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Membership is it worth keeping

Rachel Brooks

Hello Everyone,

I am looking at renewing my CIPD Asssiocate Membership but I have struggled getting an HR role which I have tried since leaving university back in 2018. 

I have mostly worked in care and at the moment, my new role is Learning Support with young adults with learning disabilities. I am now thinking should I cancel my CIPD, I never imagined the difficulties establishing a career within HR - even HR assistant jobs ask for a few years experience. 

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  • Hi Rachel,

    For me it is a matter of how much you really want to be in HR.

    For me it took 5 years but since I had only CIPD Level 3 and Level 5 to demonstrate and no university degree (my BA is in English literature plus 10 years of teaching experience), being an associate member also helped. I finally got a Learning and Development role and my manager told me that she was looking only at CIPD qualified individuals.

    There are also a lot of resources, useful information to go through should you have the time and it helps with staying current with the profession, I have used a lot of ideas and knowledge from the CIPD website to persuade interviewers that I really have a passion for it.

    Since you are in a Learning Support role, it might be better aiming for Learning & Development, my impression is there are too many candidates with HR general studies but less with Learning & Development specialist studies, for example I am now trying to upskill myself for a learning technologist role, nowadays there is a lot of demand for that.

    I would also explore finding a mentor and networking opportunities via CIPD, this is something I haven't done yet but I was thinking that it might help since I would like to move on to a specialist role. I am so grateful that we have a community here where I am getting help and advice, this is really valuable and I couldn't thank the other members enough.

    I hope this helps!

    Have a lovely day,

    Ariadni
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  • Hi Rachel,

    For me it is a matter of how much you really want to be in HR.

    For me it took 5 years but since I had only CIPD Level 3 and Level 5 to demonstrate and no university degree (my BA is in English literature plus 10 years of teaching experience), being an associate member also helped. I finally got a Learning and Development role and my manager told me that she was looking only at CIPD qualified individuals.

    There are also a lot of resources, useful information to go through should you have the time and it helps with staying current with the profession, I have used a lot of ideas and knowledge from the CIPD website to persuade interviewers that I really have a passion for it.

    Since you are in a Learning Support role, it might be better aiming for Learning & Development, my impression is there are too many candidates with HR general studies but less with Learning & Development specialist studies, for example I am now trying to upskill myself for a learning technologist role, nowadays there is a lot of demand for that.

    I would also explore finding a mentor and networking opportunities via CIPD, this is something I haven't done yet but I was thinking that it might help since I would like to move on to a specialist role. I am so grateful that we have a community here where I am getting help and advice, this is really valuable and I couldn't thank the other members enough.

    I hope this helps!

    Have a lovely day,

    Ariadni
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