Career Opportunities with a Degree in… Human Resources

Your Skills and the Employment Market

Possible Career Opportunities

Sample Jobs

Further Study Opportunities

What Past Graduates Have Done

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Your skills and the employment market

Having studied this course, you have built up skills that are in demand by employers.  As well as the knowledge of issues such as:

• Employment rights
• Employers obligations
• Theory of effective use of the human resources within a firm

You have also gained many other skills of interest to potential employers which could include:

• Report writing
• Presentation skills
• Communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Team work skills

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Possible Career Opportunities

Note: Further qualifications may be needed for certain positions. This list is a sample of positions available.

In most areas of business, in order to progress in HR or Personnel, it will be necessary to enrol with Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development [ CIPD.ie].   Their website contains information on recognised courses and programmes. Some postgraduate programmes (including MSc Industrial Relations & People Management in NUI Galway) offer CIPD accreditation.

Some larger companies will have graduate training schemes that include positions for HR graduates. One example of a graduate programme is IBEC’s annual Graduate Programme for IR/HR (see sample jobs).

For useful links see www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/virtual

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Sample Jobs

Some jobs advertised recently that may suit students / graduates (these jobs are not currently available and are shown here for illustration purposes only).

Recruitment Consultant, Venn Group London. Good honours degree with natural sales ability and strong business head. Positions in Ireland & UK..

Executive Search Consultant (trainee), JHA Limerick. Seeking individual with excellent business acumen and research capabilities. HR grads prefereable.

HR Executive, Marketing Partners Dublin. Marketing Consultancy firm looking for HR grads to work on range of HR and recruitment / headhunting projects. .

Graduate programme in Industrial Relations & Human Resources, IBEC. Open to honours graduates interested in pursuing a career in IR/HR. Knowledge of subject area, good knowledge of business and economic issues, excellent interpersonal skills required. Candidates should be articulate and have an interest in people and business issues. .

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Further study opportunities

For certain career choices, employers may look for candidates with further qualifications and training.  Some of the range of opportunities available in NUI Galway include:

• MBS Industrial Relations & Human Resource Mgt
• MBS Corporate Strategy and People Mgt
• HDip Systems Analysis
• LLB
  

For a full list please visit www.nuigalway.ie/courses .

The Careers Information Room has sections on Ireland and the UK (including individual prospectuses), USA (with guides to applying, funding and lists of courses), studying in EU countries as well as further afield.

Further study links:

http://www.postgradireland.com/ contains useful information on postgraduate courses in Ireland

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/ is an excellent site for researching opportunities in the UK

http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus covers the EU

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What past graduates have done

It is always interesting to know what fellow graduates have done after obtaining their degree at NUI, Galway.  Here is a sample of the destinations of past students who studied Human Resources.  These have been taken from our annual graduate survey.  

• Accountancy Trainee, KPMG
• Deputy Store Manager, LIDL
• Graduate Manager, Marriott Hotel
• HR Administrator, Obelisk Communications Cavan
• HR Intern, IBM Dublin
• HR, APC Galway
• Management Associate, Bank of Ireland
• Recruitment Consultant, Hunter Marshall Dublin
• Trainee Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Middle East

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