Human Resources - Anybody work in it?

HR is usually women. No, they are not the most hated. The IT department is the most hated. Mostly because people know jack shit about computers in a corporate settings, and just assume that if anything goes wrong, it's because IT decided to fuck with it for no reason.
 
HR is usually women. No, they are not the most hated. The IT department is the most hated. Mostly because people know jack shit about computers in a corporate settings, and just assume that if anything goes wrong, it's because IT decided to fuck with it for no reason.

Dont you have a masters in hr or something
 
HR is usually women. No, they are not the most hated. The IT department is the most hated. Mostly because people know jack shit about computers in a corporate settings, and just assume that if anything goes wrong, it's because IT decided to fuck with it for no reason.

lol, i work for a telecommunications firm, and next to management, IT is the most hated department

it seems like you can be a complete idiot and still get hired in IT
 
I was temping in HR at a University last year, and they were 80%+ women. Boring though, no idea why anyone would wanna do it as a career.
 
I study HRM (Human Resource Management) in the Netherlands and our class is 50/50 male/female
 
The software company I work for is the database system that houses Applicants. I deal with HR all day long on the phone. Top recruiters make a ton of money.
 
Easy money if you're not completely retarded, because most everyone else in the department will be dumb, so you can get easily promoted. And the pay is ok because firms don't want to appear to be sexist and pay their women-loaded department less than other areas of the firm.

Mostly women make up the department because it doesn't require hard skills/math skills, and basically consists of giving crappy advice on stupid stuff, or conducting interviews that any junior high kid could do, but most importantly, trying to take as much money off of people working as you can while HR sits on their ass.

i.e. you work your ass off for a year, get promoted, then some idiot in HR offers a super crappy pay raise.

Easy for women to do this, because they typically have no qualms about sitting on their ass and taking their husbands' money.

What's funny is how their that little retarded kid at the table, where you have a round table management meeting where CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and so fourth talk about their challenges in the industry and complex issues, then it gets to HR whose issue will be something completely unimportant.
 
Easy money if you're not completely retarded, because most everyone else in the department will be dumb, so you can get easily promoted. And the pay is ok because firms don't want to appear to be sexist and pay their women-loaded department less than other areas of the firm.

Mostly women make up the department because it doesn't require hard skills/math skills, and basically consists of giving crappy advice on stupid stuff, or conducting interviews that any junior high kid could do, but most importantly, trying to take as much money off of people working as you can while HR sits on their ass.

i.e. you work your ass off for a year, get promoted, then some idiot in HR offers a super crappy pay raise.

Easy for women to do this, because they typically have no qualms about sitting on their ass and taking their husbands' money.

What's funny is how their that little retarded kid at the table, where you have a round table management meeting where CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and so fourth talk about their challenges in the industry and complex issues, then it gets to HR whose issue will be something completely unimportant.

*they're

If you're calling someone retarded, you may want to use proper grammar. Other than that, I agree completely with what you posted.
 
Why in god's name would you voluntarily pursue a career in HR? As a Controller the first thing I look to cut is HR reps because it's so easily outsourced and immensely cost-effective to do so, depending on the size and needs of your company.

The only benefit I can see form it is the fact that you can get paid something close to executive level salary in a company without a whole ton of work to get there.
 
lol, i work for a telecommunications firm, and next to management, IT is the most hated department

it seems like you can be a complete idiot and still get hired in IT

racists imo
 
I've had offers from my clients for in-house recruiting, but quite frankly, i think i'd get bored. But as for HR HR, meh.
 
TS it took me a while to find this but I'm happy to give you some advice.

I worked in Corporate recruitment for a rather large mining organisation for almost a year before I moved on and I would have to say, get the hell out of agency recruiting - it sucks! Corporate recruitment is great because you're there to help your organsiation as opposed to trying to sell them something. Agency is the pits and I argue that it's not even 'true' HR.

As for you wanting to delve into pure HR (or generalist I'm assuming you mean) I would say that it's a pretty wise choice but it all depends on where you're living. HR is like a system - it's comprised of your organisational growth (Strategic HR, Org Development), Safety (QHSE, HSE etc), Knowledge (Training and Development, Performance Management), Absorption (Recruitment, Selection), Legal (IR/ER, Employment Law) and Retention (Performance and Compensation and Employee Engagement). To be a generalist you're essentially a jack of all trades and dabble in everything but to get to a senior level you will need to specialise, preferably in either the growth and legal aspects.

Speaking from experience, recruitment is a fantastic function to begin in because you understand time frames and urgency. Your next step would be further study to see where you want to specialise accompanied with the movement to a generalist role so you can experience these aspects for yourself. The beauty of HR is the pathways and if you're lucky enough to be in an organisation that fosters growth and your manager is a wealth of knowledge then you are essentially set for your career.

Where are you from TS? Have you studied?
 
TS - forgot to mention, yes it is majority female BUT it makes it easier for us to get positions because being male, we relate with the workforce better and add a different dynamic to a team. Essentially we break down the barriers with management as most senior management are typically male.
 
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