Hmm, hard one!

ok, the easy stuff first.  How to post your CV online without your company noticing? - do you have a computer and internet access at home?  I guess by the question you possibly don't.  In that case, find an internet cafe, take your CV on a disk and post it through something like hotmail or yahoo where you can get an email address very quickly.  (You will either then need to return to read your email unless you can find some privacy to read it at work - for responses)

Right - you want to move from what you're doing now to a different field.  Your boss presumably knows that you've passed your HR certificate - did it occur to him that you weren't just doing this for fun, but would probably want to move into HR when it was completed?  Is it worth discussing this with him?

Also, in the light of the fact that he'll be more States-based, thus reducing your duties, you should perhaps be talking to him anyway about what your job is going to be like in future (just suppose you didn't have your HR certificate!!!)

Obviously you need to be exploratory in any discussions, without being clear you are actually going to be leaving (You don't want to jeopardise an existing job) - however, if your boss is anyway decent, he will realise why you're starting to ask the questions, and this may indeed make it easier if you want to go for interviews - as long as he authorises the time away (you could use lunch time - extended a little? - leave earlier - arrive later - then you don't have to answer to anyone else about where you are.

That's all I can think of just now - no doubt everyone else will have their tuppenceworth of a say - keep us posted - as ever - with how you get on!

Jackie
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