Hi, first time posting here...I really need some advice please.
I've made the decision to leave but my question is this:
should I stay in a job where I can actually feel 'skill fade' daily and it's affecting my mental health?
Or should I resign and continue my job search with a gap in my CV?
(note this isn't about money)
For context:
I've been 4 months with a new company as a HR Business Partner role. I was with my previous company for more than 10 Years, and held a BP role for the last 3 years of that.
The reason I left was because I wanted a new challenge, not because I was unhappy. I believed my current role was part of the evolution of HR for this company from transactional to enabling. It has quickly become clear that while that's what has been said, it's not what they actually want. I'm a very well paid Advisor and Manager, but will not be given the resources (time, training) to achieve better results. I'm constantly firefighting.
This is not the job I applied for, and to be honest I think they've been dishonest in how they represented the role.
I have discussed my concerns with my manager and a trusted senior leader, both of whom accept the above. They also acknowledge they don't thing things will change and can't help me to influence the role HR has to become truly enabling.
advice appreciated, thankyou!
I posted something similar earlier this year about my own situation and being recruited into an HR Manager role for a manufacturing company that has never had an HR function. Several people left some great comments and I took that advise on board but ultimately, I left that toxic environment with no regards for HR and what it entails. Immediately I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders. Naturally I questions things like my own ability, did I make the right choice, could I have done more etc. But like I said, I used the advice I received on this platform and put it into practice with a new employer on a consultancy/advisory basis. That contract is soon coming to an end. Anyone want to give me a job?
Do what you feel is best for you. Health and wellbeing always comes first.
I posted something similar earlier this year about my own situation and being recruited into an HR Manager role for a manufacturing company that has never had an HR function. Several people left some great comments and I took that advise on board but ultimately, I left that toxic environment with no regards for HR and what it entails. Immediately I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders. Naturally I questions things like my own ability, did I make the right choice, could I have done more etc. But like I said, I used the advice I received on this platform and put it into practice with a new employer on a consultancy/advisory basis. That contract is soon coming to an end. Anyone want to give me a job?
Do what you feel is best for you. Health and wellbeing always comes first.
