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Why work in the people profession?

Steve Bridger

What motivated you to work in the HR profession?

Was it working with people? Opportunities to progress? Flexibility? No two days are the same... and so on.

It would be great to get some real life perspectives from community members.

We've looked at variations on this theme before, e.g. 

www.cipd.co.uk/.../best-achievement-in-hr-best-thing-you-have-implemented

www.cipd.co.uk/.../working-in-hr-if-you-could-start-again-would-you

...but not quite the question I'm asking now.

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  • Like most people said in the thread about if you could start again in HR would you, I sort of fell into HR.

    I started in a hr admin role with no hr experience at all, but I like to think I was a pretty good admin person, so started from there. Found that I was beginning to find certain aspects of hr interesting and gradually my admin role started to develop and eventually I was almost working at advisor level and found myself wanting to study for my Level 5 which luckily my employer at the time was prepared to fund. 5 years (ish) later and I'm in a standalone role responsible for pretty much all aspects of hr (eek!).

    For me I like that my days are rarely the same and that where I am now is a supportive environment and I have opportunities to learn and develop my knowledge - in fact it's encouraged.

    I sometimes jokingly say to friends that I've already worked with children and animals so people was the next logical step (although there are some days when I think that I should have stuck with animals...they don't talk back!) :-)
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  • Like most people said in the thread about if you could start again in HR would you, I sort of fell into HR.

    I started in a hr admin role with no hr experience at all, but I like to think I was a pretty good admin person, so started from there. Found that I was beginning to find certain aspects of hr interesting and gradually my admin role started to develop and eventually I was almost working at advisor level and found myself wanting to study for my Level 5 which luckily my employer at the time was prepared to fund. 5 years (ish) later and I'm in a standalone role responsible for pretty much all aspects of hr (eek!).

    For me I like that my days are rarely the same and that where I am now is a supportive environment and I have opportunities to learn and develop my knowledge - in fact it's encouraged.

    I sometimes jokingly say to friends that I've already worked with children and animals so people was the next logical step (although there are some days when I think that I should have stuck with animals...they don't talk back!) :-)
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