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Career progression in HR

Andre

Is it often considered a given in the profession that:

Someone with 3 years experience as an HR Administrator should then be able to automatically step up to an HR Advisor level role, provided they also have the CIPD Level 7 and Associate Membership of the respective professional body;

Ditto for someone with 3 years experience as an HR Advisor for an HR Business Partner role.

Ditto for someone with 3 years experience as an HR Business Partner for an HR Director’s role.

However, as a gap analysis in all their job descriptions and person specifications, they lack either previous HR Advisory, HR Business Partnering or HR Directing experience, so how do most people do it then by ‘making the jump ‘ or ‘bridging that gap.’?

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  • There are no unwritten rules to be honest

    Stay in a job as long as you are enjoying it and are adding value to both the organisation and your CV (if you are building your CV that is). There are individuals who have worked in an organisation their entire working lives (The CEO in one of our businesses for example - he started on the front line and is now CEO not bad!) where as other people find the opportunity and challenges come from moving around far more often.

    I think why people suggest a couple of years as a rough "minimum" is that it gives you the opportunity to experience a couple of cycles of the organisation and to ad value in that time. But you can certainly add value in a lot less or over a far longer period. The danger with shorter periods - particularly less than a year/18 months is that (a) you will find it more difficult to demonstrate you have really added value and (b) the new employer may fear you wont stay and wont therefore give you a chance. So if you have shorter periods you need a good narrative as to what you achieved and why you moved on. Most employers will probably excuse one such move but question harder several.

    There is no problem being a HR Assistant for 5 years in one organisation then moving to another organisation for 5 years as a HR assistant. Its probably not the profile of a future HR Director (although sure someone will have) but not every can or wants to be a HR director. As long as they enjoyed the roles and were a good employee then so what? We all need people who are good at their job and broadly happy to stay at that level.

    My own experience is that the longest I have worked for one organisation is eight years (although not in same job) and the shortest ten days (I decided it wasn't for me!) but both taught me valuable things about myself, my motivation and the organisations I want to work for. I consider neither too long or too short

    My final thought, and its a bit of a cliche I use when I am coaching runners, is that we are all experiments of one. We are the only person to follow our path, our way. Trying to rigidly follow someone elses pre-determined path is unlikely to work. So by all means understand what goes into other peoples career progression but don't be a slave to it. Follow your opportunities in your way.
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  • There are no unwritten rules to be honest

    Stay in a job as long as you are enjoying it and are adding value to both the organisation and your CV (if you are building your CV that is). There are individuals who have worked in an organisation their entire working lives (The CEO in one of our businesses for example - he started on the front line and is now CEO not bad!) where as other people find the opportunity and challenges come from moving around far more often.

    I think why people suggest a couple of years as a rough "minimum" is that it gives you the opportunity to experience a couple of cycles of the organisation and to ad value in that time. But you can certainly add value in a lot less or over a far longer period. The danger with shorter periods - particularly less than a year/18 months is that (a) you will find it more difficult to demonstrate you have really added value and (b) the new employer may fear you wont stay and wont therefore give you a chance. So if you have shorter periods you need a good narrative as to what you achieved and why you moved on. Most employers will probably excuse one such move but question harder several.

    There is no problem being a HR Assistant for 5 years in one organisation then moving to another organisation for 5 years as a HR assistant. Its probably not the profile of a future HR Director (although sure someone will have) but not every can or wants to be a HR director. As long as they enjoyed the roles and were a good employee then so what? We all need people who are good at their job and broadly happy to stay at that level.

    My own experience is that the longest I have worked for one organisation is eight years (although not in same job) and the shortest ten days (I decided it wasn't for me!) but both taught me valuable things about myself, my motivation and the organisations I want to work for. I consider neither too long or too short

    My final thought, and its a bit of a cliche I use when I am coaching runners, is that we are all experiments of one. We are the only person to follow our path, our way. Trying to rigidly follow someone elses pre-determined path is unlikely to work. So by all means understand what goes into other peoples career progression but don't be a slave to it. Follow your opportunities in your way.
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