Job Responsibilities
My responsibilities cover a varity of areas such as:
Compensation: Managing bonus or remuneration packages for senior
employees, tracking development progress along with evaluating
job roles for benchmarking purposes.
Programme development: Developing programmes designed at
enhancing the value add that the Regional office provides the
country operations and also to enhance the level of value add
that the country level HR Managers provide to their relevant
country managers. These programmes are also designed to ensure a
standard level of operational effectiveness through process and
procedures for all countries.
Hr Support: responsibility for operational (day to day) HR
support for regional employees (EMEA responsibilities/focus)
based in the UK - these range form Sales, Marketing, IT,
Logistics, Finance and so on. The day to day operational support
can also vary from recruitment to disciplinary management to
redundancy - so form this aspect I carry out the same operational
role as a country level HR manager but the client group is
dissapated across the EMEA region (19 countries across Europe,
middel east and Africa - including South Africa)
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Job Requirements
Education requirements:
Degree Level
Masters degree
Professional Qualifications (CIPD)
+ 5 years in HR role
Alternatively
Degree Level
Professional qualifications and 7 years in HR Role (CIPD)
All within a US organisation with a natrix structure.
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Uppers
Involved in change - I can influence decisions at a senior level
Relationships - develop relationships at a senior and junior level
Ability to have involvement in every area of an organisation - my function is
one that can be involved in the smallest decision to the biggest decision
because
every decision will inevitably involve people - and people is what I do.
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Downers
Admin - admin - admin - did I say Admin - HR is a process driven
function which creates paperwork and add peopel to the mix and it
can get complicated - as a downer its not so bad as it is also
exciting.
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Lifestyle
Advice to new comers:
Don't do it!!!! - joking aside its an interesting career choice
but you need to be committed to developing organisations and
people. HR is a long term committment for many organisations so
why shoudl it not be for individuals - if you get on with people
and can see between the lines - can see the wood for the trees
then this may be for you.
Job outlook - HR like IT has grown very fast so the trend woudl
be for the number of roles ot reduce - but as with everything -
as businesses grown so do their workforce and as such so will HR
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Compensation
Base: ??45-??55K = $70K+
Bonus = 10%
Car Allowance = ??5K per annum
Benefits: Health Care, Pension, Life insurance, 25 days holiday
per annum (+9 national holidays = total 34 days)
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Advice to Jobseekers
Advice to new comers:
Don't do it!!!! - joking aside its an interesting career choice
but you need to be committed to developing organisations and
people. HR is a long term committment for many organisations so
why shoudl it not be for individuals - if you get on with people
and can see between the lines - can see the wood for the trees
then this may be for you.
Job outlook - HR like IT has grown very fast so the trend woudl
be for the number of roles ot reduce - but as with everything -
as businesses grown so do their workforce and as such so will HR
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