Barriers to career progression

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For me, HR being lumped in with Payroll. Whilst I can do the basic math's required for HR bits, I'm in no way qualified to run Payroll. I had a catastrophic interview for an HR and recruitment job a few years ago, which turned out to be half Payroll, half HR (not stated even once during recruitment) - I had a 'fun' surprise Excel payroll test at the end of the interview (badly paid job, interview excessive with presentations and rankings of exactly what order to undertake various processes like grievances etc.) - to sum up, I guess people expecting HR to have some innate Payroll knowledge (I'm sure a lot of us do, I definitely don't!)