Self Reflection on Existing Skills and Knowledge as an HR Practitioner

HR
(Assessment 2)

INTRODUCTION
HR practitioners are the persons that are learning and developing themselves as an HR
professionals by practising the different activities of the HR roles. For an HR practitioner there
is requirement of different skills, knowledge, behaviour that make a person a effective HR
professional (Tosey and Marshall, 2017). In order to improve the skills and knowledge, as per
the changing business environment the HR practising must self reflect Its skills using CIPD
mapping. The report will cover the reflection on existing skills and knowledge as an HR
practitioner and assessed the skills and knowledge as per the CIPD map. The report also contains
the skill audit and PDP.
Main Body
The HR practitioner is the key role of managing the activities related to the human
resource of the organisation. As an HR practitioner I have realized that in order to operate the
activities of an HR effectively their is the key requirement of some effective knowledge, skills
and attributes that helps an HR practitioner to act professionally and ethically. There is the CIPD
map that will help me in analysing my existing coherent skills, knowledge and attributes as an
HR professional. The CIPD map reflects the evolving role of HR practitioner and professional in
the upcoming years (Harrison and et. al., 2021). The range of CIPD professional Map incur some
international standards for the HR professionals that will useful in defining the exemplary
standards of human resources, develop capabilities and analyse the areas of the improvement and
success. As per the new CIPD professional mapping the HR professionals must focus on value
based decision making rather generic best practices. As per the three range of the CIPD map that
is core knowledge, core behaviour and specialist knowledge my existing skills, knowledge and
attributes as an HR practitioner are discussed below:
Weeks What did I
learn
Skills and knowledge Reflection on
skills and
knowledge
Development of skills
and knowledge
Week
1
Digital skills As an HR practitioner
I have key skills of
digital working as I
have core knowledge
During the
different topics I
have analysed that
I contain digital
I am able to operate the
digital HRM software's
and other digital data
recording of the
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of the technical areas
of the human resource
management.
working skills to
great extent.
employees as per my
own capability and
knowledge. This exiting
skills is highly useful to
me in meeting the needs
of current digital area
(Greasley and Thomas,
2020) .
Week
2
Assessment
skills
As an HR
practitioners I
currently posses the
skill of assessing the
capabilities and
knowledge of the
employees of the
organisation
This is useful to
me in analysing
their skills gaps
and also to build
their skill audit for
the future
improvement.
Currently I am able to
analyse the current and
future capability needs
of the other other
employees as an HR
practitioner.
Week
3
Team working
skills
As an HR practitioner
currently as per my
self analysis I have
team working skills as
I am able to perform
as team member and
also has a skill of
working effectively
with the team.
I have a skill of
developing the
team developing
team relationship
for the conflict
free team working.
Also I have skills
as team work to
enhance the
performance of
each member of
the teams.
There is need for
developing these skills
so that I am able to
improve team synergy
while in a group setting.
Week
4
Legal
Knowledge
As an HR practitioner
currently I have a
I have knowledge
of the policies,
There is need for
development in this
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