job help

[smilie]

I am not sure what kind of job I should be doing or chasing? I am good at working with people and have always had jobs in hospitality, I like to do alot of hands on work, or be around to know what is going on. some people have said that I would be good at some sort of human resourses job? please help, a little confused

[apricot]

Why do people always assume you would be good at HR if you are good at working with people? HR professionals must be able to discipline and sack people as well as show a sensitive side when necessary. It's no soft option, are you tough enough?

[TommyC]

Make an appointment to see an independent Careers advice counsellor - find them in the telephone directory. All legitimate advisors thses days will ask you to to sit a series of short psychometric tests, to discover your basic academic skills and shortages, and your strongest personality traits, both good and bad. They will then help you to start looking at options for careers which match strongly against your personal results. Psychometric testing/career counselling is now an established professional business in its own right, and it's well worth the one-off expense of time and a little money if you really don't have any idea what you want, or would feel happiest doing. And for what it's worth, virtually all the HR people I've ever known in every company I've worked for have been harsh, unreasonable, insensitive, company lapdogs, with no interest in anything except hanging on to their own talentless, disinterested, autocratic paper-shuffling jobs. But maybe that's just me..!! :o)