Is he making a mistake?

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<p>I’m studying HR in a diploma level and I assure you that your bf is making a huge mistake. Also, his entire “helping people” idea is noble but it’s really a bunch of ********. HR is usually the involve in the process of retrenchment and I doubt that will be his definition of helping people. Going for a community service trip in Cambodia is helping people. Studying HR is subjecting yourself to pointless theory which will command a relatively low salary in the work force. </p>

<p>Please do try to convince him out of doing so. If he really wants to do HR, I think that he can choose to study it at the masters level. :D</p>

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<p>why don’t you let the man do what his heart desires?</p>

<p>he’ll find his way, you need to mind your own business</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>Because if he regrets, she will have to bear his whining for lifeeeeeeeeeeee.</p>

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<p>You’ve got to be kidding me Tortfeasor. </p>

<p>But somehow, I know you aren’t.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure I understand what you mean. If the guy is willing to relocate there are plenty of good HR or HR related jobs out there. HR isn’t as respected as Finance but HR is needed. If he gets and MBA he can even consider HR consulting. </p>

<p>If I were him, I’d dump the girlfriend and go for the dream. Your future wife is supposed to back you up not control your life. That’s just my belief, He can do what ever the hell he wants. I’m just giving some man support so he has enough information make a man’s decision about THE REST of his life. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t pick HR or accounting either. For me it was Finance, economics, political science, operations management, or maybe architecture. I settled into Finance and International business.</p>

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<p>“…there are plenty of good HR or HR related jobs out there.”</p>

<p>lol.</p>

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<p>Wow Tortfeasor, you’ve hit a new low. You capitalize the majors you picked, yet every other major is lower-case? Where is the logic in that?</p>

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<p>Wow I see so many stupid comments on all sides in this topic.</p>

<p>If the girl really cares about her boyfriend, she will offer advice, not wait for him to ask for it. I know if I was going to make a big decision, and someone had information that I did not know about, I would certainly want to hear it. And if a relationship cannot survive one side initiating conversation that was not pre-approved, one can say goodbye to either the relationship or any happiness if continued.</p>

<p>However, there is a difference between offering advice and attempting to forcefully influence someone’s personal decision. She has not said anything about demanding he go one way or the other based on her opinion. All she did was ask for information so that she may relay it to him. Is this all she will actually do? Does she really care about his financial condition more so than his happiness in his own career? We don’t know. If she did try to force her opinion, then it is up to him to stand up for his self and make his own decision regardless of what she wants.</p>

<p>Ideally, at the end of their discussion, he will have discovered that a Human Resources degree does not lead to what he claims to want (helping people) and will not declare HR by his own decision, without any forceful influence from her, and she has saved him from a big mistake. If he stays with HR, we know that “helping people” only meant “easy major,” and he tells her the truth.</p>

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<p>Many people have a serious lack of understanding of HR. It is as important a support function as Finance/Accounting and IT. </p>

<p>HR is not merely about hiring and firing people…and it is certainly NOT to be pursued because one “likes people”. Hiring only part of one of the subfields of HR; Recruitment/Staffing. But even that subfield has far more strategic elements, such as annual manpower plans and project headcount growth based projected corporate strategy and growth estimates. Firing is not really something HR does, unless it is for disciplinary reasons. Typically, it is the line manager who decides whether an employee gets fired or not.</p>

<p>HR has several other subfields which are far more strategic than hiring.</p>

<p>1) Labor Relations/Collective Bargaining. This field deals with labor contracts and union negotiations.</p>

<p>2) Compensation and Benefits. This field deals with several elements, including market surveys to ensure that the company is paying its employees competitive salaries as well as establishing short and long term incentive plans (such as stock optionsand bonuses) etc…</p>

<p>3) Performance Management/Organization Development. This deals with measuring individual employee performance by facilitating annual revisions. At the more strategic level, this field deals with identifying high potential employees, ensuring that they are well taken care of and, keeping those employees abilities and career plans in mind, as well as the organization’s needs, lay out a succession plan that ensures smooth upward mobility.</p>

<p>4) Learning and Development. This field deals with the development of the workforce based on employee needs and corporate requirements.</p>

<p>5) HR Management. This field is the more “transactional” part of HR and deals with day-to-day HR management issues, such as ensuring data integrity, employee statisfaction, etc…</p>

<p>In recent surveys conducted on Fortunate 500 CEOs, 50% of the top 10 business issues that keep them up at night are HR-related.</p>

<p>Give all of the above, it is no wonder that senior HR executives typically report directly to the CEO or COO and are among the best paid employees in the organization.</p>

<p>In short, I would not worry if one’s child, significant other (affianced or otherwise!) were to seek a career in HR.</p>

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<p>I care more about his happiness, and I know him. He has big dreams of making 100k+ year and living the high life. He wants to be high on the corporal ladder, and he would NOT be happy making 40k pushing papers at a desk for the rest of his life. He wants to be somebody, but from what I have been told, HR doesn’t fit the 100k+/yr with the fancy life style and “helping” people. He wants to be his own boss.</p>

<p>We talked some more and he says he wants to start his own HR con. firm. I support him, and it makes me nervous that he wants to start a business because my dad started his own business and I saw how that ruined his marriage/family life and put him into some serious debt.</p>

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<p>HR jobs are not in abundance. My mom, a former actuary and VP of a large, nationwide company, told me that HR is like the “fat” of a company, and the company wants to keep itself as lean as possible.</p>

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<p>I’m not trying to control his life, but I don’t want to live with an unhappy man for the next forty-fifty years who regrets his decision.</p>

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<p>^^</p>

<p>What sort of HR firm does he plan to start? A recruitment firm? :S</p>

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<p>Sounds like you are really trying to help him then. I hope he listens. I don’t see how he could get any clients with his own consulting firm straight out of college. So he would need to get consulting experience by working at an existing firm for several years first. And those consulting firms often require a high GPA in a top school, especially when your major is not Accounting or Engineering. So hopefully he is in a top school. If not, i can see some upcoming conflicts with those kind of dreams/goals and a HR degree from a non-prestigious school. </p>

<p>Of course, if he does not want to do Accounting because he hates it and/or is not good at it, I don’t think accounting would be a good idea either. If he is not going to a top school, in my opinion it would be good to find a degree that is <em>somewhat</em> reputable (like Accounting, Operations/Logistics/Supply Chain, Management Information Systems, Finance…NOT Marketing, Management, International Business, Business Administration, Human Resources, etc…), that he is good at and can <em>tolerate</em> (not love, not hate…just tolerate), get 3-5 years of work experience, then try to get into a top business school for an MBA in Human Resources and go into Human Resources consulting for several years before considering starting his own firm.</p>