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Moving to a standalone HR role from a big corporate HR team...

Charlie

Hi All!

Just wondering whether anyone has experienced going from a corporate company with a big HR team to a stand alone HR role incorporating everything HR, Recruitment and L&D. Whether there is anything to consider/weigh up and any challenges you've faced making the jump?

Thank you

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  • Hi Charlie

    I have made this transition and I echo Alun's comment on losing your internal peer network. I went from a big group where we had about 50 of us at our annual internal HR conference, and that was without the administrators and assistants, to an SME where there was an administrator and an advisor in place, but both with very little experience and not able to act as a "critical friend". You will need to build your own network and these forums are an invaluable resource. It isn't just the ability to post your own issues and get advice: just a few minutes a day scanning what has been posted and what other people have responded is developmental.

    There will be times when your organisation looks to you to get them out of a hole or find a way forward and sometimes you will need broad shoulders. Yes, there are some situations where there is a right way to handle them and it's set out in law or an Acas code. But there are many more occasions when there is no one right way, it is the best fit for your organisation, or even the least bad of a set of bad choices. Then you have to be brave and do your best and, once again, these forums are invaluable as a sense check or for moral support.
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  • Hi Charlie

    I have made this transition and I echo Alun's comment on losing your internal peer network. I went from a big group where we had about 50 of us at our annual internal HR conference, and that was without the administrators and assistants, to an SME where there was an administrator and an advisor in place, but both with very little experience and not able to act as a "critical friend". You will need to build your own network and these forums are an invaluable resource. It isn't just the ability to post your own issues and get advice: just a few minutes a day scanning what has been posted and what other people have responded is developmental.

    There will be times when your organisation looks to you to get them out of a hole or find a way forward and sometimes you will need broad shoulders. Yes, there are some situations where there is a right way to handle them and it's set out in law or an Acas code. But there are many more occasions when there is no one right way, it is the best fit for your organisation, or even the least bad of a set of bad choices. Then you have to be brave and do your best and, once again, these forums are invaluable as a sense check or for moral support.
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