Opportunity to retrain? HR maybe?

[Peppaismyhomegirl]

Hello. I am being made redundant and there is an opportunity for me to retrain as where I live has funding for education if you are facing redundancy.
Pre children- I was a retail manager. Managed large teams of people. After children I dropped down to part time sales assistant. I still assist the manager as we get on well, I enjoy doing it and I can help, this is out of goodwill tho no payment or anything.
I want out of retail. I'm thinking of going into HR as I enjoy working with people and getting the best out of team members whilst being fair. I am considering doing a computer and admin course and then working towards my cipd? Does anyone have any advice or information? I will need major catching up on computers and see applications needing knowledge on sage and office systems which I will need to start with. But do you enjoy your job in HR? Is it easy to fit in around the children? (No weekend work being a major issue for me) I am pg with my last child and I'm using this redundancy to start the process of getting myself prepared for full time work in 3 years time. Something for me.

There is a lot of problem-solving in the job, your original post made it sound as if you thought you'd be supporting the employees all the time against the employer - there are some bosses who need reining in but the majority of the work is the other way around in my experience.

Is there any way of getting hold of a copy of the training material that you have produced? I have been impressed when interviewing someone if they have brought a really good set of notes with them.

It would have to be a fairly large employer to have a training function, larger employers may also have a specific recruitment section - smaller companies you'll have to do it all. Have you thought about recruitment agency (working in one, rather than them looking for a job for you)? It would involved sales as well though.

I know you are not looking for an immediate role, but it may be worth looking at the larger employers in your area (Universities, production facilities, large call centres, NHS etc) to see what kind of training and recruitment they have/use to give you an idea of what is out there.

Sorry about the duplicate message there, it really wasn't worth saying twice