Hi Paddy

I opened up the Career Forum to find that Roundtuit had "Reported" another spam posting (though that appears to have already been taken down).

Then I opened your lengthy, single paragraph posting and wondered whether this was the work of AI, so I checked your profile to make sure you are not a bot.

Then I looked at your posting history to find posts which were constructed WITH paragraphs and concluded that you CAN write in easy to understand text.

So, my first advice is to agree with your suggestion that perhaps you should "calm down".

Next, one question you should ask is whether you actually want a job with a title such as Director or Health of Health and Safety. The immediate implication of the title is that doing H&S is down to the Safety Bod, rather than being owned as an integral part of the job function from Board level to shop floor.

Now, if you want to be the person who acts as the Safety Policeman and issues yellow cards to those who fail to comply with some rule and follow that up with dismissal for persistent offending, then may be that title is for you.

In contrast if you want to be the trusted Adviser, then such a title should perhaps be altered so that it implies that you might be responsible for managing an H&S (or perhaps HSE or HSEQ etc) team, but not so as to be the fall guy when line management fail to deliver.

Next, promotion internally or by changing job is about a mix of skills, knowledge and experience and much more. Certainly not just about accruing yet more qualifications whether directly H&S or broader.

So, my advice is to take stock of your career to date and think about ways to further what you do.

That could be about expanding the breadth of your role with an existing employer, looking at other sectors to get a better mix of understanding and many more options.

My last employer had a rule for its Corporate CVs. Each item setting out someone's experience should be completed with some words about the Value that the person had Added to what was being done to help the TEAM deliver.

So, may be, time to look at your CV, check each job and think. "in what way did I add value when doing that?"

By now you should be used to doing "reflective accounts" for your CPD record. Why not apply a similar process to look at how your career has moved forward, which, in turn, would let you think about options for the future.

Edited by user 04 June 2024 14:38:58(UTC)  | Reason: Typo