HR Assistant Jobs

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• Human Resources Assistant

Required or preferred licenses and certifications for HR Assistant positions.

The following top skills are often required or desired to land a HR Assistant position

• Administrative Skills
• Applicant Tracking System
• Background Checks
• Benefits Administration
• Business Correspondence
• Clerical
• Communication Skills
• Computer Skills
• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
• Customer Service
• Data Entry
• Employee Benefits
• Employee Recognition
• Employee Relations
• Employment Law
• Employment Verification
• Events
• Family And Medical Leave Act
• Filing
• Firing
• General Office Duties
• HR Policies & Procedures
• HR Systems
• Human Resources
• Human Resources (HR) Operations
• Human Resources Information System
• Human Resources Management
• I-9 Forms
• iManage
• Interview Scheduling
• Interviewing
• Job Fairs
• Leadership
• Leave of Absence
• Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word
• New Employee Orientation
• New Hire Paperwork
• New Hire Processing
• New Hire Training
• Offer Letters
• Onboarding
• Open Enrollment
• Organization
• Orientation
• Payroll
• Performance Reviews
• Policy Administration
• Reference Checks
• Scheduling
• Staff Supervision
• Staffing
• Talent Acquisition
• Taleo
• Telephone Skills
• Termination
• Training and Development
• Unemployment Claims

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Top hiring companies for HR Assistant positions

With the recent economic downturn, many job seekers at least considered a position in HR and many took the leap and changed their career focus altogether. The reason for this is because HR is seen as one of the more recession-proof occupations. The conventional wisdom is simple: companies need to hire, so therefore they need an HR professional.

HR professionals may make easy targets, but in reality they're just like the rest of us: overworked, undercompensated, and doing the best they can with the resources at their disposal.

HR is at a crossroads. For many years now the profession has existed with a fundamental dichotomy between employee advocate (functioning as a fair/impartial third-party ombudsman) vs. business leader (serving the needs of the company and executing initiatives such as RIFs or outplacements that seem to clash directly with the employee advocacy role).