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I can search for some common certifications that employers often look for in HR candidates, if you'd like.
Don't do it...it's a trap and it is not free advice. Stay away from anyone offering ro "help" you for a fee or a subscription.
I would encourage you to write your résumé with human resources in mind. Talk about all the skills that you developed and the technologies you know how to use and then have a detailed cover letter about how you’ve been doing HR in a non-HR role. Hit the keywords and then explain the gaps.
Solid advice, thank you so much. I've redesigned my resume and discussed my transition in my cover letter. I might change my cover letter a bit to talk more about my work in HR without the title to further discuss.
To break into HR, you need to tell your story right. First, treat your résumé like you're already in HR—highlight the technologies and skills you've used that are clearly Human Resources tasks. Then, your cover letter is where you connect the dots: explain how you've secretly been doing HR work in your non-HR role all along. Just make sure you sprinkle in those key HR job words, and you can then politely address the lack of a degree or cert.
That's a very common and frustrating experience hitting the wall of automatic rejections when you know your skills are a perfect fit! It sounds like we need to optimize your resume for the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) that often screen out candidates before a human ever sees them.
What attracted you to transition to H.R.? Good for you...we need good people!
Not sure how I missed this, it didn't give a notification.
Throughout my years in general operations management, particularly in the last 7, I rapidly gained progressive full cycle HR responsibilities. I found that I do my best work in the HR realm, particularly Employee Relations and strategic business partnering. I love working through performance issues with people, finding solutions, and seeing them succeed as a result, or, releasing them to find a better fit.
I am still job searching and finding it hard to break through into an HR specific role. Applying for generalist and ER specialist roles with resume and cover letters redesigned. I've applied, and studying for, my PHR and added that to resumes, so hopefully that will help.