Personal development
# Be Payroll
Hazel RobinsonMScMCIPPMCIPDHRMMyGMPDDip Couns &Psych, associate director – HRReward&Wellbeing, at Brunel University London, talks about the role the CIPP has played in her personal development
Why did you become a member of the CIPP? I was appointed from a senior business partner role into Reward, Payroll and Wellbeing in 2018, and whilst I had experience in reward and payroll, I felt I needed support and a network to bring my skills up to date and to learn more best practice in the current payroll world. I was so lucky to come across the CIPP. I attended the CIPP’s 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition as a learning curve and to get to know more about what CIPP could provide for my career – and found a whole world of support, information, and collegiality. Since joining, I have found so much to help enable me and my team’s development, but more than that I have found friends and allies in enabling progress and success within the reward and payroll profession. How has this membership helped you in your career? The CIPP membership has opened doors to support and networking opportunities to help me find confidence in my ideas, as well as identify best practice that I have been able to implement to develop both my own career and what my team can offer my employer. The investment return has been phenomenal, and broadened my perspective on reward and payroll, seeing it as so much more than a function but a real strategic partner to an organisation. Can you describe in three words what your CIPP membership means to you? ● Support ● Empowerment ● Confidence-building What is/has been your favourite and most useful benefit of your membership, and why? Networking – I have found colleagues who work at similar institutions and been able to gain and learn so much. The conference (apart from being amazingly fun) really enables discussion and information sharing across networks.
What advice do you have for someone who is thinking of becoming a member with us? Don’t think twice about it. If you are looking for support, whether starting into your payroll career or as an experienced senior
professional, you will gain so much from your membership. It will open doors you did not even know were there, and provide opportunities to enhance your confidence, your career, and your enjoyment of our amazing profession n
Are you interested in joining the BePayroll campaign?
The CIPP launched the BePayroll campaign in May 2019 with the vision of representing payroll professionals and raising the profile of the payroll profession. We are always looking for more people to join the campaign and collaborate with us by sharing their experiences and achievements, as well as describing how the CIPP have helped further their life goals.
So if you are interested in taking part, contact us at marketing@cipp.org. uk , and share your story with the payroll world. Together we can bring the payroll profession to the forefront of the business world.
#BePayroll
Be Knowledgeable . Be Developed . Be Recognised . Be Supported . Be Connected .
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| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |
Issue 69 | April 2021
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