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If you could take just one more qualification what would it be...?

Rachel

Hi All

I have managerial background (10 years in junior managerial roles), a subsequent late arrival to HR (now an HR Advisor with a heavy ER bias) and a number of qualifications.  CMS, CPP, CIPD Level 5 but in thinking of the future I wonder what one final course (final means expensive probably) would you do and why? 

In asking why I'd love to know if it would be out something nice to do or can you foresee the future of HR and the direction that our learning and development needs to take next.

Any answers gratefully received

Rachel 

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  • I want to do a Masters in Employment Law. But I also want to sleep in sometimes at the weekends, and have long working hours and three children to co-ordinate, so I've kicked it to the long grass at the moment. But it's out there, in the future ...

    My one criteria for selection (and I've spent lots of time looking at courses that I'm not ready to do yet) is that they are not exam-assessed. I did my Graduate Diploma in Law some years ago, and while the competition for training positions with new grads means that is always intensive, I hated being 'taught for the test'. You get such a distorted view of a subject, where your knowledge is about how to answer standard exam questions rather than a proper understanding of the underpinning law. I'm too old for that - I want my learning to be creative, reflective and informative if I study again, so I'm only interested in courses that are assessed by coursework rather than exam. One day! [Climbs down off soapbox.]
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  • I want to do a Masters in Employment Law. But I also want to sleep in sometimes at the weekends, and have long working hours and three children to co-ordinate, so I've kicked it to the long grass at the moment. But it's out there, in the future ...

    My one criteria for selection (and I've spent lots of time looking at courses that I'm not ready to do yet) is that they are not exam-assessed. I did my Graduate Diploma in Law some years ago, and while the competition for training positions with new grads means that is always intensive, I hated being 'taught for the test'. You get such a distorted view of a subject, where your knowledge is about how to answer standard exam questions rather than a proper understanding of the underpinning law. I'm too old for that - I want my learning to be creative, reflective and informative if I study again, so I'm only interested in courses that are assessed by coursework rather than exam. One day! [Climbs down off soapbox.]
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