{"id":2870,"date":"2020-04-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/history\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","slug":"gaining-work-experience-in-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/04\/02\/gaining-work-experience-in-hr\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaining Work Experience in HR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This post comes from second year undergraduate Harry Brown, who is conducting a work placement as part of the Engaging Humanities module. <\/em><\/strong>Harry’s experience demonstrates the numerous career trajectories open to our students.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I have completed two days of work experience in as\nan Human Resources Assistant to the HR Manager at T.H. White Ltd Head Office in\nDevizes. The immediate project I was assigned involved gathering as much\nevidence as possible on details of the coronavirus; facts, statistics and\nfigures that affect company policy, regarding health and safety, pay, sickness\nand holidays looking into the immediate future. This I found rewarding as I was\napplying some research skills and directly helping the company in its decision\nmaking. The responsibility helped fuel my ambition to get the job done as\neffectively and efficiently as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next task to complete was to study and understand the\nrules and regulations surrounding redundancy and redundancy pay, something\nwhich is clearly in the news a lot at present. From this, I learnt new aspects\nof the law and began to understand the extent of the safeguards in place for\nthe employee and the stringent conditions a company is aligned to in such as\nprocess. The next task was to understand the information around dismissal and\nhow this decision is brought about. For this aspect, I was given a scenario to\nshadow, which provided me with experience regarding how the regulations and\nprocess of dismissal is operated. This was the single most interesting part of\nthe work experience thus far, as the decision of dismissal is the most severe\nprocedure an HR department carries out. The responsibility of getting the facts\nof scenarios and the law correct means that the responsibility lies fully in\nthe company and the process and procedure must be to the book and there must be\nno breaches in the law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry (left) at the careers event representing T.H. White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also attended a year 10\/11 careers event whereby I acted\nas a representative of T.H. White, discussing career opportunities and work\nexperience within the company with regards to Human Resources. I found this\nwent very well, as I could relate to what many young people of 15\/16 years of\nage think about  career possibilities and\nthe abundance of opportunities, as I was at that stage just five years ago,\nwith many options in front of me. Since the two days of work experience, I have\nbeen assigned the task of reading the ACAS guidelines surrounding the code of\npractice on disciplinary and grievance procedures. This will therefore allow me\nto understand the law and tips on procedure to then progress in my\nunderstanding of knowledge within the field of Human Resources. This in turn\nwill make my understanding of the work experience in the future, much greater\nand enable me to be more confident in my answers to decision making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of the serious coronavirus outbreak in the UK, my\nnext phase of work experience has been postponed, therefore I will most likely\nbe looking at a few months before engaging in some more HR. I will therefore\nuse this time to read articles and books surrounding the HR field, to give me a\nmore in-depth understanding of the job and therefore, hopefully this will\nenable me to have more information attained before engaging in some more\npractical experience. Furthermore, if this coronavirus pandemic continues\nbeyond May, then I shall consult my Human Resources manager regarding possible\nfacetime of Skype calls so that I can undergo virtual work experience to help\ncomplete my set-amount of hours for the work experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall therefore, I can say that I have thoroughly enjoyed\nmy work experience. My Human Resources manager Jacqui has been very helpful and\nhas made the job as practical as possible, alongside a good amount of\neducational learning which, I thoroughly believe has been a good balance and\nhas provided me with a fabulous insight into the field of HR. I am very much\nlooking forward to the next phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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