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How did you get into HR??

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When networking I find that a lot of HR practioners "fell into" their HR careers.


I myself decided at age 17 that I wanted to do a BA in HRM and then I gained experience and went onto do my CIPD.


I'm interested to find out how others got into HR.


 

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  • I fell into HR, via the secretarial route.  I had been the secretary to the accounts manager in a foreign investment bank, was bored silly after the first few months and was contemplating leaving.  My disillusionment with my job was obvioiusly noticed, and I was offered the opportunity to transfer to another department, to become the secretary of the operations manager who also had responsibility for personnel (as it was in those days).  My duties took on more and more of an admin slant and I became a personnel assistant.  The personnel officer resigned, I asked for her job and got it.......and so it went on.  Studies and qualifications came much later.
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  • I fell into HR, via the secretarial route.  I had been the secretary to the accounts manager in a foreign investment bank, was bored silly after the first few months and was contemplating leaving.  My disillusionment with my job was obvioiusly noticed, and I was offered the opportunity to transfer to another department, to become the secretary of the operations manager who also had responsibility for personnel (as it was in those days).  My duties took on more and more of an admin slant and I became a personnel assistant.  The personnel officer resigned, I asked for her job and got it.......and so it went on.  Studies and qualifications came much later.
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