Professional Development: HR Manager Career and Skills Analysis Report

This report analyzes the career of a Human Resource (HR) Manager, focusing on professional development within the field. It begins with an introduction to the HR field, defining the role and responsibilities of an HR Manager, including recruitment, training and development, compensation and benefits, and organizational leadership. The main body of the report delves into various career paths within HR and provides an analysis of the HR manager role. The report identifies the author's strengths, such as communication, goal-orientation, and emotional stability, and links these strengths to the requirements of an HR Manager. Potential challenges, such as public speaking, are acknowledged, and strategies for overcoming them are discussed. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and self-improvement in the HR field. The report highlights the significance of personal and professional development in achieving career goals and suggests that the author's strengths can be leveraged to overcome identified challenges and succeed in the HR field.

BA Business Studies
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Describe given professional field...........................................................................................4
Discuss and analyse career paths............................................................................................5
Identify own strengths and link them with possible career paths...........................................7
Identify possible challenges and discuss how to overcome them with your strengths..........7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development mainly emphasize upon improving social and mental skills while
professional development emphasize upon making improvement in knowledge and skills through
which one can significantly improve potential in work environment. Both of these skills play
essential role that can effectively and efficiently enhance individual’s growth opportunity
(Albrecht, Moscard and Dwyer, 2021). Personal and professional development is mainly a
process to learn new skills, knowledge and capabilities in order to overcome the challenges as to
accomplish desirable goals. Main benefit associated with personal and professional development
is that it helps in managing individual learning and growth throughout their career. With the help
of continuous learning and developing knowledge and skill one can assure greater awareness in
industry. It is essential for an individual to significantly manage their learning with the help of
determining own strength and weaknesses. This will effectively help them to underline measures
and strategies through which the challenges can be overcome in effective manner. Present report
has been conducted on improving own learning and performance in this selected professional
field of interest. For this identification of strength is being mentioned in this report along with
possible challenges and the measure to overcome them with them.
MAIN BODY
Describe given professional field
Field of professional interest is human resource and my dream job in this is human resource
manager. It has been identified that there are number of career paths prevailing in human
resource such as HR Assistant, HR Generalist, Recruiter, Training and development coordinator,
HR manager and more. Among of all these I am aiming towards to be a successful HR Manager.
Human resource manager are having responsibility for enlisting, screening, meeting and placing
employees at right place (Partridge, 2021). They may likewise deal with representative relations,
finance, advantages, and preparing. HR directors plan, immediate and facilitate the managerial
elements of an association. They regulate experts in their obligations, talk with leaders on
essential arranging, and connection an organization's administration with its workers.
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Human resource profession offers number of chances to individual through which they can have
strong opportunities for their growth and development. There are different types of opportunity
in this field. Furthermore it has been underlined that human resource is significantly increasing
as a profession that offers job satisfaction as well as growth potential ability to individuals.
Furthermore it has been identified that in this field there are different type of functions to support
workforce that are employee training and development, compensation and benefits, hiring and
placement, recruitment, employee assistance and information system. Human resource job is that
really involved in each and every aspects of workforce (Cowan, Clayton and Bochantin, 2021). It
has been identified that there are number of varieties for everyone in which individual is required
to have special knowledge base. Human resource also offer flexibility and involve collaboration
with employees and project team. In this field there is positive rating for upward mobility and
work stress level. Along with this it has been underline that human resource also offers job
satisfaction and growth potential to individual in which they can ensure moving up while earning
raise and promotion. It has been identified that human resource jobs significantly make an
effective difference to individuals and have capability to impact upon organisational success
(West and Bautista, 2021). This job provides a sense of pride as well as meaning in
organisational growth and development. Human resource role is an essential role which has
higher level of impact by performing. In this individual can effectively shape the work
experience along with employees in an organisation. In this role individual at every stage
contribute themselves in building a team culture. Human resource facilitate individual to look at
the big picture through which they can assure more growth in a well defined and effective
manner. Human resource professionals have significant responsibility to manage employees
those who are most valuable asset of organisation. However it has been identified that workers at
all level have significant contribution in organisation profitability and long term sustainability.
