leaving w/i probation periodI need some advice, desperately. I accepted a job that I knew as going to be partially accounts payable and partially human resources. I am a human resource major and that is where I want to take my career. The more I work for this company, the more I realize that I am doing more accounts payable than HR. My supervisor is the Finance Director and has called me her assistant at one point. I will never be able to move up into her position so I feel as though I am wasting my time there. I have been looking for another job. There are tons of HR generalist jobs in Atlanta but I have not received any phone calls out of 20 applications sent. The question I have is, do I tell my boss that I do not think this is a good fit and am looking for another job in the event that during their restructuring they can restructure my job to be more HR oriented or do I just look for the job and tell them I am leaving when I am offered another job? Another problem I am having with this position is that I am only making $27500 (an assistant's pay) in the Metro Atlanta area but the jobs that I am qualified for because of my BS degree are starting at about $37000. Do I inform them that I know I can make more money or just look for the next job? Ok, let' s take this one step at a time. Based on your post title, I' m going to assume you' ve been in this job less than a year. It is a huge hit to your resume (not just now but for several jobs to come) to leave a job in less than a year. Additionally, you' ve got no experience yet, so this is a place to build some. It doesn' t matter that you' re doing X% of AR and Y% of accounting. You' ve got a title and job functions that get you down the HR track. HR is VERY difficult to get into so you need to build whatever you can, where ever you can. You are not wasting time, you are building experience. No, I would not tell your boss that it is not a good fit and you' re looking elsewhere unless you want to be unemployed. What you can do is when you' re talking to your boss about your career goals (perhaps during a review or even during some casual chat), you can say that your true interest is HR and that you' d love to take on more HR responsibilities. You are not qualified for $37K jobs if you don' t have any experience to go with your BA. You absolutely do not know you can make more money if of the 20 jobs you' ve applied to so far, not one has called you back, much less interviewed you and given an offer. If you came to me with a line like that, I' d hand you a box to pack your desk right then and there. Even if you had an offer in hand, most managers would be really annoyed to be blackmailed into giving you more money and would instead just cut you loose. So, bide your time, build your experience. After a year, you can look and probably be more successful in actually getting interviews. Be patient. You don' t get the dream jobs overnight. I do have experience in HR (3 years as a generalist and 1 as a trainer). If you count some of the administrative things I have done with EAP, then I have more to add. I see what you are saying about gaining more experience (which would only be the ADP part) and not complaining or asking for more money. I have actually just had a talk with my super last week about where I want to go and she said she thought she knew that of me. But I found out yesterday that she views my position as 95% accounting and only 5% HR. My title is this: Human Resources/Accounting Assistant. There is no HR manager or coordinator and all I hear is "we don' t know squat about HR" and they come to me but I don' t even know what I am as the HR person. I don' t know, I just need to vent. I don' t know who I can trust and I get easily frustrated. One of their staff that had done some of the HR before I got there is having a hard time giving it up and I' m not included in any of the dept. head meetings so I don' t have a clue as to what is going on. Just really frustrated. I want to get things done but it seems like they don' t want to work with me. You don' t have to be miserable. That' s a choice that you make. So choose not to be and look at it as a stepping stone to where you' re going. After 3 months (which should be soon), schedule a meeting with your boss to review where you' re at. Ask at that time about taking on more HR responsibilities. Even if you end up doing all Accounting, having that HR title is going to be very valuable and you don' t have to say what the percentages were on your resume. Hang in there, you can do it and you can make this work. As Dr. Phil says, there' s making the right decision and there' s making the decision that you did make, right. Make this one right. There' s actually a lot of potential where you are too. If they have no HR coordinator, and don' t know anything about it, you could carve out that niche over the next year and create the job you want. At least you could make a good shot at doing that. If it doesn' t work out, look elsewhere. If it does, bingo! | |
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