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Human Resources

Advice on becoming a Training Manager

Posted by Simon Thompson on

Training managers are there for the here and now and the future, ensuring staff are fully equipped to do their current job while developing their skills for the longer term.

Designing, developing and running training schemes is at the heart of the job, but there’s budget management and report-writing to be done too. And appraisal work is a large part of the job – delivering training is one thing, but gaining feedback on its effectiveness is equally important.

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HR Officer – Career Advice

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HR Officer – Career Advice

HR officers need to know two things inside out – people and employment law. If you don’t ‘do’ people, you’ll struggle to succeed in HR. And how the law applies to those people is the major area of the job.

Confidentiality is key for officers as they’ll often be counselling employees who have work-related or personal problems (and sometimes both). Overseeing the company’s pay, benefits and health and safety policies is another responsibility, as is recruitment.

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HR Consultant – Career Advice

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HR Consultant – Career Advice

HR consultants usually work for recruitment agencies and their work involves a mix of sales and match-making.

HR consultants will cold call firms looking for new business, maintain good relationships with existing clients, interview and evaluate job seekers, match candidates with vacancies, negotiate fees, keep all recruitment records up to date and meet targets set for new business brought in and vacancies filled.

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HR Administrator – Career Advice

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HR Administrator – Career Advice

HR administrators are the cogs that ensure a company’s HR machine is working smoothly.

They’re the first contact point for employees and other companies and will have a hand in pretty much every area of HR. From working on contracts and HR databases, to helping with job adverts and recruitment agency liaison to organising interviews and making sure all the relevant letters and emails have been sent and phone calls made, HR administrators do the lot.

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Compensation and Benefits Manager

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Compensation and Benefits Manager

Compensation and benefits managers are the people who sort out all the things that tempted employees into the job in the first place – the salaries and bonuses, profit-sharing, company cars, pensions, life assurance and medical insurance.

This is a real people-person job allied to a need for some serious legal and financial knowledge. You’ll be looking after an employee’s best interests, advising management on issues relating to them and their workforce, and easing new people into their job, while ensuring that leavers know exactly what they will receive when they move on.