It has been over five years since I joined HRchitect, and it is rewarding to reflect on my journey as an HCM Consultant. Here’s why I’ve come to truly love what I do.
In October 2021, I joined a company of about 30 people after years of working inside a large organization. I had a laptop, some online trainings, a new email address, and a Slack workspace full of people I hadn’t yet earned the right to annoy with questions.
That was it.
The culture shock of moving to a comparatively small organization hit me harder than I expected. Harder, honestly, than starting my first job out of college. At a big company, when you don’t know something, you walk down the hall. You knock on a door. You find the person who has done it before, and you ask. That safety net was gone. And I had to quickly realize that if things were going to get done, it would be because I found a way to get them done.
The most important skill I had to build wasn’t technical competency. It was learning to trust myself in the absence of a familiar system to lean on.
