The Employment Opportunities Of A Human Resource Manager

Introduction This report aims to analyse the current employment opportunities of a Human Resource Manager. A human resource manager, as defined on businessdictionary.com, is an â€Å"Individual within an organization responsible for hiring new employees, supervising employee evaluations, mediation between employees and bosses as necessary, and general overseeing of the personnel department†. The report will contain an analysis of the current about market trends, an evaluation impact of external factors influencing work and career patterns, the analysis of advertising, recruitment and selection methods and the analysis of relevant professional standards and competences for both, the United Kingdom and Brunei Darussalam. 1. The current labour†¦show more content†¦Places are rated hard to fill due to responses such as recruiting migrant workers, hiring apprentices and upskilling the existing workforce which had a higher proportion of 16% in the public sector. The public secor has recently been leaning towards young graduates to fill in vacancies but may have a hard time attracting graduates as four out of ten employers have seen cuts in training budgets over past two years. Overall, CIPD predicts that the labour trend will continue to strengthen in last few months of 2015 and difficulties with recruitment will increase but moderately as employers aim to recruit graduates and train workers to aid the labour supply. 1.2 Brunei Darussalam Brunei Darussalam is a country located on the north- west coast of Borneo. The workforce (total of 204,800 in 2011) in Brunei Darussalam is heavily populated in the public sector (about three-quarters), mostly with locals. The employment rate of adults is 63.3%. Migrant workers mostly work in the private sector of about the same proportion as locals in the public sector. Jobs in the public sector are quite limited as a lot of people are applying to work in the government due to the fringe benefits, therefore, selection is quite tight due to limitations in places but in 2011, the unemployment rate in Brunei decreased from 9.3% to 6.9%. Some locals work in the private sector, temporarily, to wait out vacancies in the government sector which will contribute to unemployment. It is predicted