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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 planned it too, I decided when choosing my GCSE options I wanted to work in HR (naively at the time I liked the sound of sacking someone!).  After A levels I decided not to go to uni as there were not any HR degrees so I got a job in pensions admin and battled for a few years to get a HR job, I then worked at a HR outsourcing Company and while there got exposure to employee relations and decided I wanted to do that so I got a role as an ER advisor and progressed to HR Manager while doing my CIPD (and got my childhood ambition of sacking people - not as much fun as a 13 year old thought it would be!). 


    I then got an opportunity to move into Consultancy and 4 years later I'm still here and have just completed a master in employment law (LLM). 

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  • I planned it too, I decided when choosing my GCSE options I wanted to work in HR (naively at the time I liked the sound of sacking someone!).  After A levels I decided not to go to uni as there were not any HR degrees so I got a job in pensions admin and battled for a few years to get a HR job, I then worked at a HR outsourcing Company and while there got exposure to employee relations and decided I wanted to do that so I got a role as an ER advisor and progressed to HR Manager while doing my CIPD (and got my childhood ambition of sacking people - not as much fun as a 13 year old thought it would be!). 


    I then got an opportunity to move into Consultancy and 4 years later I'm still here and have just completed a master in employment law (LLM). 

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