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How far can paper qualifications alone carry someone in their HR career?

Andre

Let's take the following scenario that someone has a high grade BA, MA & PhD in Human Resources from a leading university, coupled with both CIPD Level 7's in Human Resources Management & Learning and Development. They have also gained the Associate Membership of our body and also taken advantage of that reciprocal agreement with the Australian Institute of HR to gain their professional membership. 

However, they are either currently working as an HR Administrator or not in HR, and also do not currently have HR / ER Advisory, Management, Business Partnering or Director level experience. 

Taking all the weight of those qualifications combined, do they still have to go in at a certain entry level and progress upwards overtime and with experience on a structured vertical career trajectory pathway, or could they immediately jump into a more senior level role based purely on those professional qualifications and advanced degrees alone, as a type of 'short cut.'?       

Alternatively, in HR is operational experience the real key to advancement and although qualifications help compliment it, they neither supersede it, nor can someone have one without the other?

Having said that, HR academia and research may also come calling.      

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  • I am the very model of a modern Major-General
    I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
    I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
    From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
    I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
    I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
    About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
    Lot o' news, ahh
    With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse


    I'd just leave that there without comment, but risk seeming obtuse.

    Gilbert & Sullivan lampooned their "modern Major General" in The Pirates of Penzance with a character who was supremely well-educated, well-informed and well-spoken but who nevertheless lacked the one quality that most right-thinking people would expect from a war leader: an experience of actually leading fighting men in war.

    The vast majority of business leaders, in my opinion, would be delighted with a senior HR Manager or HRD whose qualifications in the field extended to an MSc or PhD. But they would, before anything else and in my opinion, rightly, be looking for someone who had actual, demonstrable experience as a leader and manager in the HR field.

    As a Colour Sergeant of my experience used to say when he thought my leopard crawl was insufficiently flat: "Nothing teaches you to keep you %&*£ing head down, Mr Jenkins, like having it $%&*ing shot off!"
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  • I am the very model of a modern Major-General
    I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
    I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
    From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
    I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
    I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
    About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
    Lot o' news, ahh
    With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse


    I'd just leave that there without comment, but risk seeming obtuse.

    Gilbert & Sullivan lampooned their "modern Major General" in The Pirates of Penzance with a character who was supremely well-educated, well-informed and well-spoken but who nevertheless lacked the one quality that most right-thinking people would expect from a war leader: an experience of actually leading fighting men in war.

    The vast majority of business leaders, in my opinion, would be delighted with a senior HR Manager or HRD whose qualifications in the field extended to an MSc or PhD. But they would, before anything else and in my opinion, rightly, be looking for someone who had actual, demonstrable experience as a leader and manager in the HR field.

    As a Colour Sergeant of my experience used to say when he thought my leopard crawl was insufficiently flat: "Nothing teaches you to keep you %&*£ing head down, Mr Jenkins, like having it $%&*ing shot off!"
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