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Developing a Career in HR

 
 
HR career paths are often diverse, complex and exciting. Many organisations are creating different kinds of relationships between their HR professinoals and their wider business.
Finding work in HR and development

Upgrade your CIPD membership

Our memebrship and qualifications will give you professional recognition and credibility, showing employers you have the knowledge and skills to add real value to your organisation.

Setting up a business

Becoming a self-employed HR consultant

Self-employment can be a viable and exciting career option. Help and advice on starting out alone including thinking about how well suited you are to a life outside of the coporate environment.

Case Studies

Case studies

Successful HR professionals talk about the routes that their career took them, how being a CIPD member helped and their top tips for your own career.

 
 
 
 
 

Finding work in HR and development

The CIPD’s free to members magazine, People Management, comes out every two weeks and contains a number of job adverts, which are aimed at people looking for management roles. You can browse and seach for HR jobs online:

Your local library may have a copy, also they will have copies of other journals, newspapers and magazines that may have more junior roles.