While human resource has responsibility to manage all the workers which helps organisation to
increase workforce effectiveness of company (Zacharia, 2021). In Human Resource,
professionals with the help of strategic and administrative approach aim towards enhancing
talent within organisation. Organisations around the world significantly understand the
importance of this role in company. Thus, it has been identified that this role is having significant
opportunity through which one can maximize its growth opportunity in an effective manner.
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Discuss and analyse career paths
It has been evaluated that human resource manager are having number of responsibilities such
as, training and development in this HR manager are required to work in preparing and
evaluating to find the need careful information on organization tasks and expert necessities. It is
essential for an HR manager to have critical evaluation skill in order to determine the need of
skills and capabilities within workforce within organisation. Along with this, HR manager have
authority to implement various forms of HR practice in order to determine information on
preparing approaches (Elufiede and Barker-Stucky, 2021). This has been underlined that in the
career path of HR manager they are responsible guide other individuals by offering them proper
training and development opportunities. In addition to this, HR manager is also having
responsibility to analyse industry environment in order to offer competitive compensation and
benefits to employees. It has been identified that, compensation and benefits mainly include pay
and advantages in which HR manager must have an exceptionally multi-layered work. They are
required to have intensive information on the organization's monetary history, measurements on
the business standard of pay for each position in the organization just as insights for those
situations inside the particular organization they work for. They are also required to work
inseparably with their human asset organisational spending plan and monetary supervisors to
guarantee that the ability required can be gotten at or inside the accessible monetary assets.
Furthermore, it has been underlined that, HR managers also have authority to recommend proper
remuneration and arrangement for assistance for each fresh recruit and current representative
based on experience and status. It is one of the most important roles of HR manager that
enhances this role effectiveness in human resource. Furthermore, it has been underlined that in
this career path HR manager have the responsibility related to recruiting. It has been determined
that it is one of the most requesting and dynamic specializations in HR. In addition to this,
another important role in this career path is organisational leadership. It has been underlined that
HR manager professionals are significant part of upper level management in an organisation.
They help other organization chiefs and officials in creating and rehearsing commonsense and
powerful administration procedures, direct gathering cooperative energy and expert association
workshops and occasions (Khdour, 2021). Along with this, in this role financial leadership is
also one of the most important roles that an HR manager is required to play within an
organisation. In this they are required to see to the spending plan of the division, plan its
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utilization, and make proposals to upper administration to grow or decrease the financial plan as
essential as indicated by departmental and organization needs. In addition to this, it has been
underlined that, in this role HR manager are required to work with each administration proficient
in HR to guarantee that specialists are being remunerated decently while remaining inside
budgetary rules (Dokey and Abunar, 2021). It has been evaluated that, HR resource is
continually developing changing. Furthermore, it has been determined that is continually
advancing in which it is essential for individuals to continuously keeps on learning new skills
and knowledge.
Figure 1: Role of HR Manager
Identify own strengths and link them with possible career paths
I have number of strengths and effective skills that will help me to perform my role as HR
manager in my selected field of interest. It has been identified by me that I am having strong
communication skill through which I can effectively communicate with my official, colleague’s
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employees and others members. This will significantly allow me to perform my role as an HR
manager in effective manner through which I can not only communicate organisational vision
and mission to employees but can also communicate them other necessary things in effective
manner. Furthermore, it has been identified by me that I am a goal oriented person and always
emphasize to accomplish my targets in a set framework of time. In addition to this I am also a
committed individual in which I always try to accomplish my work accordingly. Furthermore, I
am also having strength of an optimistic person in which I always aim towards avoiding negative
feelings. This skill will effectively help me to build a positive work place in organisational
workplace structure. This skill play essential role in human resource as they are responsible to
provide a positive environment in organisation. This will help company to enhance employee
performance, their job satisfaction level and overall growth. In addition to this it has been
underlined by me that I am also a good learner through which I can easily learn from audio and
visual mediums. This is one of the most important and effective skill that will significantly aid
me to perform my role in Human Resource in effective manner, as with the help of the skill I can
effectively identify the requirement of skill and knowledge and capabilities in my role according
to the business environment and can effectively learn them as to enhance my role effectiveness.
