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Part time HR

Nicola

Good morning,

I hope you’re all well.

I feel the need to express my frustration with the lack of stimulating part time HR roles on offer. 

Considering the fact our profession promotes the importance of offering flexible work patterns, there are very few part time HR positions around. Perhaps this is only a regional issue, but for the last few years I have seen very few HR roles on job boards.

It seems it’s full time or put up with a mixed role - finance/hr/payroll/general admin. I don’t want to wish my children’s lives away just so I can return full time. I don’t see why that should be the only option. 

Perhaps this is just an issue where I live. Maybe I’m looking on the wrong websites. I’m close to completing my level 5 Diploma and have starting to question my choice of career.

Anyone else feel this way? Any words of wisdom? Struggling to find the motivation to complete the course.

Thanks. 

Kind regards,

Nicola

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  • Hi Nicola
    As an HR professional who has been practising for over 30 years, I can fully appreciate where you are coming from.
    When my children were small I too struggled to find good part time roles, they are out there, but hard to find! I would say I stayed at the same level for quite a few years and compromised as I wanted to work part-time. Saying all of that, I did stay in employment.
    I am now at the other end of my career (?) and again want to work part-time mainly for my work life balance, and am also finding this a problem, the age probably doesn't help either.
    I would say that generally the charity and not for profit sector are usually quite open to flexible working and part time options, as it also saves them money on their (often limited) staffing budgets.
    The websites I have found useful for part time roles are the following:-
    www.timewisejobs.co.uk/.../
    https://www.923jobs.com/
    https://capabilityjane.com/
    I also had the benefit of meeting a colleague (and friend) and we presented ourselves as a job share which worked really well for us for a number of years.
    Very best of luck, I am sure you will find something.
  • in reply to Fiona Mary Palmer
    In my experience it is very difficult to get a part time HR job from the outside unless he employer is looking to save money
    Part of that is that agencies are not very interested because they only get half the fee.
    Much easier to go part time if you have the job in the first place
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