I have recently embarked on the CIPD Level 5 HR course. Although, I currently work as a teacher, I am hoping to move up the ranks into higher leadership roles which will require significant HR knowledge. I also feel this course will give me a good skill set for multiple opportunities outside of teaching if I decided that the education sector is not for me.

If you would like to know more about the essence of me, please refer to my previous post “Who?” on the blog but this post is going to focus on my professional experiences and opinions.

I was born and raised in Estonia and completed all my formal education there. I did live in the UK between the age of 6 and 9 which accounts for my excellent English language skills and I have been back in the UK since 2014, having married an Englishman.

I have always been very work orientated. I tutored younger students while I was doing the equivalent of A-levels. I worked part time the whole way through my university studies and even when I first moved to the UK and was waiting for my education documents to be verified I looked for employment even if it was part time, low paid and irrelevant to my formal education.

I do not have a lot of direct HR experience but I have previously worked as a floor manager at a restaurant, where in addition to serving customers I was required to train and induct new staff, report on their progress, and help figure out ways to better our customer service for the benefit of the company. I also often found myself being the person trying to balance what the owner wanted and what the staff could realistically do. I enjoyed the mentoring aspect of my work and believe I was a good tutor, however, I was doing a degree in chemistry and didn’t even consider what the line of HR might have to offer. I really liked the playing with atoms and molecules part of my studies but I soon realised that I was not going to become a scientist. Nonetheless, as I wanted to continue playing with atoms and molecules, I figured, what better way to do so than to teach the future generations how to do so. And that is how I ended up a teacher.

Now, having been a classroom teacher for a few years, I will be starting my first leadership role in September and will hope to progress further in the coming years. I am hard working and punctual, I have a can-do attitude and will never leave anything that can be done today for tomorrow. I am very opinionated and am not shy to voice those opinions but I love discussing opinions and hearing what other people think to find the best way forward. I hope this course will give me the knowledge and skills to be a fair HR professional, balancing my personal drive with the reality, opinions, and expectations of others. I also hope that the knowledge I gain from the course will give me confidence to take on ever more challenging roles as I progress in my career.

 

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