In addition to this I always welcome feedback from other individual through which I can
significantly perform my role, as in this HR manager has significant responsibility to undertake
feedback from each and every individual in order to overcome their issues. This skill will also
aid me to enhance motivation and satisfaction of employees. Furthermore, I am also having
strong emotional stability that helps me to control my anger and deal with stress and complex
situations in effective manner. This skill will effectively allow me to perform my role as an HR
in which I can we solve complex situations with an organisational workplace structure in
effective manner.
Thus according to the above mentioned analysis it has been identified by me that with the
help of my own strengths I can effectively perform my role as a human resource manager. All
these skills will effectively facilitate an HR manager to enhance organisational growth and
profitability, as with the help of my skills I can provide a positive culture in company by
motivating employees in effective manner. Furthermore it has been identified by me that these
skills will also assist me to guide individual that will significantly enhance my role effectiveness.
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Identify possible challenges and discuss how to overcome them with your strengths
It is essential for an individual to identify their weaknesses or challenges, as these can impact
upon their performance and role along with future opportunities. I have some certain challenges
that can act as my weaknesses. These challenges will not only impact on my role as an HR
manager but can also affect my performance ability. Thus, all these challenges are required to be
effectively overcome by me in order to enhance my competitiveness as to achieve my goals with
better results. By overcoming these challenges will significantly help to enhance my
effectiveness in work while improving efficiency. According to my evaluation it has been
identified by me that my biggest challenge is better communication on stage although I am
having strong communication skills but sometime I do not feel confident to communicate on
stage. Better communications on stage is one of the most important skills that are required by an
HR manager as they are responsible to provide guidance, motivation and direction to employees
in a workplace structure (Matthews and Dobbins, 2021). Furthermore, as per my analysis I also
faced challenges in my creativity at workplace. Creativity play important role in performing, it is
the responsibilities of HR as with the help of the skills HR can effectively involve in innovating
new methods in workplace as to enhance motivation and job satisfaction of employees. In
addition to this leadership skill is also one of my major challenge which is essential skill
required by an HR manager. It is essential for an HR manager to have strong leadership skill in
order to provide motivation and guidance to employees in workplace structure. It is essential for
me to significantly develop this skill as to enhance my role effectiveness in my selected field of
interest (King, 2021). Furthermore I also have challenge in terms of planning and organising.
This is an essential and most necessary skill required by an HR manager as they are responsible
to manage different type of work such as planning and scheduling recruiting selecting as per the
plan and proper organising structure. In addition to this I also faced challenge in working in a
team. This is utmost necessary for an HR manager in order to effectively perform their roles and
responsibilities, as they are require to engage in decision making process with top to lower
employees and executive with an organisation in order to formulate strategies and plans
accordingly.
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I also face challenges in terms of technological skills an HR manager is required to have
adequate computer skill knowledge such as understanding of MS Word, access and more in
order to perform their roles and responsibilities. Technological skill not only allow HR manager
to accomplish work with higher technical ability but also allows them to be assure reliable
results. Thus according to the above-mentioned analysis it has been identified by me that these
are some of my major challenges which is essential for me to overcome. However in order to
overcome these challenges I will take advantage of my strength such as strong communication
skill and be an optimistic person I will undertake use of different strategies and practices to
overcome these ineffective skills furthermore it has been underlined by me that I am a good
learner through which I can learn all the skills from adequate resources in proper framework of
time.
S.n
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LEARNING
OBJECTIVE/
GOAL
CURRENT
PROFICIE
NCY
TARGET
PROFICIE
NCY
DEVELOPM
ENT
OPPORTUNI
TIES
CRITER
IA FOR
JUDGIN
G
SUCCES
S
TIME
SCALE
EVIDEN
CE
1. Better
communication
on stage
My personal
communicati
on skill an
ability to
communicat
e at stage is
Target is to
completely
achieve and
develop my
communicati
on skill on
In order to
develop this
skill I will take
use of classes
and sessions
that are being
. In order
to charge
my
success
criteria I
will
To
significantl
y develop
the
communic
ation skill
This will
be duly
recorded
in my
performa
nce
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comparativel
y low
stage properly
attended by me
in order to
significantly
develop my
communicatio
n ability on
stage.
undertake
judgemen
t on the
basis of
performa
nce in
public
and on
the stage.
on stage it
will take
total 20
days.
record
2. Listening skills
I have
average
listening
skill.
