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HR and Recruitment Administrator

Support recruitment, onboarding, employee records and HR processes.

  • Duration10 weeksat 8 to 10 hours a week
  • LevelEntry-levelPeople
  • AccessStart freeFull pathway in NIBS Plus
  • Workplace Lab7 tasksReal work, assessed
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7 Workplace Lab tasksReal work, assessed

What you'll do every day

  • Administer recruitment from advert to appointment
  • Onboard new employees and set up their records
  • Maintain personnel files to an auditable standard
  • Administer leave, attendance and HR forms
  • Support skills development and workplace skills plan administration
  • Handle employee queries and confidential information

Skills you'll build

5 skills, each with its own courses and the other careers that use it.

Tools you'll use

  • HR systems
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Job boards and applicant tracking

Named as the tools the job uses. NIBS claims no relationship with any vendor.

Your pathway, step by step

10 weeks, at your own pace. Start free; NIBS Plus opens the full pathway and the Workplace Lab.

  1. Foundation Digital Workplace Foundation: the systems, files and communication every office runs on.
  2. Skill Courses The skills this role needs, one short course at a time.
  3. Workplace Lab 7 practical tasks in the software the job uses.
  4. Portfolio The documents, spreadsheets and records you produced, kept as evidence.
  5. NIBS Credential Assessed against the NIBS standard and recorded on your Skills Passport.
  6. Professional Recognition SABPP: what membership means and how a designation works.
  7. Formal Progression The Office Administrator occupational qualification, where it is offered.

The Role Pathway that teaches this career

Skill Courses that also cover this role

Workplace Lab: the 7 tasks

Your simulated employer sends the brief and the files. You do the work in the real software; a facilitator assesses it against the NIBS standard.

  1. 1 Write and place a job advert from a job profile Brief, files, submission, feedback
  2. 2 Shortlist a set of applications against the criteria Brief, files, submission, feedback
  3. 3 Schedule interviews and prepare the interview pack Brief, files, submission, feedback
  4. 4 Onboard a new employee with a complete file Brief, files, submission, feedback
  5. 5 Process a month of leave and attendance Brief, files, submission, feedback
  6. 6 Prepare the training records for a skills development submission Brief, files, submission, feedback
  7. 7 Respond to a data subject request for an employee file Brief, files, submission, feedback
How the Workplace Lab works

Where it leads

Job titles employers use for this work.

  • HR Administrator
  • Recruitment Administrator
  • HR Assistant
  • People Operations Assistant

Vacancies, learnerships and internships are posted in NIBS Campus as they come. NIBS does not guarantee placement.

Professional recognition

Learning can lead to a profession. Here is what that means for this career.

SABPP

South African Board for People Practices

Human resources and people practices

Why join
Professional registration in HR, a recognised standard of practice, continuing professional development and a ladder of professional levels to grow through.
Membership
Registration considers your qualification, level of work and experience; an RPL route exists for people who do not meet the standard route.
Possible designation
HR Technician and the SABPP levels above it, on SABPP's requirements
Recognition of prior learning
SABPP publishes an RPL route

CPD: CPD recognition subject to approval. SABPP runs a CPD provider system; NIBS is not an accredited provider. Relationship: Relevant professional body. NIBS has no partnership with it and holds no CPD approval from it. Membership is between you and the body, on its own requirements.

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Formal progression

Where a formal qualification is offered, this career leads toward it. A separate programme with its own registration, assessment and fees, never included in NIBS Plus.

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