Business Admin, HR, Recruitment and Finance - Human Resources Officer
Business Admin, HR, Recruitment and Finance - Human Resources Officer
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Human resources (HR) officers hire, develop and look after employees in a company.
- Help recruit new employees
- Handle complaints and disciplinary procedures
- Give advice on sickness absence, performance and employment relations
- Plan and put into place employee training and development activities
- Make sure employees have the right pay and benefits
- Arrange employee support services like welfare and counselling
- Keep up to date with equality and health and safety laws
- Give advice on pay negotiations, redundancy and employment law
- Develop HR policies, handbooks and procedures
- Maintain confidential employee records
As a Human Resources Officer, you could work in an office, from home or remotely.
Human Resources Officers tend to work between 38 to 40 hours a week. You could work between 8am and 6pm.
Starting: £18,000
Experienced: £40,000
You can get into this job through a university course, a college course, an apprenticeship, working towards this role or specialist courses run by professional bodies.
You could do a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree in any subject. You could then apply for a graduate HR training scheme. You can study Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualifications like:
Level 3 Foundation Certificate in People Practice
Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management
Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management
You may be able to work your way up through the apprenticeship route by starting as an HR assistant on an HR support advanced apprenticeship. From this you could go on to do a higher level apprenticeship to become a human resources officer.