Kick start your HR career: For early to mid-career HR professionals

About this event

An event dedicated to helping early to mid-career professionals in HR

New term, new beginnings.

September is a time of new beginnings. We are excited to kick off the new term, new academic year with an event dedicated to helping early to mid-career professionals in HR.

We will look at:

· Starting out in HR

· How to get over the ‘No previous HR experience’ scenario

· Growing your HR career

· The various HR Disciplines

· Is it better to be a Generalist or a Specialist?

AND MORE…

This event is designed to be interactive. It will take the form of a fireside chat and attendees will be able to ask questions. It will NOT be recorded.

About the speakers

Caroline Roberts

After an early career in radio production at the BBC, Caroline worked in a variety of leadership, learning and HR roles. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a BAFTA member, and qualified in mediation and psychometric assessment.

Caroline has led people functions in organisations in the public and private sector, including Fox International Channels, Zaha Hadid Architects, Visit Britain, the CBI and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. She is also an Associate Non-Executive Director for Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, where she is Wellbeing Guardian. Most recently she was Executive Director of People and Culture at Octavia, the housing, social care and charitable organisation founded by Octavia Hill, where she led EDI and culture programmes.

Mark Barnicoat

Mark is a seasoned HR recruiter with over 25 years experience in the HR search space. Originally from Cornwall, he co-founded London based agency Peeq in 2020, placing strategic HR professionals into growth businesses. Mark is known for his honest and direct approach, and leverages advanced tools and his vast network to maintain a 90% success rate for his clients.

Please note:

1. Webinar joining instructions will be sent to you again 1 day before the event, with a further reminder, 20 minutes prior to the event starting.
2. The session may be recorded and shared with people afterwards. Please bear this in mind and have your camera off if you do not wish for your image to be shared.
3. The chat function will be used for participants to engage with the webinar, so just be mindful of the login name you use and ensure you are happy for other people to see this.
4. For security reasons, it is requested that participants join the live session 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time and with the same name as registered on Eventbrite as not doing so may cause a delay or non-admittance to the event.
5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
6. Please note that refunds for CIPD Non-Member tickets will only be available until 7 days prior to the event, any cancelled tickets after this will not receive a refund.
7. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.