HR manager

As an HR manager, your responsibility revolves around the human capital in your company. That means you match the company's workers to the right tasks based on their skills and competencies. The main responsibilities of an HR manager include:

• Recruitment and selection: you work with various stakeholders to fill your employer's business vacancies. Your primary role is to ensure internal hiring policies are adhered to and that the company complies with regulations.
• Handling compensation and administrative tasks: as an HR manager, your administrative tasks include scheduling employees, running payroll and storing employee records. When scheduling employees, you allocate equal work hours based on job groups and ensure everyone gets time off and adequate breaks at regular intervals. Keeping records and maintaining employee files also ensures compliance with the regulations. You ensure employees receive salaries on time and that the company meets the mandated benefits for workers. For instance, in Canada, you ensure the company contributes to the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) for their employees.
• Ensuring health and safety: HR managers ensure employees have all the necessary safety equipment to complete their tasks. By complying with work environments' health and safety standards, you minimize risks from workplace accidents. Ensuring workplace safety also reduces turnover and productivity problems.
• Updating human resources software: as an HR manager, your tasks include administrative duties like updating HR software and analyzing the data generated. You use human resources software to manage payroll and ensure automated employee scheduling or performance tracking.
• Supervising employee training and development: as an HR manager, it is crucial to ensure employees have the necessary skills to advance in their careers. Your job is to plan and ensure the execution of professional development programs.

As an HR manager, you have a diverse range of employers to choose from in your career. You can work in government offices, recruiting and managing employees for government institutions. HR manager opportunities are available in professional, scientific and technical consultancy firms. Most manufacturing firms also need HR managers to handle labour relations and safety issues.

Regardless of your industry, most of your roles are office-based with minimal off-site duties, like attending conferences and training workshops. As an HR manager, you can work from home or complete many of your tasks remotely. Teleworking is made possible with the increased adoption of HR management technologies.

Depending on the industry, you work alongside communications managers, operations managers and project managers. You also rely on accountants, recruiters and payroll administrators to perform your duties. You work with production managers and production supervisors to determine the workforce needs in production departments.

As an HR manager, your typical workday begins at 9 am and ends at 5 pm. If you have deadlines or some work to catch up on, your schedule might extend to evenings and weekends, resulting in a few overtime hours. You may also attend company events or parties at night. Most HR manager positions are full-time, but getting a part-time or remote working HR job is possible. Your HR manager job also involves travelling to organize training and development workshops or attend conferences. Unless you work for a multinational company, overseas travel is rare.

HR managers have significant influence at the leadership table due to their crucial contributions to achieving business goals. When you are an HR manager, you have a promising career path in higher managerial positions if you gain the required skills and expertise, similar to the role of an HR business partner. From an HR manager position, you can become an HR director, responsible for supervising the implementation of human resources policies. You can also become the Vice President (VP) or chief human resource officer in an organization, where you work alongside top-level executives to develop HR policies that affect the company. An HR manager role also allows you to specialize and become a consultant in labour relations, payroll, recruitment, and diversity and inclusion.

Working with Randstad offers you a range of benefits.

• Always a contact person you can fall back on and ask for help from
• Many training opportunities
• A range of jobs in your area

As an HR manager, you lead and direct the functions of the human resources department. Your duties include hiring and interviewing staff, conducting administrative duties, and enforcing company policies and practices.

As an HR manager, you are in charge of five main duties: talent management, compensation and employee benefits, compliance, workplace safety, and training and development. The human resources department juggles these five duties to ensure organizational structure and manage the employee life cycle.

Working as an HR manager is a promising career that attracts a good salary. The mean salary of an HR manager in Canada is $112,464 per year. The most experienced HR managers in Canada take home over $173,902 annually.

To be an effective HR manager, you require exceptional communication skills. Being a good listener helps you develop and maintain relationships with various stakeholders. You should also possess technical skills in order to manage computer systems and utilize HR software.

Yes. Human resources jobs are important in various industries, and HR professionals are crucial in matching people with the company's needs. Even with the advancement of technology, companies still rely on HR managers to build their human capital.

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