In response to a question about upward mobility in HR management, HR career coach Martin Yate offers some advice. Sometimes, in order to get the experience necessary to lead a Human Resources department, an HR professional has to move backward to move foreward.

Yate urges the writer to seek out a job for which she is at least 70% qualified, with the remaining 30% of the job description contributing to skill sets that might qualify her for a future manegerial role.

Yate emphasizes that an "office manager with limited HR duties" might well achieve their goal of a job in management, but the process would be more likely to succeed in 2 or 3 steps, rather than 1. Identifying those steps and commiting to the process will show professionals the way forward in HR.

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