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As the Human Resource leader, your responsibilities range from directing the daily operations of the Human Resources Department, administrate HR policies, budgeting and supervise HR staff. In addition, your department will manage employee benefits, performance management, employee counseling, recruitment, hiring, orientation, training, worker’s compensation, employee health, meet compliance and HRIS programs. As HR Director, you act as the liaison to upper management and directly report to the President / CEO of most companies.
I’ve been working in HR for about 20 years. HR is a great field, but right now, it’s pretty flooded, so it’s tough to break in. With a BA in HR, you would start as entry level management, but there’s a large administrative component to it. Most people think that HR is mostly dealing with people, while in most cases, it’s less than half of the job. A lot of time is spent pushing paper or processing information (they never seem to tell you that in school). While you’re in school, try to get a part time/summer job or internship in an HR department, even in the school.
If you’re good, you can move up, but a lot will depend on the type of organization that you work for and how well they do in this economy. Don’t go get a master’s degree in the field until you’ve worked in it for a while and are sure that you like it. A master’s degree in another field can be just as useful (management, finance, industrial psychology, etc.) and can give you more flexibility. Good luck! For more info on the field, go to http://www.shrm.org