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Barbara Jorman

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I am at the beginning of my HR career. Following my educational background (BA in Personnel Consultancy) one year ago I completed CIPD qualification ( Assoc CIPD). Additionally, I am a mother with gap in my career so I struggle to get into HR filed with no experience in HR (just 10 years work in admin and PA positions which I held long time ago).Finally, 6 months ago I found a job in a small accountancy office (with 7 employees on the board). Although the owner offered me only admin duties with some bookkeeping  she asked me if I can do HR in her company and she was very positive that I'm a CIPD member, participating in CIPD events. I created for her company new staff handbook (she asked to put my name as an HR officer for staff to contact), I informed staff about HR news and interesting tips, I updated her about legislative changes and so on.  I offered my help with creating job description, employment contracts,induction process. I've done bookkeeping (which I had to learn) and HR. The most important thing in this story is that I do never received  my job description and....no signed contract. When I asked about this docs, she sent me an offer letter with position of administration assistant..I feel cheated because this not exactly what I do and it's very low position according to my CIPD qualification (and even my previous experience). I requested for changing to HR officer/ Administrator but she refused explaining that it isn't what I am doing in her company and it is illegal (?!)..I tried to explain her that is very important for me to have a job title which is related with HR because of my professional further and exposition to social media, CV and so on but still she didn't want to change it. Finally I did not sign contract with her...I feel that she used me..I am upset because I worked 6 months for this company and I can't prove it..I know that it was my mistake that I didn't ask from the beginning for job description and employment agreement..but I was desperate to do an HR job and gain some experience...  

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  • I wouldn't worry too much about the job title, I've had some obscure ones in my time that related very little to what I did day to day! Your CV is your CV - it's your space to talk about job responsibilities, day to day tasks, key achievements and things that you're proud of! As you'll know, it's common in small companies to have HR tasks lumped in with someone else's job, so prospective employers wouldn't be surprised to see the job title Finance Assistant, for example, then read on to see that 90% of what you actually do is say, HR Admin!
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  • I wouldn't worry too much about the job title, I've had some obscure ones in my time that related very little to what I did day to day! Your CV is your CV - it's your space to talk about job responsibilities, day to day tasks, key achievements and things that you're proud of! As you'll know, it's common in small companies to have HR tasks lumped in with someone else's job, so prospective employers wouldn't be surprised to see the job title Finance Assistant, for example, then read on to see that 90% of what you actually do is say, HR Admin!
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