A career in HR can be challenging, but also very rewarding. There are lots of different areas you can specialise in or stay in a generalist role and get a lot of variety. At Elephant we not only plotted out an HR career path, but also have options for your learning if you do specialise.
Here is the career map. The green row is if you follow an academic career, the blue row a generalist HR career, the orange are specialist areas which you can move into a various points from a generalist role, or vice versa. You may also work in operational roles that have HR responsibilities (the bottom row). It’s fantastic to see that CEO’s are now starting to be appointed from having an HR or people and culture background!
Check out this video by Elephant co-founder Angela Atkins, about the different paths, what skills or experience you’ll need and what the challenges of working in HR are!
To help you with your career, we offer a range of HR workshops, as well as our Certificate programmes. These are practical, useful and fun and designed to really help develop your skills and knowledge in HR (or people & culture, PX, people & capability or whatever your company calls it!). Here’s an overview of our programmes:
An 8 month programme to learn to deliver HR in real life – building on theory you might have learned at University.
An 8 month programme focused on building your practical, tactical skills and experience in all the fundamental areas of recruiting, sourcing, selection and working with hiring managers.
For those with 2 years+ HR experience, this Certificate will give you the skills and knowledge to deliver in all operational areas of HR.
For those preparing for an HRBP role or wanting to hone your skills to add real value to your organisation.
If you want to specialise in Employment Relations but not train as an employment lawyer, this Certificate is for you!
For those moving into Learning or OD roles:
Our OD Fundamentals Certificate covers key areas of organisational development if you are expanding your HR role.
For those with senior HR experience but now preparing for or working in OD at a strategic level.
For those new to L&D and wanting to learn all the essentials to start your learning career on the best foot!
Our Strategic Learning and Development Certificate is for those moving into an L&D Partner level role.
Meet our team
We have a team of HR and employment law specialists who support our training and certificate programmes around the world!
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Read the blog
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