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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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  • Hi,


    I started off working in Santa's grotto as an Elf. Due to a sudden down turn in business towards the end of the year (which I suppose I should have seen coming, but wasn't too strategic at that point in my life), I realised I would have to broaden my horizons.


    Couldn't decide what to do, so my girlfriend (at that time) advised me to go into a particular and more mainstream line of work - as I didn't have a good reason not to, I did ... struggled to feel confident speaking to groups of people, so became a trainer ... which then turned into training management and then HR Management ...


    Have progressed and gone full circle, I suppose, as I now also do ad hoc Father Christmas duties for fun in December each year, so if you saw a Santa in Daventry, Pocklington or Warrington last December, it may have been me.


    Paul

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  • Hi,


    I started off working in Santa's grotto as an Elf. Due to a sudden down turn in business towards the end of the year (which I suppose I should have seen coming, but wasn't too strategic at that point in my life), I realised I would have to broaden my horizons.


    Couldn't decide what to do, so my girlfriend (at that time) advised me to go into a particular and more mainstream line of work - as I didn't have a good reason not to, I did ... struggled to feel confident speaking to groups of people, so became a trainer ... which then turned into training management and then HR Management ...


    Have progressed and gone full circle, I suppose, as I now also do ad hoc Father Christmas duties for fun in December each year, so if you saw a Santa in Daventry, Pocklington or Warrington last December, it may have been me.


    Paul

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