Question

If you are a career changer, analyze how you would go about reframing your current résumé to best showcase your skills and experience. For this discussion, answer the following questions: How does your résumé show real examples of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) behavioral competencies? How does your résumé show real examples of SHRM technical competencies (people, organization, workplace, and strategy)? How does your résumé leverage past managerial or leadership experience? How does your résumé leverage organizations and IT skills that support HR responsibilities in the workplace? How does your résumé reflect your interest in the field of HR? How does your résumé reflect a commitment to professional development?

Answer 1

Ans 1: Real examples of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) behavioral competencies

Below are some of the competencies available for SHRM against which one can mention the examples of the category in their resume.

1. Leadership: Under this category one can mention the initiatives taken and contributed across organization like diversity inclusion at workplace, inclusion of specially abled persons across organization.
2. Ethical Practices: Under this section one mention spoc for company’s ethical practices monitoring committee.
3. Communication: Under this category one can mention experience to conduct steering meetings, stakeholder coordination.
4. HR expertise: Under this section one can mention the qualification, skillsets like negotiation, communication, best practices knowledge and principle expertise related to human resource management.
5. Critical Evaluation: Under this section one can mention the details of successfully conducted performance appraisal cycle with maintaining bell curve for the organization.
6. Relationship Management: In this category one can mention the experience of dealing various department across organizations like mobility, recruitment, resource management group.
7. Business Acumen: In this line one can mention the experience of framing feedback form for leaving, working and joining employee to understand his view which helped in framing organization’s policy.

Ans 2: Technical competencies to mention in the resume:

1. Experience of implementation of central human resource management tool like Successfactor, Workday and Employee Central.
2. Functional knowledge of HR process like Onboarding, Offboarding, Organisation pyramid optimization.

Ans 3: Managerial and leadership experience:

1. Experience that shows reduction in organizations attrition rate by implementing quarterly promotion cycle for ABC which results in attrition rate to lower by 10% for the annual cycle.
2. Experience that highlights managing people’s issue in particular BU of strength 500 people.
3. Experience of generating talents for any specific practices like SAP, JAVA, Oracle, .Net etc

Ans 4: Experience of IT skill

1. Experience of workday, successfactor, EmployeeCentral

Ans 5: Reflecting interest in HR

1. Policies implemented in the organization like fun at work, introducing library in the organization, implementing flexi dress code policies etc.

Ans 6: Professional Development inclusion

1. Master qualification in the HR
2. Completion of trainings and certifications in the field of HR
3. Membership of the globally accepted firms