Job HopperI have been in my current position as a staffing coordinator for 6 months and already starting to search for another position. The agency location i work at is in a rebuilding stage. The office is starting to become slow and showing no progress. I don't feel like i am learning all the aspects of HR and do not see any room to grow with this company. I would like to get back into the corporate environment. It was a career change for me from sales to HR so i had to take lower pay than i was previously making to aquire the skills and experience need in the HR profession. I have increased the progress of the agency from what shape it was previously in but don't think i can take it much longer. Many organizations require min. of year HR experience so i am starting my search now in hopes of it taking 3 to 6 months that would put me at being at current position close to a year. How will recruiters view my resume? (Keep in mind, on my resume i don't in include the months worked, only the year) Will they see it as a not far removed college grad looking to find there way or someone they would not consider interviewing? In the past 3 years since graduating college in December 2005 i have been with 3 companies. My work history as follows: Corporate Account Executive I (Telecom) - March 2006-July 2006 Left due to relocation Sales Representative (Telecom) - December 2006- July 2007 Career Change to Human Resouce Staffing Coordinator (Recruiting Agency) - July 2007- Current
Well, three jobs/companies in 3 years is not great from a resume perspective. As you have figured out Recruiting Agency work & Sales are close cousins to each other. It was a change, but not a huge change. You could certainly do your resume, being clear what you are moving towards and why, but as the saying goes, don't quit your day job. Every month helps. Get the experience while you can get it. And in the meantime, search for that next job. You are not going to learn all aspects of HR in a recruiting/staffing agency, because that's not the work. Recruitment is one piece of the HR puzzle, and working from the agency side means that you are missing some of the internal corporate processes that are part of the recruitment function. I do recommend that you develop some clarity about what parts of HR are a fit with you. You could leverage your currrent role into an Internal Corporate Recruitment role, and then from there, see what you can do. Or you can make a change to another part of HR. But be clear, the former will be easier to do than the later. There are many parts to HR. What do you want to do? Ian Christie Career Changers Coach | |
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