HR Career Viewpoint Report: Trends, Skills, and Job Opportunities

This report provides an overview of the HR (Human Resources) profession, focusing on career viewpoints for students and graduates. It begins with an introduction to HR's crucial role in business and the topics covered, including general trends impacting the profession. The main body discusses how digital technology, globalization, online skill assessments, and targeted recruitment are influencing HR practices. It then outlines the essential skills, knowledge, and experience needed for an HR job, such as communication, management, teamwork, scheduling, and proactivity. The report also includes an example job vacancy advertisement from Marks & Spencer, highlighting benefits for graduates. The conclusion summarizes the importance of HR professionals in organizational success, emphasizing diverse career opportunities and career progression. The report references various academic sources to support its findings.

Career Viewpoint
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
General trends which have positive impact on HR profession...................................................3
Skills, knowledge and experience required for the HR job........................................................4
The advertisement for job vacancy in HR field and how it is beneficial for the graduates........6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Career view is defined as the process which helps the students and graduates to decide
the profession they want to enter on the bases of their knowledge and skills (Aouadi and
Zeigerer, 2020). The profession chosen for this report is HR (human resource). Human resource
management play crucial role in the business weather it be a small scale business or large scale
business. It is describe as the business practice where human resources are managed by HR
manager in order to achieve desire results and to improve the performance of company. The
topic covered in the report are general trends which have positive impact on the HR profession,
the skills,knowledge and expertise required to perform this job role. An advertisement on this job
role and how it is beneficial for the graduates.
MAIN BODY
General trends which have positive impact on HR profession.
In a business organisation, HR profession is contribute a lot in attaining success by the
strategic management of human capital (Armstrong and Mitchell, 2019). As. It also take an
active role in providing support to employees in their career growth. In relation to this, HR
manager also having a major impact over the employees performance because they are focus on
managing their activities at working environment. As business world is continues to grow and
change in which there are various new trends that affecting the HR profession:
Digital technology is replacing the traditional business practices: As per current
scenario, almost every individual or companies are including digital technologies for their day to
day activities. This is the major trend that affect the HR manager in managing their workforce
but at the same time it also help them in building the connecting with others. Innovative digital
technology also includes internal and external mobile apps or cloud based technology. Thus, it is
significant for HR manager to have proper knowledge about the technologies so that they can
easily execute their business activities in an effective way.
Globalisation: It is also an another trend that affect the HR profession because it
completely change the style of managing employee within the company. In this context, when a
business expand its operational activities at a global level then the globalisation put impact over
a HR activities. This is because it consider diverse range of practical adjustment are there to hire,
train and retain workforce. Therefore, HR manager is responsible for managing diverse
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workforce by understanding their different culture and ways of operating. This can be beneficial
for HR manager in promoting innovation that contributes in attainment of all the set targets in an
effective way.
Online skill assessment: This type of trend is also play a significant role in HR
profession because it providing effective talent management tool. In this HR manager includes
surveys, tests, quizzes and exams that offered to the employees to know about them and also
provide them change for self assessment (Kharadze, Paichadze and Paresashvili, 2019). By this
current trend HR manager can improve their workers productiveness towards the organizational
goals and make them efficient to perform well.
Targeted recruitment: It is one of the discussed trend in HR that implement and
processed with the help of social media and cognitive assessment as well. In this, HR manager of
company are use the cognitive technologies that includes natural language processing, self
learning, predictive algorithms. In this trend, HR manager needs to consider career experience
and skills that determine the fit score while recruitment process (Wang, 2018). It define that
whether candidates matches all the organisational requirements or not.
All these are the major trends that affect the HR profession within the company. Thus, it
is significant for HR manager to have enough knowledge about the trends so that they can easily
perform their job role within the company. If they include all the trends within their activities
than they easily attain their targets and also enhance organisational performance.
Skills, knowledge and experience required for the HR job.
