u/histtohrev

I'm just trying to get everybody experience.

We are a single income family and we do OK (I am currently working in HR) but I'm finishing my masters in theology right now and I start my first unit of CPE in a couple weeks. I have my eye on attending residency next fall God willing. I've been working to save up money to supplement the financial hit of residency for that year. My concern now is what comes next.

At what point do you start applying for full-time roles towards the end of residency? I've been keeping an eye on indeed to gauge the job market (I live in St. Louis and we have three big health networks here as well as several hospice companies), and the time between full-time jobs being posted seems to be measured in weeks. Part of me is concerned about leaving a stable full-time job for a role that I know is time limited, but to do the one off CPE units seems like quite a strain because in order to get my hours in for CPE for the next 24 weeks I'm basically gonna be working seven days a week between CPE and my job. Has anybody gotten a job offer from the location where you did your residency while you were still a resident?

I may lay Catholic so I don't have any other ministry or anything to rely on except for trying to get another HR job after residency if there's no full-time roles available. I'm just curious if anybody else has been in a similar situation. Thanks!

m trying to figure out if this is just a "me" issue or not. A better background...

This is my 5th job in Human Resources. Two of them were paper files only organizations and two were digital only. I've been at my current employer about 3 weeks. Admittedly, they are in a bit of a flux going from one HRIS to another. But they still have paper files, an HRIS, a separate payroll system, as well as in digital copies of employee files saved as PDFs on PC. Then we have separate spreadsheet tracking for almost everything. That includes badging and access, drivers license, and insurance and so on. So for example, if you provide a drivers license for your I-9, that drivers license ends up getting saved with your I-9, saved in your paper file, saved in your digital file, saved to the HRIS, and saved in the folder where drivers license and auto insurance goes. My manager, he seems very set in his ways. He's an older guy so I don't know if some of this is an old dog learning new tricks. I've spoken with the two other HR coordinators and they just have them mentality of this is how things are done here, but me only being a few weeks in, this all seems very different from what I've run into elsewhere. Everyone else in the department has been there for at least a year though so they may be well used to it.

I just feel like I spent half my time doing the same work three, four, five times. Inquired with him a handful of times about trying to become more efficient and moving to just using the HRIS and back up digital files, but I've been told that everything else needs to stay as is.

The system to me just seems extremely inefficient and a recipe for mistakes because of how much duplication there is with everything.

I'm just curious if anybody has run into situations like this and what some ways might be to try to streamline the process.