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How to become the

HR Business
Partner?
Simple guide for the most dicult (but most admired one)
HR Career Path

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Content

Common HR Career Paths

HR Business Partner: Skills and Competencies
How to become the HR Business Partner?
Dave Ulrichs HR Model: HR Business Partner

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Dave Ulrichs
HR Model
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Dave Ulrichs HR Model

The HR Business Partner is the HR Front Oce
employee, who acts as the sales person for
internal and external clients of Human
Resources. The HRBP deals with HR Back Oce
and HR Centers of Excellence.

The Administration Expert is the widely

recognized expert in the area of Human
Resources Management and runs eective HR
Processes.

David Ulrichs HR Model

HR Business
Partner

Change Agent

Administration
Expert

Employee
Champion

The Change Agent participates in the company

wide projects, which aect employees and
change the corporate culture. The Change Agent
leads the change management process.

The Employee Champion protects rights and

interests of employees in discussions with the
top management. HR introduces policies and
procedures, which build the attractive and fair
workplace for everyone.

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HR Model and HR Organization

HR Front Oce
David Ulrichs HR Model

HR Back Oce

HR Business
Partner

Change Agent

Administration
Expert

Employee
Champion

HR Front Oce
Centers of Excellence

HR Centers of
Excellence

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Common
HR Career Path
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Common HR Career Path

HR Back Oce
The most common beginning
for the career in Human
Resources.
The HR Back Oce oers a
wide range of administrative
job positions.
The new hire gets a quick
orientation in HR processes
and how they are
administered.
The jobs in back oce are a
solid basis and the employee
understands how HR
processes are linked and
connected.
The BO jobs gives a good
overview of the regulatory
and legislation framework.

HR Centers of
Excellence
HR CoEs design, develop and
manage HR Processes. They
design processes, which are
run by the HR Front Oce
and data are maintained by
the HR Back Oce.
HR CoEs oers jobs for
analysts, process specialists,
project specialists and
managers and managers.
HR CoE is a good place to
learn in-depth about HR
Processes and how to sell
them as the HR Business
Partner.

HR Front Oce
HR Front Oce is the unit,
which interacts with internal
and external clients of Human
Resources.
It generally oers two jobs:
HR Client Specialist and the
HR Business Partner.
The Client Specialist manages
the daily agenda of internal
clients; the HR Business
Partner manages the strategic
agenda with the top managers
and drives the strategic
agenda of Human Resources.

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Skills and Competencies:

HR Business Partner
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HR Business Partner: Skills and Competencies

Key Skills:

Key Competencies:

Business Acumen
Client Relationship Management Skills
Job Interviewing Skills
Organizational Development Skills
Assessment Skills
Communication Skills
Negotiation Skills
Project Management Skills
Change Management Skills

the business nancials, key gaps

Understanding
in the productivity and connecting the nancial
performance with employees and processes

thinking about the business of the

Strategic
internal client and ability to get a buy-in to make a
strategic shift

planning of activities to meet goals

Strategic
without putting the internal client into a danger
WIN-WIN solutions and making
Implementing
decision aecting the entire organization
simple and eective solutions for dicult
Finding
situations and avoiding them in the future
as the valuable and trustful partner for
Acting
employees

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How to become the

HR Business
Partner?
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How to become the HR Business Partner?

1)

Study general business management, nancial management and take

HR courses.

2)

Develop your networking skills. Being present online is a huge

advantage for your career in Human Resources.

3)

Do not be hungry. Take small steps and learn the basics. The HR
Business Partner has to understand the underlying ows in the
organization.

4)

Apply for the HR Back Oce job. Being the Administration expert is a
basis for the success in the future.

5)

Move to HR CoE. Try to rotate through several CoEs. Being skilled in

Talent Acquisition and Compensation&Benets will add value to your
internal clients. Manage projects. Start with smaller internal HR projects
and you can manage huge HR Programs for the entire organization.

6)

Finally, apply for the HR Client Support position. Become skilled in the
client management and watch senior HR Business Partners how they
manage the relationship. Look how they manage strategic agenda.

7)

Apply for the HR Business Partner job.

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