I’m going to keep this short (edit: I lied) but I’m happy to provide more info in the comments if anyone has specific questions
-I am in my early 20s in New Orleans
- I didn’t have the chance to go to college after highschool so no degree yet
- I have 4 years experience managing a call center / inside sales
-I am currently an HR professional as an assistant (of 3 months)
I’m loving the place I work and I’m crushing every project thrown at me. After my 2nd week, my director stopped giving me “assistant work” and started providing me more to do and more responsibility. I’m fully independent at 3 months with onboarding, data entry, benefits, payroll, I help with recruiting, event planning, anything and everything HR related.
The past few weeks I’ve been wondering what’s in store for me here because I’m hungry to learn and be a more valuable asset. I’m not super social and don’t love people, I network when necessary and I’m great at pretending- but I truly don’t love employee relations.
I love technology, systems, data, logistics, etc. In my spare time all I do is work with technology. I build computers in my spare time, set up servers for friends, I haven’t learned how to code yet but id love to. HRIS has interested me for a bit.
Seeing as I’m very very early on in my HR career with only 3 months under my belt, how much longer should I stick it out here as an assistant, and how can I transition into an HRIS opportunity? I was thinking about staying for a year before looking into anything else. Even if it isn’t a lateral transition, I think I’d love the opportunity to get into an assistant or coordinator role in HRIS and learn as much as I can. I’d have no idea where to even start looking, nor do I know when it would be appropriate, since my current employer treats me very well and I haven’t brought this up yet, but I do plan to within the coming month or two.
Thank you for any insight you guys can provide- I’m just a young person trying to navigate this corporate world on his own.