I have to
develop
strong
listening
skill.
With the help
of active
listening and
offering
feedback.
Taking
feedback
from
others.
Approxima
tely 1
month.
Performa
nce
record.
3. Leadership
skills
As per my
analysis I
have weak
leadership
skill.
I have made
target to
have strong
and
competent
leadership
skill.
By practising
discipline,
resolving
conflict and
inspiring
others.
Practicin
g regular
feedback
from
colleague
.
To develop
this skill
20 days
will be
done.
Measure
d in
performa
nce
record.
4. Planning and
Organizing
This skill is
weak in as
my personal
capability.
I aim
towards
building my
planning and
organizing
skill in
effective
By identifying
critical tasks,
establishing
priorities and
note taking
with effective
action plan.
With the
help of
regular
evaluatio
n.
Approxima
tely 1.5
months.
Taking
feedback
from
others.
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manner.
5. Team Work
I have weak
team
working
skill.
To develop
strong team
working
skill.
By establishing
team rules,
recognizing
and rewards,
making team
and clarifying
purpose.
Taking
feedback
from
team
proper on
regular
basis.
2 months Evaluatin
g view
point
from
other
individua
ls.
6. Technological
skills
Technologic
al skill is not
effective in
me.
To
significantly
develop
strong
technologica
l skill.
By taking use
of technical
classes and
workshops.
Judging
performa
nce of
daily
basis.
To develop
this skill 1
month will
be done.
Will be
recorded
in
performa
nce card.
7. Creativity skill
I have low
level of
creativity
skill. This
skill is
required to
be improved
by me in
order to be
more
creative
person to
perform the
role of HR
My target to
effectively
maximize
this skill at
great extent
in order to
develop and
innovate
new
methods to
work.
In order to
effectively
develop this
skill I will take
advantage of
preparing the
schedule of
work and
decreasing
pressure while
thinking
creatively
towards my
roles and
responsibility.
I will
incorpora
te
innovatio
n in my
new
technique
s in
workplac
e as to
creatively
perform
my roles
and
responsib
To develop
the skills 2
weeks of
time
duration
will be
undertaken
In order
to make
sure that
I have.
develope
d my
creativity
skill
evidence
in the
form of
colleague
feedback
will be
undertak
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manager in
significant
manner. ility at
workplac
e
en
Thus according to the above mentioned analysis it has been identified by me that I am
having certain challenges in terms of different skills such as better communication on stage,
listening skill, leadership skill, planning and organising, team work, technological skill and
creativity skill. All these skills plays essential role in performing roles and responsibilities of an
HR manager. Thus, to enhance the effectiveness and capability to get my dream job in my
related field of interest will undertake advantage of different type of measures and strategies in
order to effectively enhance by current level of these skills. This will not only help me to
enhance my effectiveness and capabilities but also allow me to form my role as an HR manager
in future in a well defined and effective manner. It has been identified by me that all these skills
will be developed by me with the help of taking different opportunities is such as taking
advantage of classes and sessions, feedback from other individuals and colleagues and other
workshops and technical classes. This will significantly allow me to overcome my challenges
and proper timeframe through which I can assure your effective increase in my current level of
these skills.
In addition to this it has been identified by me that these skills will not only facilitate me to
get my dream job but also enhance my capabilities through which I can not only perform my job
role in a well defined and effective manner but can also guide and motivate other individuals
effectively. It is essential for an individual to determine the challenges in order to get
development and growth opportunity in future. Thus with the help of identifying my challenge I
can significantly perform my roles in effective manners. This will also help me to increase my
performance level through which I can cure my challenges in time effective manner and can
enhance my performance in future as an HR manager.
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