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How to become the HR Business Partner?Simple guide for the most difficult (but most admired one) HR Career Path

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Content• Dave Ulrich’s HR Model: HR Business Partner

• Common HR Career Paths

• HR Business Partner: Skills and Competencies

• How to become the HR Business Partner?

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Dave Ulrich’sHR Model

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Dave Ulrich’s HR Model

HR Business Partner

Change Agent

Administration Expert

Employee Champion

David Ulrich’s HR Model

The HR Business Partner is the HR Front Office employee, who acts as the sales person for

internal and external clients of Human Resources. The HRBP deals with HR Back Office

and HR Centers of Excellence.

The Change Agent participates in the company wide projects, which affect employees and

change the corporate culture. The Change Agent leads the change management process.

The Administration Expert is the widely recognized expert in the area of Human

Resources Management and runs effective HR Processes.

The Employee Champion protects rights and interests of employees in discussions with the top management. HR introduces policies and procedures, which build the attractive and fair

workplace for everyone.

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HR Model and HR Organization

HR Front Office

HR Business Partner

Change Agent

Administration Expert

Employee Champion

David Ulrich’s HR Model

HR Back Office

HR Front OfficeCenters of Excellence

HR Centers of Excellence

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CommonHR Career Path

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Common HR Career Path

HR Front OfficeHR Back Office

The most common beginning for the career in Human Resources.The HR Back Office offers a wide range of administrative job positions.The new hire gets a quick orientation in HR processes and how they are administered.The jobs in back office are a solid basis and the employee understands how HR processes are linked and connected.The BO jobs gives a good overview of the regulatory and legislation framework.

HR Centers of Excellence

HR CoEs design, develop and manage HR Processes. They design processes, which are run by the HR Front Office and data are maintained by the HR Back Office.HR CoEs offers jobs for analysts, process specialists, project specialists and managers and managers.HR CoE is a good place to learn in-depth about HR Processes and how to sell them as the HR Business Partner.

HR Front Office is the unit, which interacts with internal and external clients of Human Resources.It generally offers two jobs: HR Client Specialist and the HR Business Partner.The Client Specialist manages the daily agenda of internal clients; the HR Business Partner manages the strategic agenda with the top managers and drives the strategic agenda of Human Resources.

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Skills and Competencies:HR Business Partner

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HR Business Partner: Skills and Competencies

Key Skills:

• Business Acumen

• Client Relationship Management Skills

• Job Interviewing Skills

• Organizational Development Skills

• Assessment Skills

• Communication Skills

• Negotiation Skills

• Project Management Skills

• Change Management Skills

Key Competencies:

• Understanding the business financials, key gaps in the productivity and connecting the financial performance with employees and processes

• Strategic thinking about the business of the internal client and ability to get a buy-in to make a strategic shift

• Strategic planning of activities to meet goals without putting the internal client into a danger

• Implementing WIN-WIN solutions and making decision affecting the entire organization

• Finding simple and effective solutions for difficult situations and avoiding them in the future

• Acting as the valuable and trustful partner for employees

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How to become theHR Business

Partner?Saturday, August 17, 13

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How to become the HR Business Partner?

1) Study general business management, financial management and take HR courses.

2) Develop your networking skills. Being present online is a huge advantage for your career in Human Resources.

3) Do not be hungry. Take small steps and learn the basics. The HR Business Partner has to understand the underlying flows in the organization.

4) Apply for the HR Back Office job. Being the Administration expert is a basis for the success in the future.

5) Move to HR CoE. Try to rotate through several CoEs. Being skilled in Talent Acquisition and Compensation&Benefits will add value to your internal clients. Manage projects. Start with smaller internal HR projects and you can manage huge HR Programs for the entire organization.

6) Finally, apply for the HR Client Support position. Become skilled in the client management and watch senior HR Business Partners how they manage the relationship. Look how they manage strategic agenda.

7) Apply for the HR Business Partner job.

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