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  • RE: Getting into HR

    Andre
    Andre

    Just keep making applications, even if you need to make 1,000 to get an offer, as you only need one to then break in. Time and pressure is the answer. I have made 81,500 worldwide with the click of the profile button on LiinkedIn over the past four years…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Career transition - where to start!?

    Andre
    Andre
    Like myself, keep making application after application until you find a place that takes you.
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre
    The problem is however that no other profession is suddenly going to take me at 45 with no prior experience or on a graduate entry programme. That is living in the real world.

    I also can’t give up work or risk spending thousands of pounds and several…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre
    What I am basically saying here in a very fine nutshell is that I cannot get a job, and the advice given, although excellent, still hasn't worked in terms of delivering one.
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre
    With the benefit of hindsight, although one can't clearly force a job or an organisation to take them on if they do not wish to, if one constantly struggles and finds it impossible to progress, but their peers don't, it that a possible indicator that…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre
    With the benefit of hindsight, although one can't clearly force a job or an organisation to take them on if they do not wish to, if one constantly struggles and finds it impossible to progress, but their peers don't, it that a possible indicator that…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre

    Realistically and living in the real world now with my head firmly on the ground, its both the best and all that I can get. Joining the profession at a later than average stage and now at 45, even if I have another four decades and can take it into my…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre
    One doesn't also want a too difficult nor a demanding job that they are going to constantly struggle at and go home each evening and weekend with performance management and capability issues on the mind. Perhaps in my case at least it is best to stay…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre

    To add, it is also fair to say that the vast majority of HR Advisor job advertisements look for the successful candidate to already be working as an HR Advisor with several years relevant HR / ER Advisory experience in the person specification which is…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: I shall write again in six months time with an update

    Andre
    Andre

    I have found the reason behind it all in relation to all my previous posts about progression or otherwise in the HR profession.

    In my case, my level of formal education still does not automatically translate into or correlate with being able to perform…

    • over 1 year ago
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