Human resource management is described as a set of tasks and activities which aims at
managing the employees of the organisation in the effective manner and is commonly known as
human resource. Every company requires HR for managing and retaining the essential resources
in the organisation. The primary function of HR within the organisation is to structure the
staffing programs and to retain the most skilled and efficient employees by making strategies and
making company attractive to potential candidates (Burga, Leblanc and Rezania, 2020).
Skills require for HR profession
 Communication skills- The person need to be extrovert in nature that is should be able
to interact with other people and develop good relation with them. In context of
organisation the HR is responsible to make the employees comfortable and provide them
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safe working environment. Should be capable of managing and solving the conflicts of
employees.
 Management skills- Should have managing abilities that is effective and effective
management of human resources in the organisation on the bases of efficiency of
employees (Donald, Baruch and Ashleigh, 2017).
 Team work and collaborations- The individuals must have skills to function in team as
effective results are drive from working in team. Collaborating refers to the ability to
work with the experienced professional belong to other field. The individuals with these
skills provide value to organisation and is essential for building career in this profession.
 Scheduling skills- The individual who is planning to build career in HR filed should
have skills to schedule the tasks and activities according to their requirements and
necessities. As its the responsibility of HR within the organization to formulate the plan
which help all the employees in achieving their targets and goals (Yinon and Orland-
Barak, 2017).
 Proactive- It is most important skill that one should have as HR is the mediator between
the employees and employers of the organisation. The proactivity skill will help the HR
in communicating problems and issues of employees to employers.
Knowledge required for HR profession
 Personnel and Human Resources – In this individual must have a knowledge of various
principles and procedures used for procuring personnels (Lipshits-Braziler and Gati,
2019). Procedures followed in the recruitment of personnels are selection, training and
development, compensation and benefits, labour relations and negotiation and
maintaining personnel information systems.
 Administration and Management – In this HR professionals must have the knowledge
of business and management principles and methodology. This involves strategic
planning, allocation of resources, leadership styles and techniques, production methods
used in an industry, human resource modelling and coordination of people and resources.
They are require to know how to build plans and make analysis to fill the gaps with
competent staffing.
Experience required for HR profession
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 Critical Thinking – Critical thinking is a vital aspect for HR roles in the given dynamic
environment. It is important to analyse the difficult situation and respond accordingly
with ease (Masdonati, Fournier and Lahrizi, 2017). It helps in taking critical decisions
and in bringing rational behaviour.
 Relationship building - This is one of the imperative aspect require to gain expertise in
HR profession. It requires effective communication and empathy to build relations. This
further helps in increasing the potential of an organisation and achieving success.
The advertisement for job vacancy in HR field and how it is beneficial for the graduates.
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Marks & Spencer, a well established brand in retail sector invites applications for the following
position:
Position: Human Resource Fresher
Qualification & Experience:
 Graduates from management stream
 Must have minimum 6 months experience in the HR profession
Job Description:
 To assist management of resources
 Perform the function of recruitment and selection
 Prepare and maintain the document work of new employees.
Age: Maximum of 25 years
Application Process: Application along with resume should be submitted online on the website
of company www.marks&spenser.com.
Benefits for the graduates
This job vacancy is good opportunity for fresher as they will get the chance to work with
one of the biggest and well known company. The company is operating at large scale so the role
of HR is very crucial in the operations of business. This is interesting option available to the
graduates as they will get the chance to develop their skills (Spanjaard, Hall and Stegemann,
2018). Moreover while working with such big organisation one will be able to develop project
management skills and get to know many people. It will help in developing good relation with
other people which is benefit for future growth of candidate. The communication skills and the
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management skills will be enhanced and for beginning the professional career from renowned
organisation is beneficial for future growth and development of individual.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that HR professionals always bring a whole
company together. They possess in-depth knowledge of values, policies and organisational
behaviour. They create a link a between personal ambitions and organisational objectives. They
get to influence and assist employees in development and as it is said, employees are as good as
their HR team is. Choosing such a diverse profile as a career brings multiple opportunities for a
person to perform various duties in the capacity of an administrator, recruitment coordinator,
training officer, manager, director, etc. which help them have a highly enlightened career
progression.
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