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HR Standalone role

Danielle Hemmings

Hi everyone,

Are there any standalone HR Managers out there who can tell me the pro's/con's of being standalone?

I have been offered a standalone role, I have always worked as part of a team so am looking to weigh up the pro's/con's before making a decision.

Thanks!

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  • Hi Danielle

    Can second the excellent points made by colleagues. Like David, I got thrown in at the deep end and (mostly) swam, but inevitably made mistakes. My manager told me to go ahead and trust my own judgment, he'd back me to the hilt unless I made the same mistake twice!

    So in a company with a culture of treating mistakes as learning tools, being a standalone is an excellent opportunity, and can be fun, exhilarating and very satisfying.

    In a company with a blame culture, it can be a nightmare. I've worked in both, the latter experience made me desperate to join a team (which is why I now spend time on here which I had not been allowed to do previously :) ...) I also struggled with Imposter syndrome for a long while.

    One thing maybe not mentioned is that after a few years it does become quite hard to measure yourself against your peers: you have no idea how well your approach, knowledge, way of doing things etc stack up "in the real world" outside your organisation. I made things up as I went along and then went and joined an HR team, where I found (thankfully) that the way they organised things was not so very different to how I would have done it myself. I learned a bit more and went back to being a standalone.
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  • Hi Danielle

    Can second the excellent points made by colleagues. Like David, I got thrown in at the deep end and (mostly) swam, but inevitably made mistakes. My manager told me to go ahead and trust my own judgment, he'd back me to the hilt unless I made the same mistake twice!

    So in a company with a culture of treating mistakes as learning tools, being a standalone is an excellent opportunity, and can be fun, exhilarating and very satisfying.

    In a company with a blame culture, it can be a nightmare. I've worked in both, the latter experience made me desperate to join a team (which is why I now spend time on here which I had not been allowed to do previously :) ...) I also struggled with Imposter syndrome for a long while.

    One thing maybe not mentioned is that after a few years it does become quite hard to measure yourself against your peers: you have no idea how well your approach, knowledge, way of doing things etc stack up "in the real world" outside your organisation. I made things up as I went along and then went and joined an HR team, where I found (thankfully) that the way they organised things was not so very different to how I would have done it myself. I learned a bit more and went back to being a standalone.
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