How did you get into HR??

I sort of fell into HR (although most of my jobs were heavily exposed to one or more aspects of HR) after working for a recruitment agency after college and then some interim general admin roles I ended up working for the HR Manager in a small but growing construction firm and ended up creating a role that solely focussed on HR (after completing the CPP and am now CIPD part-qualified and working my way through the PDS). 

Funnily enough though, at the careers fair at school when I was 14/15 I remember spending a lot of time at the "careers in personnel" stand and possibly in my parents loft somewhere is a whole load of literature regarding HR as a profession!

I think as a profession we should highlight the many paths into HR and that not one prescribed route is best and that the greater the variety we have in our profession the better.

I sort of fell into HR (although most of my jobs were heavily exposed to one or more aspects of HR) after working for a recruitment agency after college and then some interim general admin roles I ended up working for the HR Manager in a small but growing construction firm and ended up creating a role that solely focussed on HR (after completing the CPP and am now CIPD part-qualified and working my way through the PDS). 

Funnily enough though, at the careers fair at school when I was 14/15 I remember spending a lot of time at the "careers in personnel" stand and possibly in my parents loft somewhere is a whole load of literature regarding HR as a profession!

I think as a profession we should highlight the many paths into HR and that not one prescribed route is best and that the greater the variety we have in our profession the better.