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These six useful tips will help you land on the job you wish for, in no time
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Accept Challenging Assignments Network on Professional Platforms such as LinkedIn 6 Tips to get Your Dream Human Resources Job Take up Global Assignments Write Domain-centric Articles and get them Published Market Yourself as an HR Brand Get a Certification
1. Network on Professional Platforms such as LinkedIn Social media tools such as LinkedIn can help you propel your career to greater heights. You can easily build a powerful network of professionals, however, make sure you make the right connections. Don’t tout your connections until you really know them. Join networks where you get to meet people with similar interests or professional background. Active participation in groups like these can be really helpful for your career.
2. Write Domain-centric Articles and get them Published To share your ideas and to get introduced as a distinct HR professional write articles in your HR specialty. Get them published, you can load them on various platform such as LinkedIn Pulse, ezinearticles.com, and others. Make sure you write the articles only after you have checked the requirements of the sites on which you want to upload them.
3. Get a Certification An HR certification such as PHR, GPHR or SPHR to an HR professional is what a finance certification like the CFA is to a Finance professional. Not only does it help you to stand out from other job seekers, but it also helps in career growth. So get a HR certification and demonstrate your expertise in your HR specialty.
4. Accept Challenging Assignments Even if it is not a part of your job, volunteer to take up assignments that give you exposure to different domains such as talent acquisition, compensation, labor relations, and more. By stretching yourself into roles that are entirely different from yours, you increase your chances of being hired or moved to roles that require managing people from different domains or functions.
5. Take up Global Assignments As businesses are going global these days, they are looking for people with international experience. Therefore, don’t think twice before denying an opportunity of relocating anywhere outside your country. Not only will the exposure to international assignments broaden your horizon, but it will also equip you with a unique understanding and skill-set that businesses require these days.
6. Market Yourself as an HR Brand To become a brand you must market yourself and what’s better than writing a book or starting your own blog. If you think you don’t have the time to write a book then develop a white paper on your HR specialty. But don’t just stop at writing a book or a whitepaper. Make sure you get people to read them too. Go online and look for ideas to promote them.
Last Few Words Right from hiring the right candidate, to running an extensive training and development program, to ensuring employee satisfaction, to deploying a robust performance improvement plan, the HR department of a company is responsible for most of the employee-centered activities of a company. If you have it in you what it takes to be a dynamic HR manager then there would no dearth of human resources jobs for you, no matter whether you are located in Dallas, Texas or any other city in the US.
