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Sinead

Hi All,

This is my first post on the forums so I'm hoping that I've come to the right place!

It's that time of year again, and I've just had my end of year review with my Head of T&D who is my line manager. She has asked the inevitable question of where I want to be in 12 months and how I'm going to get there and I've immediately come up blank.

As a bit of background, I've worked as a T&D officer for around 8 years, I've got my CIPD qualifications and am currently working for a company who have different UK locations. I am the only T&D presence in my office, with no plans or real opportunity to expand the proposition.

My current role is quite varied already, as I'm currently:

- Designing, reviewing and delivering monthly induction
- Leading development programmes (middle management, senior leadership)
- Supporting the design/delivery/assessment of in-house apprenticeships

My manager is not really interested in me gaining any further qualifications but wants me to have a clear career plan for myself.

I was just wondering if anyone had any advice or experience in this type of situation? I just have no idea what the next step in my career would be!

Thank you so much in advance!

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  • Welcome to the Community, Sinead. You've posted to the right place, I think.
  • in reply to Steve Bridger
    Sound advice from Lisa. You may also want to consider whether you want to broaden your scope into other HR areas - even if you stay core T&D in your orientations the experience of looking at staff issues from other angles (recruitment, C&B, IR, HR & training IT systems...) will give you a broader perspective on how T&D fits into the bigger HR & business picture. Food for thought.....
  • in reply to Ray
    Thank you Ray! Strangely, I've been working a lot with our HRBPs recently and have been thinking about getting more involved with that side of it but wasn't sure how I could explain my interest to my manager... Your suggestion makes so much sense and won't make it look like I'm wanting to jump ship! Thank you
  • in reply to Sinead
    Glad the idea helps. Whatever speciality a person has in HR it's always a big plus to understand how the other specialities work so that you don't tread on each others toes through misunderstanding some basic specialist things.
    I teach an international MBA in HR with a Compensation & Benefits speciality and every year I tell my students that the best Comp & Ben people I have worked with are those who have had either a generalist role beforehad, or who have worked in specialities like recruitment, development etc. Why? Because they understand by experience how they can add value to their colleagues activities !
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  • in reply to Sinead
    Glad the idea helps. Whatever speciality a person has in HR it's always a big plus to understand how the other specialities work so that you don't tread on each others toes through misunderstanding some basic specialist things.
    I teach an international MBA in HR with a Compensation & Benefits speciality and every year I tell my students that the best Comp & Ben people I have worked with are those who have had either a generalist role beforehad, or who have worked in specialities like recruitment, development etc. Why? Because they understand by experience how they can add value to their colleagues activities !
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