Good Human Resources skills!

The Human Resources function in a company typically covers the following responsibilities:

Recruitment and selection:

The Recruitment Process; Defining and Sizing a Vacancy; Advertising a vacancy ; Using an Agency Targeted Selection – Competency based Interviewing; Candidate Selection and Making an Offer; The Induction of New Staff.

Human Resources Legislation:

Employers rights and obligations; Employees rights and obligations; Legislation in the workplace.

Employee Relations:

Managing Employee Relations; Managing Staff Motivation; Human Resources Communications; Managing and dealing with Conflict; Staff Grievance and disciplinary procedures.

Management :

Monitoring & Recording Performance; Reaching and agreeing a Performance Agreement and plan ; The Monitoring and Review system and procedures.

Training & Development :

Identifying employee Training Needs; Training Planning and preparation; Training delivery and evaluation.

Coaching & Mentoring :

Objective setting; providing feedback, when to intervene with employees, when to mentor, identifying mentoring needs.

A Human Resources Executive can pursue a career either as a Generalist, where one becomes expert in all of the areas above, or a specialist, where one focusses on one particular area.