Welcome to the Community, Yasmin.

Tagging Jacqueline, who may have a view :)

Hi Yasmin

I think it very much depends on the organisation and HR team. I was a HR Analyst, dealing with reward, data analysis and HR system implementation and sys admin, for nine year in a medium size third sector organisation. Because of the size of the organisation I was the sole reward and information specialist so I got involved in lots of different things and worked closely with the rest of the HR Team. I then moved to be a HR GDPR specialist in a very large organisation and I was very siloed away from the HR team which I didn't enjoy at all.

Since then I've returned to generalist HR but all the roles I've worked in have made use of my specialist skill set - at the moment I'm an HR Adviser for a medium size charity but I'm heavily involved in a Pay and Grading project, modelling the impact of the changes to pay. We also have a HR Systems Manager and a HR Systems Officer, who make up a team with our HR Administrators.

So you could go one of two ways - look for a Reward/Systems role that seems well embedded in the HR Team (possibly in small to medium size organisations) or look at HR Generalist roles, but emphasise your skill set and willingness to get involved in data heavy projects.

Hope that helps.

Kind regards

Jackie

Hello Jackie, thank you so much for your response! That is really helpful, on many levels. Good food for thought, especially the generalist HR option, like you say you can look for embedded teams, however still focussing on your main strengths. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond! Kind regards, Yasmin

Thanks Steve!

In reply to Jacqueline:

...and thanks, Jackie :)

In reply to Jacqueline:

...and thanks, Jackie :)

In reply to Steve Bridger:

It would be good to hear from other people in Reward/HR Analysis too to see what their career paths have been like. ;-)