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🤔 Considering a move from TA to Total Rewards – what should I do?
I’ve been in Talent Acquisition for most of my career, but the thought of transitioning to Total Rewards has been on my mind lately. My boss sees potential in me and wants me to take on a new role in compensation and benefits. However, I’m feeling apprehensive for a few reasons:
– I lack experience in Total Rewards
– I’m not confident in my number-crunching skills
– I enjoy the relationship-building aspect of TA
Should I take this opportunity to gain experience, even if it means stepping out of my comfort zone? Or should I stay in my current role and wait for another opportunity?
Any advice or thoughts on how to approach this situation would be greatly appreciated! 🤝
Possible solution:
– Consider taking on the new role in Total Rewards to gain valuable experience and diversify your skill set
– Seek out training or mentorship to help build your confidence in areas where you feel less skilled.
– Communicate your concerns and goals with your boss to ensure you have the necessary support and resources to succeed in the new role.
You’ve been wanting to move out of TA and have been unhappy with it for the past 5 years. I don’t see how you’d be pigeon-hole in TR anymore than in TA. I’d take it.
If you go to TR you expand knowledge needed for HRBP. Having TA and TR will set you up well for a BP role. Unless you want to go to org develop and gain that exposure which would also help. Many hrbps at my company go in both directions for hrbp and TR.
Most of our BPs have no Comp experience and it drives me crazy. It’s good your boss thinks you should go for this. I was put in Comp many years ago in a similar situation and it was the best move ever. The numbers will hopefully come to you, but there’s plenty of work in TR that uses other skill sets as well.
Absolutely no question about it
Do it
Take it! As a BP, having comp and ben experience is super helpful. If you are good at excel, that will help with numbers, if you’re not, check out Miss Excel’s free courses and plan to YouTube to learn for free. Honestly I feel like once I finally started understanding comp (I worked really closely with my prior comp team), I understood my role better. I also helped with onboarding, TA, and benefits in my first HR job, all of which are helpful now.
I would take it. There will always be demand and need for these roles. It’ll really strengthen out your wheel house. I took a few years in LOA/Benefits and it’s made me a much stronger and well rounded HR professional.
I went from TA to Comp and I’m so grateful I did. You’ll learn as you go, learn excel and take good notes. Comp is a great career in itself and is in demand, it’s also great experience to round you out at a future HRBP.
I’m in Comp and I still like to use a calculator to check what I should tip at restaurants. Some people can do numbers really quick in their head, and that is not me. I like to see this stuff on paper.
You’re not doing complicated math in Comp, trust me. It’s about being equitable and consistent in your philosophy and approach. You’ll probably want to get comfortable with spreadsheets, but no one is giving you math tests when you’re in Comp.
Total rewards is a great opportunity. I’ve been in TR for years and it’s the best.
If you like Total Rewards, absolutely. It’s the ‘golden child’ of HR right now because comp is such an important topic for organizations. Benefits was the hot thing back when covid happened and organizations were coping with the new norm, but now that things have settled down, it is again the ‘neglected child’ and comp is again at the forefront.
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