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Your role as a People Specialist in the RAF will be diverse, exciting, and highly rewarding. Wherever the RAF is operational, there is a team of People Specialists ready to provide a professional service to personnel of all specialisations.
Working in HR (Human Resources) can be a challenging yet highly rewarding career and, after completing university, HR is a field that attracts many young people for graduate jobs and careers.
Graduate HR jobs will suit those who love the challenge of working in a varied role. Many people think jobs in HR are just about hiring and firing staff for a company. Whilst that is a component of human resources jobs, there is also much more to the role.
HR graduate schemes with larger companies should give you the opportunity to perform various HR assistant jobs in different areas of the department so that you get a full overview of what the role entails. Eventually, this will help you to pinpoint your strengths so that you can move into HR manager jobs in the future.
As well as learning about the recruitment process for your company and the laws and legislation around this, HR graduate schemes will also give you experience in:
Human resources jobs can crop in a whole variety of sectors and this is also true of HR graduate programmes that are designed to fast track your career. Whatever the sector, as companies grow, either an HR team will be required or just one or two people can fulfil the company needs. This obviously depends on the size of the company.
HR graduate schemes are often to be found with larger companies that are looking for the best graduates to fill their roles. You could be doing graduate HR jobs in sectors such as:
If you are working for a smaller company, graduate human resources jobs will see you covering all areas of the role. Larger companies will have the capacity to have people doing specialist HR jobs in a particular area of the profession so you could choose to specialise in one of these areas.
Graduate HR jobs are popular amongst university leavers and, whether you apply for roles whilst still at university, or you apply after graduation, employers will be looking for particular skills and traits that they think will make you the perfect person for their roles. For some graduate jobs in HR, there might be company assessment centres that could include various tasks, role plays, interviews and psychometric testing.
If you have done HR jobs as internships whilst still studying, this could give you a chance to stand out above the competition either with the company you did the internship with or with other companies who offer HR graduate schemes or other HR vacancies. Some companies will require you to have a 2:1 degree, whilst others will ask for a minimum 2:2.
As for your degree subject, for many companies offering graduate jobs, it is not important what you specialised in. However, some companies might look for business related degrees or other subjects that relate to HR such as social sciences. If you think a particular aspect of your degree could give your application for HR jobs a boost, be sure to highlight this in your application.
and keep up to date with developments in HR.
especially important in graduate HR jobs for larger companies with various HR, and other, departments.
all human resources jobs will require you to be able to deal with staff members in a tactful, sometimes compassionate, way and also maintain their confidence. As well as organising training and staff development, HR assistant jobs and HR graduate schemes will also prepare you for dealing with staff welfare when difficult situations arise.
not everyone is going to agree with your way of thinking or new ideas when you are doing human resources jobs. Sometimes, this will require you to persuade people around in a professional and convincing way.
graduate HR jobs will require you to learn quickly so that you really know your stuff and can communicate with others in a way that demonstrates you know your role.
Human resources jobs are about looking after company staff, professionally and, sometimes, personally, too. If you are asking for particular behaviour practices from the staff then you need to demonstrate that you can do the same.
Starting salaries for graduate HR jobs will depend on the type of company you have applied to. If you have applied for specialised HR graduate schemes, you could be starting on an attractive salary. Those of you who are applying to smaller firms, you could be starting out doing HR assistant jobs where the salary is slightly less until you gain experience or CIPD qualifications.
When you embark upon HR graduate careers, many companies will be hoping to fast track you, especially if you have been awarded a place on dedicated HR graduate programmes. Once you have completed placements or training, HR manager jobs could be possible or, eventually, HR director roles.
E4S regularly advertises vacancies with companies offering human resources jobs for graduates. If you think HR is the graduate career for you, take a look to see if there is anything suitable right now.
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