Employability Skills Assessment for Human Resource Management

This report provides an employability skills assessment for Human Resource Management (HRM). It covers the transferrable skills, personal qualities, and attributes needed for success in HRM. It also discusses the sector of personal aptitude and employment opportunities in the field. The report provides insights into the job of HRM and its strategic approach for effective management of organization workers.

Employability Skills Assessment Brief 3
Report

Contents
Job of Interest..................................................................................................................................1
Transferrable skills for success........................................................................................................1
Important personal qualities and attributes needed.................................................................2
Sector of personal aptitude..............................................................................................................3
Employment opportunities over the next few years........................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................4

Job of Interest
The job chosen is Human Resource Management which is one of the strategic
approach for handling the effective management of organization workers so that they
can work on gaining business with competitive advantage. The designing is done to
maximize the performance of employees who are in service of an employer’s strategic
objectives.
Transferrable skills for success
For handling the job of HRM, there is a need to focus on how the organization is able to
manage with the skills and work in HR that is organized properly. The strong
management of time and becoming efficient at work is a major point for success. The
negotiations are considered to the secondary important skills for the HR professionals
who need to focus on the ability to negotiate. There are negotiation roles which offers
the extended employment where the strong HR professionals will be able to work on the
agreements that can easily be reached for making people happy. The problem solving,
and the conflict management is a combination where the employees need to ensure
about the ability to work together in a proper manner on-time and with a higher quality.
The communication is a major single workplace that is considered as an important
skillset for the HR professionals (Albrecht, Bakker, Gruman, Macey & Saks, 2015). The
multitasking is also important for the HR managers to work successfully. Here, there are
issues, questions and the requests which are based on the daily basis and relates to
others for different issues.
With the proper management, there comes HR management key skills for the discrete
and ethical standards where the keepers are of confidential information. One needs to
monitor the actions for the employees to be sure about different policies and the
regulations which need to be followed. The dual focus highlight on the expectations to
advocate the concerns and then enforce the top management policies effectively. The
decisions are made to protect the individuals and then protect the organization, culture
and values as well (Judge & Zapata, 2015). The decisions might be misunderstood with
certain conflict management and problem-solving conditions. Hence, for staying in a job,
a higher productivity is demanded where the people can work together civilly. HR has to

also find the different ways to work with the change management techniques and the
hierarchies need to be set where the people are able to cope up with the consistent
changes.
Important personal qualities and attributes needed
a. Empathy is considered as the intellectual and the emotional identification which
includes the discussion about the thoughts, attitude and the feelings of the
people.
b. The intuitive nature includes personalities with perceiving the truth or the fact
through perceptions on reasoning processes (Garcia, 2016).
c. Cooperativeness with competitiveness, helps the individuals to work on the goals
and the team values which can be advanced properly.
d. The emotional intelligence is to understand and describe the traits or the
behaviors for the human resource executives. The capacity results from the
development to make use of emotional intelligence which also involves the ability
to properly perceive, understand and then manage the feelings or emotions.
It is important for the HR executives to work on handling the aforementioned traits which
could be transcended to adapt a strategic and business minded attitude for the thoughts
and behaviors of human resource managers. There is a need to likely possess the
qualities and the characteristics with good communication skills and analytical ability or
leadership (Halder, Roy & Chakraborty, 2017). It is important for the HR professionals to
properly focus on identifying the employment with hiring traits. This also includes the
strong management of the time and completion of tasks. There is a possibility to
balance the variety of tasks which includes the dealing with personal issues and then
creating recruitment strategies as well. The ethical and behavioral standards are mainly
important to be followed with the consideration to meet the oral and written
communication skills. The business need to function at their best where HR department
also ensures about the different personalities and how they can work properly towards
accomplishment of the goals in company (Liu, Gong, Zhou & Huang, 2017).
In different situations, the employees generally look for the HR professions to handle
the answers and leadership. There are variety of company problems which can only be

controlled if the functioning is done in a smooth manner. It becomes important for the
manager to gear up the duties towards the different aspects of employment. It can
include the allocation of resources and then planning about the department of projects.
The small business environment needs to handle the allocation of resources and plan
the different benefits, hiring and termination along with handling different issues of
employees.
There are certain interpersonal skills which needs to be handled with HR manager
focusing on interacting with different people on a daily basis. There are perspectives of
the employees who work on attending the budgeting meetings and then addressing
concerns from employees and the management (Guan, Yang, Zhou, Tian & Eves,
2016). There are healthcare and insurance benefits which is related to the questions
that needs to be addressed properly. The objectivity and tact includes crucial aspects
with displaying objectivity and addressing the conflicts among the employees, with
conducting performance appraisals as well. The processes need to handle the
approaches and the compassionate feeling to work on employee retention and
productivity. For a good leadership, there are good leaders who can inspire the
employees. For this, they need to hold a command which could help in aligning them
with the requirements of the employees as well.
Sector of personal aptitude
The sector of personal aptitude includes the managers in HR, recruitment, training and
OH&S. The people need to offer a wider range of tests which are matching and are also
applicable for the different tests in HR. Hence, for this, the personal aptitude needs to
work on the personality traits with measuring the broader personality factors. The tests
are based on measuring the behavioral styles that impact the performances in a
workplace. The tests help in measuring the attitude with the ability to work with the
different stakeholders and handle the task management style (Fang et al., 2015). The
employers are then able to assess the extent for the personality characteristics where
the project management includes the management of resources that is for the staffing,
prioritizing the tasks and then managing the risks. The personality tests comes with the
numerical reasoning with focusing on how one is able to get the encounter for the

graphs and tables. The employers are likely to work on numerical reasoning skills which
are for ensuring a higher performance in the role. The applicants of recruitments, HR
and OH&S is expected to demonstrate about the ability to identify the work-related
issues. This helps in moderating the capacity to properly monitor the performance and
profession with use of metrics and the performance indicators. There is a need to
understand the assessments which are used internally and externally for gauging the
candidates or employees. There is a need to focus on testing, profiling and
assessments that are for individuals and teams to handle the selection and
development like self-awareness, understanding and proper communication with the
team. The facilitation of the career guidance like the interests and value inventories
provide information which could be used for coaching and helping the people to
understand the needs for further improvement. The recruitment and selection processes
are to match the development of future talent and leadership potential effectively, with
role-based profiling and screening.
Employment opportunities over the next few years
The employment opportunities includes the different features like the satisfaction of job,
better career potential and the freedom. It is important for the human resource manager
to work on the different person-to-person interaction that will help the people to
communicate and coordinate directly for different HR activities. The benefit programs,
training and other labor disputes are important to be held for the workers (Bolino &
Grant, 2016).
There is another career of the non-profit human resource expert which highlights about
how the recruiter is able to handle the operations in a non-profit field. The HR
professionals need to work on the for-profit roles like the recruitments, and then
administering the benefits, training and development. The companies are growing with
human resource consultant who working on the high hourly rate to impart the services.
The high-level individual assesses the international Human Resource Professional with
wider variety of people focusing on different customs. The training and the development
manager help the employees to improve the skill sets and careers. They do this by
training in a specially held classes, with keeping the training sessions completely

entertaining. The employee education consultants need to work on the training and
properly handling the development managers with the aim at increasing the skill set of
employees and their knowledge as well.
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