HR officer cover letter example
An HR cover letter should show the workforce you support, the casework you handle, one result (absence, turnover or time to hire) and your CIPD level. Write it as carefully as a policy: HR managers notice loose wording.
Fictional letter from Rachel Adeyinka, the applicant in the hr officer cv example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the HR Advisor post at Westbury Care Group. I have five years' HR experience in a 600-person logistics business across three sites, and I hold the CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management.
The post, the workforce you support and your CIPD level.
I support managers on about 30 absence, grievance and disciplinary cases a year, from planning the first meeting to drafting the outcome letter. When short-term absence was rising, I introduced return-to-work meetings at all three sites, and it fell from 4.8% to 3.6% in a year.
Casework from start to end, and one result you can measure.
I also run recruitment for about 120 hourly roles a year, including right-to-work checks and contracts, and I rewrote our absence and flexible working policies and trained 25 line managers on them. Recruiting and keeping care staff is a challenge I would like to work on.
Recruitment and policy, then why this organisation.
My CV is attached. Thank you for considering my application.
The CV and a polite close.