I am planning to to Bachelor's in HR from Swinburne. Just wondering if anyone you know directly or indirectly has completed HR graduation ? If yes what are the job prospects in general after a HR degree? PS: I am a mature age student who has struggled to get a decently paying job after moving to Australia.
What Are The Prospects for HR Job after Graduation?
misguided on 28/01/2019 - 17:44
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1. Salesy nature
2. Match maker
3. Communication skills
4. Positivity
5. IT literate
6. A bit bonkersFrom my dealings the last point is the most important.
OP why are you choosing this degree if you don't really know what job you want do with it (and its prospects) afterwards?
To be fair I need an office based role ideally in the city and hopefully with average pay. HR jobs seems to be providing me that and have decent number of openings as well. Hence the choice.
Sorry, if you think this is the case why the validation post?
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I graduated with a BCom majoring in Marketing and HR, and have been working in HR for the past 5 years. To be completely honest, I don't think you need a Bachelors in HR to get a job in HR. I actually think a Diploma would be more beneficial from a practical perspective, as it provides for a lot more 'real life' learning.
Job prospects are pretty good if you are eager to learn. I started off as an Administrator, then onto being a HR Generalist and am currently in a Comp and Ben role.
I am just scared to do a diploma (already been 5 years in the country with only jobs which are good for day to day but not really career related roles).When I look at seek there are either graduate positions( very few) or roles that require previous experience in HR field. Hence graduation seems to be my only option at the moment.
Honestly, I've recruited for a number of HR roles in the past and tertiary qualifications genuinely are not the most desired quality for a HR professional. Speaking from personal experience I don't feel like my Bachelor degree has really helped in my career so far, but to each their own! If you feel that completing the degree will help you achieve what you want then you should go for it. However, if I were you I'd really have a long hard think about what exactly it is about HR that is pulling you towards that career. If it's just the money/stability aspect, I would question whether that is enough for you to stick with it long term. I know I myself have become less and less tolerant of people as a whole - not sure if it's just ageing or the job but I would suspect that work has a lot to do with it!
It is just aging.
But interestingly it is funny how HR people in recruitment are very precious about higher education being the baseline yet in HR itself doesn't seem to be a huge requirement. Reflects interestingly on the people that hold the keys to the job market so to speak.
@serpserpserp: Not really - it's just reality. Specialised roles will require tertiary qualifications much more than HR roles which is much more experience/practical based (imo).
As long as there are people in a company there is a need for HR. There is a diverse range of roles ranging from purely administrative to purely strategic. Don’t study a degree just for job prospects - study it because its something you have a valid long term interest in. If you’re mature age - what other jobs, skills and experiences do you have? Can you leverage all those experiences into a particular job role? When I hire someone I care more about what they’ve done with their lives and their attitude than any piece of paper. A diploma is all you need to get tour foot in the door, do further study when your company pays you for it.
All I really have is some retails experience and childcare experience. I really hate both as they involve being on your feet the whole day and lots of physical work. This is the reason I want to move to a office job.
Just a Bachelors and zero experience will mean you won't get a HR job either.
It shouldn’t be that hard to find a desk bound job. You certainly dont need to go to uni to find one. Perhaps look at roles in accounts receivable or payable? Plenty of jobs there, all desk bound.
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I'm not sure if you are aware of the Australian Human Resource Institute but you might find it worthwhile to spend a bit of time looking over their website. They discuss a variety of courses and what being an accredited HR professional means.
Your motivation seems to be more about whats is more available like low hanging fruit, rather than what you think you are good at.
ALot of HR ppl I work with, have very good communication and interpersonal skills. Apart from interviewing new recruits to a company, you will have to chair confidential tasks like discrimination, or employee A fighting with employee B. Therefore leadership is required with good communication. I would practice this on top of the degree to stand out from the others.I agree, motivation is at an all time low at the moment, so really looking for a office job which is sort of stable.
Not to put a dampener on your plan, but moving into a completely new field with zero experience will be impossible if you're showing this level of lack of motivation. No one in HR is going to want to recruit someone who's in it just for "stability and so I don't have to be on my feet". (As an aside, the fact you can't see this bodes badly already for your chances in HR…)
partially agree to your point here :)I really need to work on my motivation first. But sin't the whole point of doing a bachelor is to get into field with no prior experience ? Aren't graduate expected to have no experience only bookish knowledge?
Aren't graduate expected to have no experience only bookish knowledge?
You'd think so, but no - most companies want to see some internships or other experience at the very least, something to demonstrate motivation haha.
Doing the Bachelors would give you opportunities to network with potential recruiters and internship opportunities through the uni's careers office, but you can also get those without the cost and time of the actual degree, if you called/asked around.
@HighAndDry: I have heard this from some people, but unfortunately haven't been able to find any such networking opportunities which is mostly down to my networking skills not being great in the first place :(
I need an office based role ideally in the city and hopefully with average pay.
As these are seemingly your only requirements, I would honestly try and find a field that either A) you'd be more passionate about (even if just at the outset), or B) line up more with your strengths.
HR is a lot of people and soft skills - and "faking" passion and enthusiasm where there might be none. Since neither seem to be part of your strengths, I'd query whether another field might be better.
i graduated with a HR degree a few years back, i found at the time that the only available jobs in the HR industry were for experienced professionals, with little to no graduate options. i had a few family friends who were also in the HR industry and i asked them if they know of many jobs, the common response was that companies are making their HR departments smaller and with this only want to keep the highly experienced or they outsource to a purely HR company (mainly hire experienced professional as well).
the other path to go would be recruitment but this seems to be focusing on a sales mindset nowadays (needing to hit KPI's and targets instead of keeping clients happy long term). they like school graduates for these base roles as they know they will eagerly do a job as they are chasing the commission.yet again this was all at the time when i was looking for a job after graduating so things may of changed by now. i did find that a specific HR degree was more or less the same as a generic business admin degree. i am now in marketing and didn't even need a degree in my first role.
I imagine a job in either HR, Communications, Recruiting, Company policy design, HR projects (recruitment for grads, or welders from a certain country or similar).