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Bryan

Hello All,

I am presently completing my level 5 in HR. I plan and will be finished at latest in December 2020 however I am hopeful to be completed before then.

My background is as a duty manager, line manager, senior manager and business owner in sports, retail and food service industries which had given me 20 years experience as a manager with 9 years of it in a larger retailer where as a line manager and senior manager I had a lot of exposure to dealing with people management and HR within my roles such as recruitment and selection, performance management, people management, disclipnary and investigations etc which I am seeing especially now with completion of this course.

My question is how do I translate this into jobs I can apply for once the course is completed.

For example I have a lot of business experience so would I be considered for a HR business partner role? 

Thanks for your help in advance.

I am from Edinburgh and would be looking to commence a full or part time role in HR on completion of the course and I am flexible to what level I start.

Bryan

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  • Hi Bryan

    I did my Level 5 qualification in 2016/17 hoping to move into HR. I have 9 years experience as a trainer and (now) have 5 years experience as a manager. The biggest problem I found was that any job I applied for wanted direct HR advisory experience over qualifications.

    For the last 17 years I have worked in a role that deals with implementing legislation directly (albeit nor HR legislation) but the idea is the same.

    Unfortunately I have been unable to find a role that can pay me something near to what I am currently on. I don't expect the same level of pay but, as other posters have said, I would need to take a pay cut of around £13k to get into HR and just cannot do this.

    Good luck in your search though.

    Craig
  • in reply to Craig
    Thanks for your reply it’s appreciated. Have you used your course to help your development in the industry in the company you where already based then as a manager?
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    Hi Bryan

    My manager knows HR is what I would like to do and I have been getting more involved in the HR side of things. The rest of the management team will also ask me for advice or refer things to me (I think they are secretly happy to be able to offload some of this to be honest). So yes, I have been able to develop my role more but the day to day job still take priority.