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Starting from scratch after being made redundant

Rachel

Hi Everyone

At the beginning of September I, and everyone else in the business, was made redundant due to the company going into administration. The problem I have is I don't feel like I've got enough experience to apply for any HR jobs anywhere else. I have my CIPD Level 3 and was labelled as HR at the company but it was an SME with only 13 employees so my job was mostly other admin tasks and general employee HR when needed, along with creating/updating policies and procedures. Even though I was there for 5 and a half years I don't feel like it gave me enough experience to actually get a foot in the door in HR anywhere else. I just wondered if anyone had any advice for basically starting from scratch?

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  • Hi Rachel, very sorry to learn about the redundancies and wishing you well with finding your next role. I do get how hard it is to see how much experience you have gained and what it actually looks like. It strikes me you have quite a strong starting point given 5.5 years' experience plus your qualification. There have been many threads on this forum from job hunters without any HR or relevant experience so your situation looks more positive to me. A couple of suggestions: it's worth taking a look at the CIPD career guidance pages, link as follows: www.cipd.org/.../
    Also, contact your local CIPD branch to see if they offer any support with job hunting or perhaps consider a mentor to support you with your next career move, your local branch could also help, link as follows: www.cipd.org/.../
    Good luck and please let us know how you get on. :-)
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  • Hi Rachel, very sorry to learn about the redundancies and wishing you well with finding your next role. I do get how hard it is to see how much experience you have gained and what it actually looks like. It strikes me you have quite a strong starting point given 5.5 years' experience plus your qualification. There have been many threads on this forum from job hunters without any HR or relevant experience so your situation looks more positive to me. A couple of suggestions: it's worth taking a look at the CIPD career guidance pages, link as follows: www.cipd.org/.../
    Also, contact your local CIPD branch to see if they offer any support with job hunting or perhaps consider a mentor to support you with your next career move, your local branch could also help, link as follows: www.cipd.org/.../
    Good luck and please let us know how you get on. :-)
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