I am early 40s. I was made redundant from a well paid, part time senior management position last year when the company was taken over and moved overseas. It was a very specialist field and the only company of its type in this country.
My industry knowledge is now redundant and I have no professional qualifications. My most transferable skill is people management and dealing with HR type issues, as a manager guided by an external HR consultancy. It was an area where I had a natural aptitude and had a very good track record of understanding the issues and resolving situations without drama. As a manager of 50+ over 15 years I was involved in disciplinary action, maternity rights, return to work issues and flexible working, disability issues etc. It is this area that interests me - I'm not at all interested in training or recruitment.
I really want to build a new career and feel as energetic and motivated as when I left uni but I now have 3 small children and still 10 years before the youngest leaves primary school. I can use the redundancy payment to fund CIPD MSC study but realistically what are my career prospects with this and my former experience ?
Does anyone have any advice ? Am I too old to become a senior professional in this field ? I am SE based.
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Realistic potential of career in HR if retraining - any HR professionals around?
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beingsuper · 03/09/2013 14:36
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