Browsing online for HR assistant jobs?
You can find a number of HR assistant vacancies on the Simply HR Jobs website, but in this guide, we take a look at exactly what the job involves on a day-by-day basis. Pursuing a career as an HR assistant will allow you to build up a high level of experience of HR practice, and offers excellent prospects for career progression to the role of HR manager or director.
Learn more about HR assistant jobs in the guide below.
HR Assistant Jobs: General Overview
The main work responsibilities of an HR Assistant job will include:
- Preparing HR reports for senior managers
- Assisting with recruitment strategies – screening applications, arranging interviews etc
- Developing and carrying out training strategies
- Logging and reporting employment issues
- Inputting and filing general HR data admin and paperwork
- Following up employment initiatives
- Ensuring health and safety regulation is being followed within the workplace
- Assisting with payroll
- Keeping track of changes in employment law and ensure all legislation is being adhered to
- Mediating in staff disputes and responding to complaints
- Assisting with change management procedures
HR Jobs: HR Assistant Salary Expectations
The average starting salary for an HR Assistant is between £18,000-£25,000 a year. However, after several years within an HR environment, a senior HR professional can command an annual salary of around £40,000-£75,000+ a year.
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Within any organisation, few jobs are as important as the role of HR Director. This high-profile senior position comes with a lot of responsibility and requires an excellent communicator.
You can find the latest HR director jobs on our website, but in this guide, we scrutinise a role that requires complete knowledge of the employment practice of an organisation.
Read on to learn more about the most senior of all HR jobs.
HR Jobs: HR Director Profile
After several years of experience within an HR environment, an HR director will be expected to demonstrate outstanding working knowledge of all areas of company policy and employment practice. The HR director will have ultimate responsibility for the following:
- Recruitment
- Employment law
- Health and Safety
- Discrimination and diversity
- Salary reviews and payroll disputes
- Training initiatives
- Staff morale
This role can change on a day-to-day basis, but generally you will perform a key role in ensuring communication and working practice is streamlined all the way through an organisation. This job can be high-pressured, so on occasion you may have to act as a mediator in order to settle employment and workplace disputes.
On a day-to-day basis, you will work in close conjunction with departmental managers to ensure HR initiatives are being followed. It’s crucial to have an excellent working knowledge of all aspects of employment law (and any forthcoming legislative changes) to succeed in this role.
In terms of salary, an HR director tends to earn around £30,000-£40,000 a year, although in large, international organisations, senior HR jobs can see a salary advertised well in excess of £50,000 per annum.
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