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Career change to a HR role

Emily Miller

Hello!

I am looking to make a career change into a HR role and would love to ask some advice?

I have a retail background (currently a supervisor in luxury sales), so although I do not have any direct experience, I do fulfil perform team leader and performance assesment activities within my team. I have been in this industry for three years and have recognised that the aspects of my job I find the most fulfilling are the 'people' parts. This has lead me to pursue this change. As I am currently lacking in HR experience I am self funding my level 3 diploma in HR, which I am working through in my own time.

I wondered if anyone could offer any advice to a new starter on how to make the transition into the profession? From my own research a lot of roles, even the entry level admin assistant positions are asking for previous experience ( which I sadly lack).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, 

Many thanks,

Emily

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  • Hi Emily,

    All the replies already provided are great.

    After I graduated from university I found it pretty hard to find my first HR role as well, so I applied for unpaid internships whilst I was completing my self-funded Level 3 Certification. I believe completing a 3-month internship (essentially volunteering) strongly helped me secure my first paid HR role.

    What I learned from this is to create opportunities to gain experience in HR whatever it takes- whether in your current organisation, whether in your old University's HR department, whether through contacting people in your network and asking whether you can shadow or support them for a few weeks (especially i they're going through busy periods)- anything that you can then put on your CV to demonstrate your ability to work in HR.

    Also, if you have the flexibility (or ask for the flexibility) to expand the scope of your current role and create new things that are HR-related this will also be good for your CV and for discussing in interviews.

    All the best,

    Rachel
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  • Hi Emily,

    All the replies already provided are great.

    After I graduated from university I found it pretty hard to find my first HR role as well, so I applied for unpaid internships whilst I was completing my self-funded Level 3 Certification. I believe completing a 3-month internship (essentially volunteering) strongly helped me secure my first paid HR role.

    What I learned from this is to create opportunities to gain experience in HR whatever it takes- whether in your current organisation, whether in your old University's HR department, whether through contacting people in your network and asking whether you can shadow or support them for a few weeks (especially i they're going through busy periods)- anything that you can then put on your CV to demonstrate your ability to work in HR.

    Also, if you have the flexibility (or ask for the flexibility) to expand the scope of your current role and create new things that are HR-related this will also be good for your CV and for discussing in interviews.

    All the best,

    Rachel
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