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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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  • Hi Steve
    If I had my time over again, I would decide to go into HR. I started in general secretarial roles and gradually took on office management type roles which led over 25 years ago to a role in HR, starting off as an Advisor and then working my way up to more and more senior roles. Interestingly enough, following a re-evaluation of my life in 2016, I decided to take a step back in late 2016 and have moved back into a lower graded role but which gives me full time exposure to the employee relations aspect of HR which has always been a real interest of mine.

    For me, HR in all its forms brings challenges, irritations (my language at times when faced with certain challenges can be choice), fun (you have got to laugh at some of the ever more inventive excuses I have heard from individuals as to why they could not comply with a policy or procedure or instruction).

    I can honestly say I would do it all over again.
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  • Hi Steve
    If I had my time over again, I would decide to go into HR. I started in general secretarial roles and gradually took on office management type roles which led over 25 years ago to a role in HR, starting off as an Advisor and then working my way up to more and more senior roles. Interestingly enough, following a re-evaluation of my life in 2016, I decided to take a step back in late 2016 and have moved back into a lower graded role but which gives me full time exposure to the employee relations aspect of HR which has always been a real interest of mine.

    For me, HR in all its forms brings challenges, irritations (my language at times when faced with certain challenges can be choice), fun (you have got to laugh at some of the ever more inventive excuses I have heard from individuals as to why they could not comply with a policy or procedure or instruction).

    I can honestly say I would do it all over again.
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