Graduation Employment and Future Trends in HR

This report discusses graduation employment in the HR field and future trends in HR. It also highlights the key skills, knowledge, and experience expected from graduate employees. The report includes a job advertisement for a Graduate HR Recruitment Administrator.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Graduation Employment..................................................................................................................3
Future trends in Graduation Employment.......................................................................................3
Key skills, knowledge and experience expected from graduate employment.................................5
Job Advertisement...........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
This report will discuss about graduation employment and knowledge, skills and
experience required by a recent graduate to enter in a chosen area of graduate employment.
Recent graduate is one who is recently completed their graduation degree. Future trends for the
graduate employment will also be discussed. Future trends involve what are likely future trends
and demands associated with an area of graduate employment. This report is based on primary
and secondary research and research in area of employment help individuals in effectively
planning for their future.
Graduation Employment
Area of graduate employment selected is HR (Human Resources) and this is a profession
that is responsible for resourcing organisation with efficient and competent employees.
Compensation management and performance management within organisation is also included in
responsibilities of HR within organisation. Area of human resource is responsible for recruiting
and selecting candidate as employee of organisation and along with this management of human
resources in organisation is also responsibility of HR. Management of employees involve
compensation management and performance management of employees. In addition to this
issues related to employees are also solved by HR in organisation (Anwar and Abdullah, 2021).
Collectively, HR in organisation is responsible for carrying out activities for management of
employees in organisation and enabling them to work to best of their potential in organisation.
Future trends in Graduation Employment
Virtual work
This is one of the trend that HR us going to experience in future. This is an important shift in
work model and because of this work has become flexible and worker centric. Acceptance of
virtual working is increasing day by day and this has impact on the working of HR (Shayah and
Sun, 2019). This is because as the model of work changes they also have to change their
practices of HR management.
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Increasing digitalization in organisation- This is another trend in this area of graduation
employment. Digitalization in every organisation is increasing and this has considerable impact
on practice of human resource management in organisation. Digitalization has changed practices
of HR as well as requirement of employees in organisation and practices associated with this
changing requirement. For example digitalization has impact on recruitment practices of HR.
Use of online recruitment are increasing and this enhances overall recruitment process.
Increasing role of team- Organisational structure is becoming flat and this is the reason that
teams have become essential in organisation. In this role of HR is also likely to get affected
because they need to change practices and make them suitable for a team environment and
culture (Chalutz Ben-Gal, 2020). HR in an organisation needs to create a culture that celebrates
growth and adaptability and resilience which are very important for effective team working.
Strategic focus of HR- This is one of the important trend in this area of graduate employment in
which HR will be increased focus on strategic design. This involved linking HR practices with
organisational Strategies andshaping design of organisation to meet future requirements. Along
with this job roles in organisation also required to be new and re-shaped according to demand of
automation in organisation. Identification of new capabilities requirement is also involved in
strategic focus of HR.
Continuous learning- Focus on continuous learning of employees is increasing and this effect
this area of graduation employment. This is because due to increasing complexities of work and
frequently changing requirements of work employees need to be prepared for future. This
requires that HR in organisation development environment where employees can learn
continuously and develop themselves for future challenges.
Promoting diversity and inclusion- This is also one of the trends in this area of graduation
employment in which HR in organisation are required to promote diversity and inclusion. This
reason of this is that increasing challenges and complexities of work can be facilitated by having
diversified employees and their inclusion in organisation (Liu and et.al., 2020). This is
responsibility of HR that diversified workforce is there and their inclusion is also there in
organisation.
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Key skills, knowledge and experience expected from graduate employment
Communication skills- This is one of the very important skill required for HR in which HR
professionals are expected to have effective communication skills. They need to have effective
oral as well as written communication skills. HR professionals are link between organisation and
employees and also a means of negotiation between organisation and employees, this is the
reason that they need to have effective communication skills.
Team working and collaboration- This is another very important skill expected from HR in
which they need to be skilled in team working and collaboration (Silva and Soares, 2018). In this
role of HR is to find collaborative team members and those who can successfully contribute in
mission and vision of team. This is very important that to find collaborative team-members HR
professionals firstly have team working skills and collaborative skills.
Intercultural and language skills- This is a very important skills that candidates in HR area
needs to have because diversity in organisations are increasing. Increasing diversity involves that
employees in organisation are from multiple cultures and this is why HR needs to have
intercultural sensitivity and language skills. This enables them to develop favourable and
positive relations with employees. Intercultural sensitivity enables HR to motivate and encourage
employees of different cultures and improves efficiency of HR practices.
