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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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  • As I completed it over 20 years the equivalent of Level 3 is somewhat different to now and I wasnt even working in HR when I started it. Even though I had recently completed a non HR degree back then, I still found it quite a challenge at the time but being class based rather than remote really helped.
    A few years back I started on my Level 5 qualification and even though had a degree and had, worked in HR for 20 years (albeit at mainly Assistant level) it was still a struggle at 1st to get into the 'style' etc of what was required. Even though I failed or partially some of my assignments my Coach/Assessor (and I had mentor support from a colleague) were really helpful with feedback and guidance to get me back on the right track. So although it felt a challenge at 1st, it did get easier as I got more of a feeling of what was required.
    Would also definately recommend the Study skills books as found these really helpful (and were included on my reading list).
    Good luck and don't give up!
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  • As I completed it over 20 years the equivalent of Level 3 is somewhat different to now and I wasnt even working in HR when I started it. Even though I had recently completed a non HR degree back then, I still found it quite a challenge at the time but being class based rather than remote really helped.
    A few years back I started on my Level 5 qualification and even though had a degree and had, worked in HR for 20 years (albeit at mainly Assistant level) it was still a struggle at 1st to get into the 'style' etc of what was required. Even though I failed or partially some of my assignments my Coach/Assessor (and I had mentor support from a colleague) were really helpful with feedback and guidance to get me back on the right track. So although it felt a challenge at 1st, it did get easier as I got more of a feeling of what was required.
    Would also definately recommend the Study skills books as found these really helpful (and were included on my reading list).
    Good luck and don't give up!
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