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Tazeen

Hello fellow HR friends

I have a question re HR job titles. My last role was a dual role managing finance and HR and my job title was Assistant Accountant and HR Officer. I was the stand alone HR person in a very small organisation but have dealt with all generalist HR stuff. Having completed CIPD level 5, I wanted to move to a sole HR roles. I applied for HR advisor roles but was always told that due to the size of my old organisation, I did not have enough ER exposure. So I started applying for HR officer and coordinator roles.

Can someone explain the difference between the two as the job description is sort of similar, though some officer roles ask for some ER exposure whilst coordinator roles were purely admin related. 

I have recently had an interview for a coordinator role and the feedback I got was vey positive and there is a possibility they may offer me the role. The salary is below what I expected. Is going for a coordinator role a step down from an officer role? 

I am finding getting a break into HR quite difficult even though I am CIPD level 5 qualified and have experience with general HR but on a small scale. 

So basically I am after some advise and also an idea of the job title differentiation.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Tazeen

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  • I agree with Keith on this, there are some broad trends on job titles but they can mean anything depending on the organisation. In my current workplace I joined as HR Assistant but I was really a standalone HR Generalist doing everything from recruitment to exit interviews. We were quite small so we didn't have much ER to get experience from. We since then recruited a HR Director and were able to put my development plan in and changed my job title to reflect my actual role more realistically. I am currently also slowly getting more ER exposure but it was also previously a block for me to progress...It can be difficult to gain real hand's on experience in smaller companies. I hope you find something soon, maybe sometimes it's good to take a little step back but if it offers a good development and career progression plan then you could soon find yourself where you want to be :)
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  • I agree with Keith on this, there are some broad trends on job titles but they can mean anything depending on the organisation. In my current workplace I joined as HR Assistant but I was really a standalone HR Generalist doing everything from recruitment to exit interviews. We were quite small so we didn't have much ER to get experience from. We since then recruited a HR Director and were able to put my development plan in and changed my job title to reflect my actual role more realistically. I am currently also slowly getting more ER exposure but it was also previously a block for me to progress...It can be difficult to gain real hand's on experience in smaller companies. I hope you find something soon, maybe sometimes it's good to take a little step back but if it offers a good development and career progression plan then you could soon find yourself where you want to be :)
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