Is a Career in Human Resource Management Right for You?

Human Resource management is becoming more and more popular as a career choice and many universities now offer degrees in human resource management. East Sussex is renowned for its high calibre of universities and colleges and provides the perfect place to embark on a career in human resources. But first, is human resource management the right career for you?

What is Human Resource Management?

Human resource training (HR) involves the strategic management of a workforce, ensuring that employees are capable and content enough to carry out their jobs. Alongside this, HR personnel manage employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal, and manage pay and benefit systems. In a nutshell, HR staff maximise employee performance so the business can run smoothly.

What Skills do I need for Human Resources Courses?

In order to work in HR you need to be a certain type of person. You must be a ‘people person’ and work very well in a team. In HR you are working primarily with people, so you’ll need to be confident, communicative and cooperative.

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Are there any Negatives?

Human resource management can be tough. Many people want to work in HR because they are good with people but in order to succeed in HR you need to be thick skinned. If you have to organise a disciplinary or redundancy, you need to be professional and not let it affect you.

What Courses are Available?

Many HR job roles don’t require qualifications but it always helps to have a degree, diploma or similar courses to get you through the door.

Degree in Human Resource Management

A degree in HR is the most prestigious qualification and covers a lot of theoretical aspects of the sector.

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

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CIPD is an internationally recognised qualification that can be undertaken whilst you work. The course comes in three levels, dependent upon where you are in your career, Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced, so you can constantly improve in your job.

Where Can I Study?

Whichever part of the UK you live in, you’ll find courses in human resource management, East Sussex, in particular, has plenty. Shop around first and make sure that the course you choose is perfect for you.

http://www.reed.co.uk/courses/hr-training

http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/courses/businessandlaw/postgraduate/human-resource-management/

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3 Types of Human Resources Courses in East Sussex

One of the most important resources in a company are the staff. When they're happy, they work to the best of their ability and the business will run smoothly. In addition to this, a high staff turnover can be incredibly costly to the business, so it pays to keep employees for as long as possible. High quality staff training, effective communication and good human resource departments can all save businesses thousands of pounds. 

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So training courses provided by human resources professional can be invaluable to a business.  The courses available include subjects such as recruitment techniques, employment law issues in East Sussex, and how to handle employment tribunals.  Here we’ve compiled the three main types of human resources courses that care on offer:

In-House Human Resources Courses East Sussex

In-house training programmes are the most effective as they are specific to your organisations requirements. The course content, materials and teachers are outsourced but the sessions are delivered on site and can be tailored to suit a business’ own particular needs and objectives.

In-house training is a flexible, efficient, cost and time effective way to get the best possible return on your training and development investment. Not only do the staff save the cost and time of travelling to courses off site, they get to work, learn and communicate as a team, which is one of the primary goals of human resources courses.

Public HR Courses

Public HR courses are open to anyone who wishes to take part and are run in various venues around East Sussex.

The courses are beneficial as students get to work with a varied range of people, reflecting the mix you find in the workplace. As anyone can join an open human resources course, not just specific company employees, its also good for job-seekers to attend as it allows them to learn good job skills and improve the caliber of their CV.

Distance Learning HR Courses

These courses are the most flexible as students choose when and how they study, often completing the coursework after hours or on weekends so the course does not interrupt their job. Distance learning is good for absorbing information because the student concentrates on the subject at hand and doesn’t have the distraction of other group members, but that is also the weakness of this type of learning.  Human resources is all about working with people and dealing with them in appropriate ways. Distance learning misses the social and communication aspect of human resources and is therefore not as effective as in-house or public training.

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Keeping the Human in Human Resources

In our jargon filled and target driven working lives there is a real danger of becoming totally task orientated.  When we’re at work we talk about how busy we are and everything we have on the go, we work overtime (too often unpaid) to get through the in-tray and In-box, and when we go home we will often still have work on our minds.  And it’s not just you.  The majority of people around you are probably just the same. 

It’s the nature of a cut-throat environment, especially in the depths of a recession, that everyone’s first instinct at work is just to survive.  Keep the business afloat, avoid being a victim at the next round of redundancies, and keep below the bosses radar by keeping your head down.

The trouble with this approach is it’s actually counter-productive.  A task driven focus tends to ignore the crucial fact that it’s people who make a business succeed or fail.  Not charts, not targets, not a Victorian mill owners hire and fire attitude and fiery work ethic, not the latest IT system or US originated jargon-riddled management “system” – but humans.

Don’t’ get me wrong.  All of the above features have their place, and any organisation trying to operate without good systems is a disaster waiting to happen, but my point is that the system should never be the prime focus.  The system, whether it’s the IT or the paperwork flow, or the way orders are processed in the warehouse, is there to help the people do the work in the best way they possibly can.  And a good system will help them to interact with their colleagues smoothly and efficiently, and for managers to treat each other and their staff in a way that keeps people content and productive.

Human Resources Management - The Basics

This is the art of Human Resources, and Human Resource Management - keeping the balance between the fact that everyone in an organisation is both Human and a Resource.  The business or organisation needs people to perform to succeed, but it must also create an environment that makes people want to do that.  To make sure they feel valued and appreciated for what they do, from the cleaner all the way up to the MD.  That way they want to come to work, they want to do a good job, and they’re happy to go the extra mile to keep themselves and their colleagues gainfully employed.

Far too often we hear about mangers in areas such as Sussex who exploit a difficult employment market to act like something from the 19^th Century.  Most of us at some time or another have worked for the kind of boss who, when asked what bonus they might get at Xmas, tells his staff “You’ll still have a job in the New Year”.  The irony is most of the people hearing this would really rather not be there in the New Year.  They’re not motivated and usually only do as little as they can get away with.  The smart manager is the one who creates an atmosphere that keeps people keen willing to support each other and the business.

Here's a good idea to keep with my theme......

http://www.hrzone.com/blogs/strategic-employee-recognition-derek-irvine/appreciating-favorite-co-worker/144497

and some places to get sound advice....

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