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The CIPD Professional Map
The CIPD Professional Map is available to all CIPD members and helps you to understand what level of experience you have within HR and what you need to learn or demon straight to advance your career.
It is made up of 10 professional areas or specialism's Insight, strategy and solution | Leading HR | Service delivery and information | Organisational design | Organisational development | Resourcing and talent planning | Learning and talent development | Performance and reward | Employee engagement | Employee relations | | |

Within the Map there are 2 core areas that relate to all HR professional at all levels of their career, location and role.
1, Insight, strategy and solution -
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Email Advantages | Email Disadvantages | Quick delivery of information | Less social contact with people | Convenient | Less hand writing practice | Send able to lots of contact or groups at once | Can be bad for eyes due to computer screen focusing | No limit to message size | Messages can be misinterpreted | Attach large documents or attachments at the click of a button | Computer virus can spread easily from emails | No paper - environmentally friendly | Easy to make a typing error | Little cost | Easy to send to the wrong person by mistake | | Access to pc and internet required | | Privacy as easily forwarded on and could be intercepted by another (IT department) | | Email may not be delivered due to size or spam filters |

Telephone Advantages | Telephone Disadvantages | It help to build relationships | Disbelief or dissatisfaction can be picked up easily by hearing the tone and pitch of the persons voice. | It instant communication and has no distance limitations on time | When on the phone you have to think and react fast to questions or objections | In person conversations can be more private | personality can affect judgement of communication | You can conference more than one person in at a time and have a three way conversation or group discussion. | In personal | It can be recorded for verification or training