The Tea and Sympathy Department comes of age!
The HR skills balance that professional services employers look to include:
- an ability to think strategically, whilst also able to manage operational issues until the processes and priorities have been identified;
- solid analytical capability;
- CIPD qualified;
- possess strong leadership and teamwork experience; and
- good communicators who inspire trust and confidence combined with a 'can do' attitude.
A new corporate structure
Regardless of whether a firm is going through a merger, acquisition, upsizing or downsizing, or just looking for an HR Manager for the first time, all these firms have one thing in common: they are starting to understand the value that the HR function can add.
The structure and size of the HR team, will fluctuate according to the size of the firm, but it is clear that with a large percentage of operational work moving towards those outside the HR function, that there isn't going to be the requirement for a huge HR team. The HR employees will be few in number, but very much specialist advisors.
