Since the pandemic hit, my role as a healthcare operations and leadership development focused specialist has moved quickly into championing diversity, equity, and inclusion toolkit creation over the past few years and now seems to be all about emotional well-being. I’ve witnessed a huge shift in the organizational matrix as HR also re-adjusts their focus.
While doing research around trends in HR for the next few years, I found an interesting article from Harvard Business Review about jobs around emotional well-being and other organizational roles. I’ve pulled a bit of content and an image that summarizes the 21 HR jobs of the future. The link to this article is at the bottom of this post. I encourage you to read the full article, especially if you are in the world of HR. Although the focus is ‘future’, I found quite a few jobs that matched the job titles referenced below.
Summary (from Harvard Business Review): The Cognizant Center for Future of Work and Future Workplace jointly embarked on a nine-month initiative to determine exactly what the future of HR will look like. They brought together a network of nearly 100 CHROs, CLOs, and VP’s of talent and workforce transformation to envision how HR’s role might evolve over the next 10 years. The result was the conception of over 21 new HR jobs, including detailed responsibilities and skills needed to succeed in each role. While some of the roles are entirely new positions, others are new responsibilities that are becoming increasingly important. All 21 jobs embody five core themes: individual and organizational resilience; organizational trust and safety; creativity and innovation; data literacy; human-machine partnerships
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