HR Administrator
Overview

The HR administrator role combines the roles of HR and Administration and is responsible for carrying out an administrative service to the rest of the team.

Role Description

Role description

The HR administrator role combines the roles of HR and Administration and is responsible for carrying out an administrative service to the rest of the team. You’ll be responsible for all the information relevant to HR including record keeping and reporting and making sure that everything you do is carried out to a consistently high standard of work. This means that you will provide a supporting role to a specialist team so they can free their own time up to carry out their own possibly higher valued tasks.

What would you be doing?

The functions of the job will depend on experience, but some possible tasks are:

  • Providing clerical support for your colleagues within the HR department
  • Organising files both electronically and paper copies
  • Dealing with correspondence
  • Maintaining HR calendars
  • Liaising with internal and external customers
  • Collaborating on payroll and the training of staff
  • Ensure procedures within the company are up to date
  • Communicating with other employees
  • Working as support for the rest of the HR team
  • Dealing with any queries and helping to resolve problems

What is expected from you?

Effective in your job, someone who will pay attention to detail and will need to be done very accurately.

Someone who enjoys working and dealing with people in a sensitive and mindful manner. You should be able to follow deadlines and work well under pressure. It’s good if you are a fast learner and can prioritise workloads.

As someone who will support a team you will be expected to be a team builder and be able to work effectively with people who have a variety of personalities.

What about the pay?

Typically, a HR administrator can earn between £20,000 and £25,000 per year although this varies from location to location and the size of your employer.

What qualifications do I need to get?

It is very likely these days most people who start as a HR administrator have a degree in something that relates to admin or HR such as HR management, psychology or a business-related degree.

But it’s a possibility some companies may take you on as trainee with NVQ and SVQ type qualifications such as A-levels or Higher or as an administration apprentice so look for those qualifications as well.

Remember the better the qualifications you have at entry, the faster your career Is likely to develop.

What about further training?

You may have worked in the HR field for a period, and you may have studied for several CIPD qualifications previously such as:

  • CIPD level 3 foundation certificate in HR practice
  • CIPD level 3 course in learning and development

There is a wide variety of CIPD specialist qualifications available on a part-time basis in local FE colleges. You may also want to consider a MSc in Human resource management which available through the CIPD

Membership of the CIPD is also well thought of by many employers in the field of HR management.

There is also many courses and events relating to HR which can be found online if you do the research.

Anything else I might need to know?

Yes, remember that working in HR is a great career foundation and you will learn lots about the different departments within your company.

If you demonstrate that you have got the will to succeed the chances, are you will go far in HR.

Did you know?

Anything else I might need to know?

Yes, remember that working in HR is a great career foundation and you will learn lots about the different departments within your company.

If you demonstrate that you have got the will to succeed the chances, are you will go far in HR.

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What about further training?

You may have worked in the HR field for a period, and you may have studied for several CIPD qualifications previously such as:

  • CIPD level 3 foundation certificate in HR practice
  • CIPD level 3 course in learning and development

There is a wide variety of CIPD specialist qualifications available on a part-time basis in local FE colleges. You may also want to consider a MSc in Human resource management which available through the CIPD

Membership of the CIPD is also well thought of by many employers in the field of HR management.

There is also many courses and events relating to HR which can be found online if you do the research.

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