Career Viewpoint: Skills and Strategies for Success in Human Resource Management

This report explores the skills and strategies necessary for a successful career in human resource management. It discusses personal analysis, career action plans, and the importance of communication and networking skills. The report emphasizes the need for improving decision-making, communication, and presentation skills to excel in the field. It also provides guidance on setting short-term and long-term goals for professional growth.

Career viewpoint
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal analysis....................................................................................................................3
Career action plan...................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Career refers to the professional capacity that is chosen by an individual to pursue in the
future. This choice of career is based upon different capabilities and abilities. This report is
prepared with the purpose of evaluating skills and knowledge required for taking on the career
choice of Human resource manager (Akhtari, Sowlati and Griess, 2020). Human resource
manager is an individual in an organization who is responsible for managing employees and
workers of firm. Major responsibilities of this position is to hire, select, employ and also
maintain relations with employees of the company. This report is basically concentrating on the
discussion of personal evaluation through own SWOT analysis and also through skill audit.
Apart from this, career action plan will be illustrated by focussing on personal development and
achieve stipulated targets.
MAIN BODY
Personal analysis
For building career in the department of human resource management, it is important for
an individual to possess some skills and capabilities which can be used to fulfil their roles in an
efficient manner. There are some traits those are necessarily be possessed by an aspirant of
human resource career. These capabilities will help that person to gain knowledge related with
this field, such as, theories and models of this department. To carry out this whole process, most
important step is the self evaluation program. This evaluation process will help a person to
develop further his skill set. In case of HR professional, there is a wide range of list those include
capabilities, skills and knowledge set needed to make the profile even more attractive. These
skills are related with covering up all standards needed for improving profitability level in firm.
Various skills needed for getting success in HR profession are listed below:
 Communication skills: major objective of any Human resource manager is to interact
with employees so that to make them aware of different policies and strategies
formulated at management level (Baillie, 2017). This will make the operations smoother
and also will help the employee to work with more efficiency. This will help an
individual to gather more information and also to formulate better strategies, in addition
to this, employee retention is very necessary in a company and this can be only made
possible through establishment of strong employee relations between employees and
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employer. This is the role that is taken forward by human resource department. They also
play the vital role of satisfying employees by solving their problems and issues. It is the
main responsibility of human resource manager to gain deep knowledge of all laws
governing employees so that legal activities can only be performed (Briller and
Goldmacher, 2020). Furthermore, to communicate these policies to employee level,
again, communication skills comes in role and makes in important for human resource
manager to improve these skills. Networking skills: The HR of the organisation should be people's person and he should
be communicating the strategies of the organisation to employees. The organisations have
many employees and they have different need which the HR should understand because
they have to increase the satisfaction of the employees. They should help the employees
and network with them because they want to select the best employees and help them in
building long term relations with the organisation (Flöthmann and Hoberg, 2017). The
employees have to coordinate the work with different departments and HR should help
them in networking when they are selecting and should share the strategies with the
employees of the organisation.
Strengths Weaknesses
 Critical thinking skill is major strength
that I possess.
 The ability to formulate decisions
enables me to deal with different
situations.
 I do not have adequate persuasion skills
for influencing behavioural pattern of
others.
 I have certain hesitation levels when I
represent myself among others that
illustrates that I have certain aspects
that I need to enhance for creation of
positive impact.
Opportunities Threats
 It is important of personal development
plan must be utilised in an appropriate
manner so that weaknesses can be
declined affirmatively.
 Lack of time acts like of critical threat
within professional life.
 Absence of tolerance along with
patience that further amplifies
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 Communication skills might be
amplified by opting for personality
development classes.
magnitude of conflicts or issues for me.
 Differentiations in working culture
leads to creation of relevant impact on
performance.
Career action plan
Skill audit is the process through which an evaluation of skills is carried out so as to
understand the strengths and weaknesses in current skill set (Hughes, 2016). This will assist in
carrying out different activities those can help to improve required skills for becoming a
successful for human resource manager. This part of the report will focus on carrying out this
audit on oneself.
Requirement Personal audit
(10)
Gap
Decision making skills 7 Holding the position of HR, it
is essential that there are some
decision made that will help
that person to outperform his
or her skills and capabilities.
In this case, it is very difficult
to identify how decisions can
be formulated that will assist
in implementing strategies so
that delays in operations can
be prevented in organization.
Communication skills 7 The most important
responsibility of humanb
resource manager is to interact
with employees so that
policies and strategies can be
communicated to them.
Furthermore, communication
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between employees and human
resource manager is important
so as to make their roles and
responsibilities clear to
employees. Language may act
as a barrier for employees, but
it should be removed so as to
make communication more
effective.
Written skills 6 Written skills are those
through which human resource
manager will be able to attract
employees to the job openings
of firm. This will help
management to acquire
effective and talented
employees.
Presentation skills 7 The eye-catching content will
lead to significant
enhancement within
employees.
Here comes the importance that process of examination of future skills holds. This
evaluation will help an individual to plan for future development in professional capacity
(Robinson, Ruhanen, and Breakey, 2016). This evaluation will help an individual to acquisition
of knowledge so that skills can be improved and improvisations can also be made.
Skill that
need to be
developed
Resources
needed
Actions required Measurement
of success
Targeted
date
Presentation To be active To improve presentation skills, I will attempt to
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skills in different
training
classes and
getting more
analytical
mind set so
that things
can be
presented
from
authentic
sources.
there are different activities and
tasks those can be performed. I
will learn different features of
power point software through
which I can present my ideas
with more effectiveness.
Furthermore, I will give some
demo presentation to my
colleagues and friends which
can improve my presentation
skills.
get revert from
my peers, tutors
and also
colleagues. This
revert will be in
the form of
feedback.
Through this
technique, self
evaluation will
become more
accurate.
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Communica
tion Skill
To improve
my
communicati
on skills, I
will attend to
various
training
sessions
which will
facilitate me
to interact
with more
individuals
and also will
attend
conferences.
In my SWOT analysis, I have
already figured out that I have
strong communication skills.
Yet in the job role of human
resource manager, it is
important that I am taking active
part in several conferences and
seminars, related with different
governing laws of employees.
Feedback from
peers and
teachers can be
taken. This can
also be
measured
through gaining
the trust value
in peers and
superiors.
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January,
2021
Short term and long term goals
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Short-term goals (Next 12 months)
The major objective that should be achieved in coming near future is that employees should be
motivated to work with more efficiency. This can be achieved through better communication.
Presentations should be held so that opinions and ideas can be presented well and they can also
be implemented.
Long-term goals (Post 2 years)
To acquire knowledge with respect to roles along with liabilities that is carried out by HR
Manager.
To possess relevant as well as significant knowledge of alterations that occurs in working
environment which may be either technological, economical and many other aspects.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be elucidated that the most important step in planning for
future success of individuals is that they should analyse the skills possessed by them (Spanjaard,
Hall and Stegemann, 2018). Analysis of only present skills is not enough, it is important that
those skills should also be identified which will be required to become successful in chosen
career field. After determination of skills and capabilities, next step is to identify various
methods and techniques required to improve these skills. It is important to conduct self
evaluation programs so as to determine different sources those can be used to improve skills and
capabilities. These sources can be attending conferences, symposiums, online media and various
other aspects. Above formulated plan and strategies can be used to gain growth if future
prospective in field of professional life. This report also helps to analyze the time frame that is
required to gain the desired objectives and goals. One important step in this plan is to receive
feedback from peers and superiors also so as to actual position can be determined.
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Hughes, C., 2016. Diversity intelligence: Integrating diversity intelligence alongside intellectual,
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