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HR Career Over Before Starting? Can I Progress If Don’t Have Qualification?

Jennifer

As a bit of context, I’m in a HR Assistant role and signed up for Level 3. I’ve been struggling to study while balancing full time work, though I felt I was making slow and steady progress and the information I was reading was sinking in. Yet when it came to my first assessment, I failed. Feedback from tutor was that I wasn’t providing analytical and academic writing.

I feel like an idiot, though after thinking about things realistically, I’m not an academically minded person. I did a HNC in Business Admin at college but never progressed to university. I can take in the overview of a subject and i think I learn best by doing and repeating, but writing and presenting information in an analyst overall essay style has never been my forte.

I don’t know what to do now really. I feel like I’m stuck and won’t progress because I may not gain the entry level qualification, or any other one for that matter. Part of me feels like I should admit that HR isn’t right for me (I’ve been feeling increasingly anxious at work and overwhelmed anyways) but then I do find the subject matter and queries we get daily so interesting, and I feel like I do a good job at supporting the HR Advisers and staff. I just don’t want to be stuck at this level with no progression indefinitely and waste everyone’s time.

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  • Welcome to the Community Jennifer

    I don't have any doubt in your ability to achieve this qualification. For a start you didn't fail, you learned. You won't always pass first time, in my experience more than half the students don't pass the first assessment and it's all part of learning how to learn. Don't be afraid of not passing first time, it's just part of the process, we often say "Don't get it right get it wrote". Look forward to the feedback and if you don't understand the feedback ask you tutor to explain.

    It sounds to meet that you didn't quite understand the requirements of the assessment. You should receive a learner assessment brief with each module. Look at the assessment criteria checklist and identify the command words, (for example: define, explain, discuss). There are guides to help you understand what you're expected to do in realtion to a command word, here's one example (abma.uk.com/.../A-Guide-to-Command-Words.pdf) but there are a few more for free on the web.

    There are also some great study guides out there for free and a few guides to academic writing also. There is also some great tips and advice in the student section of the CIPD website. I would recommend you try to pick up a copy of "The Study Skills Handbook" by Stella Cottrell it has some great advice and you can normally pick up a cheap copy on amazon.

    You may find it helpful to study in a group and there are some threads on the forum or start a whattsapp group with your fellow students. But keep going, there are more interesting modules to come, and the qualification is worth it.

    Good luck
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  • Welcome to the Community Jennifer

    I don't have any doubt in your ability to achieve this qualification. For a start you didn't fail, you learned. You won't always pass first time, in my experience more than half the students don't pass the first assessment and it's all part of learning how to learn. Don't be afraid of not passing first time, it's just part of the process, we often say "Don't get it right get it wrote". Look forward to the feedback and if you don't understand the feedback ask you tutor to explain.

    It sounds to meet that you didn't quite understand the requirements of the assessment. You should receive a learner assessment brief with each module. Look at the assessment criteria checklist and identify the command words, (for example: define, explain, discuss). There are guides to help you understand what you're expected to do in realtion to a command word, here's one example (abma.uk.com/.../A-Guide-to-Command-Words.pdf) but there are a few more for free on the web.

    There are also some great study guides out there for free and a few guides to academic writing also. There is also some great tips and advice in the student section of the CIPD website. I would recommend you try to pick up a copy of "The Study Skills Handbook" by Stella Cottrell it has some great advice and you can normally pick up a cheap copy on amazon.

    You may find it helpful to study in a group and there are some threads on the forum or start a whattsapp group with your fellow students. But keep going, there are more interesting modules to come, and the qualification is worth it.

    Good luck
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