Analytically driven and oriented- This is also one of the very important skills related to HR
area of graduation employment. Increasing use of data and analytics in decision-making in all
areas including HR required that candidates applying for role of HR have strong orientation of
analytics and they are equipped with knowledge of analytical tools and data analytics.
HRM knowledge and expertise- This is a very important element of HR profession and is
expected from graduate employees. This involves knowledge regarding different practices of
HRM and how they are carried out (Costa and et.al., 2019). In addition to this, practices of HRM
and their detailed knowledge is also expected from candidates. This involves knowledge of
recruitment process ad practices, practices and process of selection, performance management,
and payroll management and knowledge of all other activities carried out by HR.
HRIS knowledge- This is concerned with knowledge of Human Resource Information System
and many organisations are employing HRIS for HRM, knowledge of this system is very
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important for employability of individuals. HRIS is a system that is used for collecting and
storing data of employees and this facilitate information management related to employees.
HR Reporting- This is also important in relation with knowledge associated with HR
professional (Demir, 2019). It is important that graduate employees have knowledge of HR
reporting and this involves tracking key metrics about workforce and measuring information
related to employees within organisation.
Recent graduate in area of HR does not require much experience because they might have
not worked earlier. However, experience of work can add value in their employability in HR.
Job Advertisement
The job advertisement included in Appendix is given by Esland Care and is for Graduate
HR Recruitment Administrator. This job is a full time job and candidate will be required to
report to recruitment manager and work in supportive recruitment/HR team. Duties and
responsibilities involve responsibility for pre-employment checks for pipeline candidates,
ensuring recruitment tracker is kept up to date at all times, completion of DBS and risk
assessment, offering offer pack and contracts to new starters, supporting with telephone
screening, liasing with payroll to process, issuing probation latter, completion of weekly KPI and
several other responsibilities are included in this job. Requirement for candidate includes
excellent organisational skills, and ability to manage high volume of work quickly, attention to
detail, team player with enthusiastic and supportive approach and ability to use initiative and
work proactively. This job advertisement suggests that organisation not only provide excellent
opportunity to graduate seekers and at the same it also provide very good opportunity for
development and growth of employee.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it can be summarised that trends in this area of graduate
employee are frequently changing and have impact of different environmental factors. Skills,
knowledge and experience required for HR involves that they are required to have skills and
different types of knowledge because of their key role in organisation. Having these skills and
knowledge can enhance employability of a recent graduate in area of HR. Later a job
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advertisement for a recent graduate was also discussed and different responsibilities associated
with job and requirements of candidate was also discussed in report.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anwar, G. and Abdullah, N.N., 2021. The impact of Human resource management practice on
Organizational performance. International journal of Engineering, Business and
Management (IJEBM). 5.
Chalutz Ben-Gal, H., 2020. Human Resources based Organizational Data Mining (HRODM):
Themes, Trends, Focus, Future. Future.
Costa, V and et.al., 2019, November. Profile of Human Resources and Skills Needs in the
Portuguese Tourism Sector. In Proceedings of the European Conference on
Management, Leadership & Governance (pp. 108-116).
Demir, O., 2019. Digital skills, organizational behavior and transformation of human resources:
a review. Ecoforum Journal. 8(1).
Liu, G and et.al., 2020. The development of health technology assessment in Asia: current status
and future trends. Value in health regional issues. 21. pp.39-44.
Shayah, M.H. and Sun, Z., 2019, January. Employment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Countries–Current Issues and Future Trends. In 2nd International Conference on Social
Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018) (pp. 412-415). Atlantis Press.
Silva, A.M.R.A. and Soares, C.A.P., 2018. Competencies and skills of site managers from the
point of view of human resources professionals and site managers. Business
Management Dynamics. 7(9). p.1.
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APPENDIX
Goal: To gain detailed information about HR profession including skills, knowledge and role of
HR in organisation
Source of Information Objective Results
Event by career team To understand scope and
importance of HR profession
Enabled to understand
importance and role of Hr in
organisation
Personal contact To understand required
knowledge and skills for Hr
profession
Gained detailed information
about knowledge and skills for
HR profession
Personal contact To understand trends for HR
profession
Detailed understanding of trends
in HR and impact on graduate
employees
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Job Advertisement
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