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Working in HR? If you could start again, would you?

Steve Bridger

You're looking at me quizzically... 'Odd question', you're thinking. 'Why ask that?'

No agenda... I was just thinking out loud... those of you who are HR (or L & D) veterans; with all your experience and expertise - if you knew then (at the start of your career journey)... what you know now, would you do it all again?

Maybe you are relatively new to the profession. What would you do differently? 

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  • Like Teresa, HR chose me. Not knowing what I wanted to do when I left college, I didn't go to uni, and had been working since 16. So when I finished college, I upped my hours to full time and off I went.

    I got my first HR role in a large department store due to me having worked in a cash office when I was a student (it was a dual HR/business support role when I joined and it just so happened that I was put in the HR team, as opposed to the BS team).

    I enjoy HR most of the time, but if I could start again, I wouldn't choose it. Although that might partly be a reflection on the current role I am in (not going so well, been here since June).

    Having said that, I have absolutely no idea what I actually want to be or do! Maybe I'll have an epiphany one day...
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  • Like Teresa, HR chose me. Not knowing what I wanted to do when I left college, I didn't go to uni, and had been working since 16. So when I finished college, I upped my hours to full time and off I went.

    I got my first HR role in a large department store due to me having worked in a cash office when I was a student (it was a dual HR/business support role when I joined and it just so happened that I was put in the HR team, as opposed to the BS team).

    I enjoy HR most of the time, but if I could start again, I wouldn't choose it. Although that might partly be a reflection on the current role I am in (not going so well, been here since June).

    Having said that, I have absolutely no idea what I actually want to be or do! Maybe I'll have an epiphany one day...
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