Human Resource Manager: My Journey To HR Manager

My Journey to HR Manager

During my 16 years of working, three major jobs, six jobs total, I have encountered different sides and roles that a Human Resource Manager plays. Being able to be promoted into an HR position myself, I found out more in depth what the job functions and duties of the HR manager were. I had never gone to school or had any other learning outside of the job. Because I was and still am, determined to learn all that I can in whatever job I am in, I always take the initiative to go above and beyond my job duties, and that is how I landed the job in Human Resources. The role of HR managers differs depending on the company that you work for. HR then in 2010 when I held the position, is a lot different than now, the role

The training now and then, still consisted of computer training. The only difference between now and then, is that then the computer was the number one resource for the employee’s job. When looking for inventory, employees used the computer. When having to schedule a customer for any type of work they needed, the computer was used. So knowing how to use a computer was very important in my previous job. Since the computer was the number one part of the job, when training came around, we didn’t have to walk employees through all the steps to get onto the computer, get to the training page and then get the training completed. In my current job, the computer is only used for reports and the annual online training. We also have veteran officers whom of which, are older officers, and even after the years that they have worked here, we still have to walk most of the officers through the whole computer process. A lot of our job training now, consist of hands on. So the computer is rarely used, even when it comes to officers having to do reports on the computer, supervisors usually type up their written report because we can usually get it typed up quicker. Not the best part of my job