SA Board for People Practices hosts membership drive

Recent recognition of SABPP as an important professional body in the HR profession and statutory quality assurance body for HR learning includes:

• Minister of Higher Education and Training presented a recognition certificate by SAQA as a professional body in accordance with the NQF Act
  
• HR Insight to the State of the Nation Address
  
• Comments on HR implications on the Budget speech
  
• Represented HR profession in parliament
  
• Developed a SA-based HR Competency Model
  
• Celebrated 30 years as a professional body
  
• Accreditation of universities and colleges in SA
  
• Formed 24 alliances to advance HR profession
  
• Published papers about HR trends and issues
  
• Working on a project to launch HR standards and metrics in SA

SABPP's reputation is centred on being the voice for the HR profession; setting standards for HR ethics and professionalism; to register HR professionals; building HR knowledge and competency; and accrediting HR learning provision.

Benefits for SABPP members are as follows:

• Professional assessment of the professional level and SABPP membership certificate,
  
• Official professional post nominal titles for registered HR practitioners (HRT, HRA, HRP, CHRP, MHRP),
  
• Regular electronic HR profession newsletters - HR voice and fact sheets,
  
• Digital versions of three magazines: HR Future Magazine, Human Capital Review and Business Brief,
  
• Access to further discounts to attend seminars and conferences,
  
• Full access to participate in or influence national HR research, development and benchmarking projects,
  
• Access to the SABPP knowledge centre (library),
  
• Involvement in projects and committees, e.g. Learning, Growth and Development Initiative,
  
• Forums to voice concerns to be tabled collectively with relevant stakeholders,
  
• Participation in electronic or other discussion forums,
  
• Access opportunities for mentoring,
  
• Opportunities to provide inputs into HR curriculums at universities via the SABPP Higher Education committee,
  
• Upload of your professional designation on the National Learner's Records Database at SAQA,
  
• Access to information and the work of SABPP alliance partners (ASTD, HCI, EGN, COMENSA, ISPI etc.) to strengthen the HR profession,
  
• Registration fee is tax deductible where an individual consultant or self-employed professional pays the fee him/herself, and
  
• Networking opportunities at SABPP events.

"The statistical representation of our membership shows a drastic improvement in joining patterns and I would like to encourage HR professionals to join and take part in HR activities. You can also enhance the profession, and ensure that HR becomes an increasingly recognised and respected profession in accordance with the new SAQA policy on professional bodies. Moreover, collectively we can improve the value and status of HR in South Africa and beyond our borders," says Marius Meyer, CEO at SABPP.

Download and view SABPP 2013 statistical representation of membership.