perseverance is the key again.

    (3) Emigrate and see if you can get the role instead in another country in or outside the EU;
    - Not something I considered.

    (4) Look at going self employed as an HR Consultant on the Peninsula model?
    - I started the process to begin a Consultancy (but found it was going to take a lot of resource without knowing it would succeed), but daily contracting could work. It is a competitive market, Consultants here will vouch for the rewards. If it is your goal, do it...if it is a fall-back option (which I saw it) then I would reconsider as setting up your own business will take so much time and effort.

    Good luck whichever path you choose!
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