Master of Human Resources Degree

As a recruiter, I often work with the head of the Human Resources department for a particular company to facilitate the hiring of their new staff. Often if I'm not dealing with the manager, I might be working with a Human Resources Assistant or HR Recruiter.

Typically, if I'm working with the HR Assistant, it's the HR Manager who ends up approving the use of recruiters to find new staff and usually sets the overall ability of their assistants to recruit and hire new staff.

Hiring (and firing) is just one function that a company's HR manager might be ultimately be responsible for.

Certainly the head of the HR department might also be responsible for compensation systems, creating and implementing company policies, settling disputes between the company and current or former employees, administering and explaining benefits programs to employees among other functions.

The head of HR might also be responsible for understanding labor relations laws and ensuring the company is compliant, implementing testing programs for potential new hires, decreasing employee turnover, offering job training and other functions.

In some companies, holding a Master of Human Resources degree or equivalent is often seen as a prerequisite for heading up the HR department along with suitable relevant work experience of course.

As with other degrees, the Master of Human Resources degree might be one that you can attain online or through a part-time program if a traditional fulltime program does not suit your schedule.

Increasingly, HR degrees such as this one are being offered in conjunction or as part of Master of Business Administration and other post graduate programs highlighting the importance of the HR function in business.

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