Need a job? Why not HR?
I suppose its a natural inclination, but recruiters looking for a careerpath might want to think about HR. Since you have people skills, you’re already over halfway there. Something to think about…
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In the process of finding a job, almost everyone’s first point of contact with a company is its human resources department. Resumes are sent to their attention, interviews are scheduled through them, and a large part of the hiring process — from the first call to the offer letter — is managed by them. And after being on a first-name basis with everyone in the HR department for months, most employees have almost no interaction with them until it’s time for the perfunctory exit interview. Unless of course, there’s a problem such as a conflict with a supervisor or colleague, issues of harassment or improper conduct in the workplace or a smaller-than-hoped-for raise or bonus. In fact, human resources professionals play a vital role in how well (or poorly) a company functions, even if most of their work is behind the scenes. They perform an almost unfathomably large range of tasks, including managing diversity initiatives, resolving interpersonal work-related conflicts and managing compensation and benefits issues. As a result, HR jobs can be some of the most challenging and diverse in the corporate world.
“One of the reasons the profession is so exciting is because it’s so varied. You can be a generalist, which means you handle every aspect of the employee relationship from designing discipline systems to analyzing future needs based on where the company wants to go with recruitment and hiring,” says Danika Davis, CEO of the Northern California HR Association, a professional organization composed of 3,500 HR professionals.
Even though most of us think of HR experts only when it comes to hiring and 401(k) contributions, HR is not all staring at resumes and dealing with the dotting of i’s and crossing of t’s on employee benefits paperwork. “One of the things an HR specialist spends their time on is converting the strategy of an organization into action through people,” says Davis.
Source: SFGate
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