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Starting a new career in HR

Stuart

Hi All,

My name is Stuart, I'm 27 and from the Lake District, I just wanted to come on here and introduce myself as I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time on these boards in the coming months.  

For the last 10 years I have worked within the Police Service where I have spent the last 8 as a PC, over the last few months I have developed a real interest in both HR and L&D with a particular interest in the field of employee welfare at work.  I've been doing my research and am now fairly sure I am going to be starting a CIPD Level 3 Diploma in the coming weeks through ICS, I'd be really interested to hear how others have managed with distance learning particularly those who have worked shifts whilst doing it, I have to admit I am quite apprehensive about juggling a full time job, childcare and "adulting" in general whilst studying.

Looking forward to this new adventure and getting to know some of you.

Best wishes.

Stuart

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  • Hi Stuart,

    Welcome - to reassure you, I completed the Level 5 Diploma in Learning and Development as a distance course at the same time as; working full time, relocating from abroad back to the UK, managing 4 step-children, and general 'adulting'. It can be done! (Caveat I did mine with Avado).

    I found I had to be strict with my time - planning out when assignments were due and working backwards to fit in study and research time, and there were times some aspect of general adulting had to give way (occasionally missing a casual night out). but on the whole because I found the study interesting, the pace was my own, and if I got stuck I could ask my cohort for help, it just worked really well.

    I did find that although advertised as totally online, I needed to print resources and research off but then that was my preference.

    Kind regards,
    Laura
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  • Hi Stuart,

    Welcome - to reassure you, I completed the Level 5 Diploma in Learning and Development as a distance course at the same time as; working full time, relocating from abroad back to the UK, managing 4 step-children, and general 'adulting'. It can be done! (Caveat I did mine with Avado).

    I found I had to be strict with my time - planning out when assignments were due and working backwards to fit in study and research time, and there were times some aspect of general adulting had to give way (occasionally missing a casual night out). but on the whole because I found the study interesting, the pace was my own, and if I got stuck I could ask my cohort for help, it just worked really well.

    I did find that although advertised as totally online, I needed to print resources and research off but then that was my preference.

    Kind regards,
    Laura
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