Human Resources Administration Assistant
What the work is
Maintains and updates personnel records, such as information on transfers and promotions, employee leave taken and accumulated, salaries, superannuation, taxation, qualifications and training.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Updates information on leave taken and accumulated, employment history, salaries, superannuation, taxation, qualifications and training
- Creates records for newly appointed workers and checks records for completeness
- Processes applications for employment and promotions, and advises applicants of results
- Receives and answers enquiries about employment entitlements and conditions
- Sends out announcements of job openings and job examinations
- Issues job application forms
- Compiles data from personnel records and prepares reports
- Stores and retrieves personnel records and files on request
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the rostering and staff records office of a fictional aged care home that runs every day of the year. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A last-minute gap is covered and the residents never notice anything was wrong
- A new starter's records are complete before their first shift, and they feel welcomed
- A roster that is fair, follows the agreement and makes sense to everyone who reads it
Hard days
- A sick call at 5am when the day is already thin
- Two people who both need the same weekend off, and only one can have it
- Being asked to bend the roster rules by someone more senior than you
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 599231, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.