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I've just gained my very first HR Advisor role! Any advice?

James Webber

Hi all,

As the title suggests, today I was very, very happy to acquire my first HR Advisory role after a number of years of trying to progress! 

I'll be working in a team that solely deals with sickness advisory support/case work. I should also state that I've never worked within this organisation before so I'm sure that I'll be able to get some tips and tricks internally when I start in a few weeks time.

However, before that I wanted to try and get some feedback about how you all coped with your step up to the Advisory level?
Was there anything that you wish you'd known then that you do now?
Do you have any tips that you think could make the transitional process easier for me or potholes that I should look to avoid?

Your advice doesn't have to directly related to sickness management, I'm sure that I can make any advice you give, relating to case work/advisor work, applicable to my new role.

P.s. But please don't give me all your horror stories all at once! ;)

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  • Congratulations James! I'd suggest you try to fit in some of the CIPD free webinars both prior to starting, and during your new job. The topics covered are designed to be highly topical and relavant to the current HR 'landscape.' So they'll be relevant to the issues your line manager colleagues are dealing with too. They're great because you get to feel part of the wider intl HR community (much like on these discussion boards!) and you'll get a shared understanding of how people are dealing with the key issues of the day! It will make you sound quite well informed too ;) www.cipd.co.uk/.../webinars I'm a little biased as I work for the CIPD but I think they are great!
  • in reply to Johanna
    Thank you for the kind words and the suggestion to join the free webinars (there's nothing wrong with a bit of self promotion, you can literally take this post of mine as an example of that :) )

    I've just had a look and it seems I can retrospectively stream all the recent webinars. This is especially useful because the titles of historic webinars look especially pertinent to the type of work I expect to be dealing with:

    * COVID-19 vaccine and the workplace
    * Embedding flexible working for all
    * Stepping up and supporting working parents
    * In it for the long haul: supporting employee health and wellbeing

    Many thanks for your help, I'm sure it will be very useful...... and make me sound well informed ;)
  • in reply to James Webber
    Yes they are all available for free, retrospectively, so form a great archive of info. They're an easy listen if you put one on while you're working on something else I find! Keep us posted on your new role once you get into it.
  • in reply to Johanna
    I certainly will..... but only the successful parts ;)
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