I have the option of working in HR for a major company, but I have no experience in the field. What is to be expected on a daily basis in a position? I'm actually not sure what level it would be at yet.
I have the option of working in HR for a major company, but I have no experience in the field. What is to be expected on a daily basis in a position? I'm actually not sure what level it would be at yet.
Based on my experienced working in corporations, you'll be expected to be neither very human nor much of a resource.
I think it would be a sweet job. your responsibilities would just be people. But for the most part it would be people complaining. So if you like ppl....do it
I would take the opportunity if I was you. I work in HR for the government and its a splendid job. You don't do a darn thing! HR is sweeeet!
Your main qualification as an HR employee is to make every one else\'s job more of a hassle by initiating stupid \"team building\" exercises and expecting people to attend mandatory clinics while subsequently pushing them behind on the actual work that they have before them. I interned in HR at the US headquarters for a major company and all they did was make everyone else\'s job more difficult.
However, my internship was great. Hardly did anything and it looked great on my resume. So, if you muddying the water, which might actually be kind of fun if you make it to be, then go right ahead and take that position.
You don't know about HR until you have to axe 30% of your company. You get to buy the boxes for them to take their stuff, you get to arrange the security guards to hang out in the lobby and parking lot for 2 weeks so that no one gets killed, you get to deal with the folks who have to be escorted out of the building with their stuff. The fun and games end there.
HR is universally considered the scum of the business world, akin to what you need to scrape off your shoe.
Ditzes, dimwits, and other sorts who think they are worth WAY more than they are.
Generally good looking, though.
Oh--and they are often "contractors," i.e., the first to be let go, well, for anything.
HR is generally people who are pretty lazy, not entirely smart, and are really just in it for the paycheck.
In general, hr is a job that will be done by a computer in ten years.
I work for a fortune 100 company. Thought it not only hilarious and ironic when the decision was made to outsource our human resource dept. to India.
Hahaha. The looks on their faces were priceless....What? Us? But we're human reources!
HR is where a company puts all its incompetent staff they are afraid to fire. They figure they can do less damage there. It's a great job if you like counting fire extinguishers or if you are a Nosy Parker and like prying into your work colleagues private lives. Knowledge is power so if you are a gossiper you will become popular, but behind your back they will put the knife in.
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You don't know about HR until you have to axe 30% of your company. You get to buy the boxes for them to take their stuff, you get to arrange the security guards to hang out in the lobby and parking lot for 2 weeks so that no one gets killed, you get to deal with the folks who have to be escorted out of the building with their stuff. The fun and games end there.
Ha- i worked as an HR admin this summer in a branch of a major manufacturing company that was going out of business. My only boss left a month after I started, so i was completely on my own. I'm 19, have absolutely no experience, and was one of the only 3 females in a staff of 150+ middle aged divorced men. Great job though- not tough at all...but i did have to lay off 40 people in the first week with no assistance from the boss. Let's just say there were a lot of worker's comp injury reports that week...
Generally, I had forms to fill out, minor reports to do, and files to update, but other than that, it was just handling those minor crises that would arise during the day. I'd never make a career out of it, but it wasn't a horrible experience at all. You'd have to try hard to be bad at HR.
I told my son I would support financially him through college with two exceptions.
1. If he joined the ROTC or any like program
2. HR was his major.
He gradulate this coming spring in Poly Sci and business (double major).
I have done HR for 30 years. It's both good and bad. Lot's of folks see HR as a place to throw their garbage (problems). That's the way it can be at time.
It was also the place where I became fairly wealthy doing HR in a start-up.
HR people get pre-IPO stock too.
Besides, it's not the bottom of the barrel in corporations. Finance people and Lawyers are. LOL
You'll just have to experience it.
Human Roadblocks.