Human resources like most career choices requires that the person have a passion for people development and growth. Your passion for people development is more prominent in Human Resources without which your passion dies after few months or years on the job.

What fuels your drive towards helping people, improving their skills, engaging the right employees is passion.

Pssion means your desire to recognize potentials in people and or help them recognize where they need to improve so as to make the most of their lives.

Passion means your ability to recognize the right talents for an organizations man power planning.
Passion is about empathy i.e putting yourself in peoples shoes and feeling what they are feeling or thinking. Your ability to read minds technically and see through their eyes.

So its very important that you discover if you are passionate about human resources or you just want to do it as a job. This will determine how you perceive yourself on the job on the long run most especially your job satisfaction level.

So interested in building a career in HR, the following are very important:

1) Your passion.
2) Your degree.
3) Certifications.

To expand on the above, we shall discuss it further below and I would also like to entertain questions.

1) Your passion. As discussed above, your passion is very important to excelling in this kind of job. It is like a prerequisite for survival. You cannot have hate in your heart and excel. Most of your decisions and choices will be bias, unfounded and inaccurate.

Being passionate does not mean you will ignore logic.

It means for example that when you are recruiting and certain applicants are not fit for a role, you could in a minute or two explore the individuals resume and point out what you think was wrong or right. Where you think they should improve on and why.

2) Your degree. Sometimes, why this may not be important is if you begin your career in HR as an intern. This means that you are willing to be trained and during the course of this, you may prove yourself to be ready to take on the role.

Sometimes too, due to various certifications, your degree choices may be ignored. Note that I am using Nigeria as a case study. You may be certified as a HR person while your degree is in chemistry.

In modern times however, corporate organizations are moving towards employing people who have "discipline disparity". For example a combination of mathematics and Human resources or a combination of Chemistry and Human resources.

If you recognize early that you would want to be trained as a Human resource personnel then it is important you get a degree in the social sciences or in personnel management.

Currently, the University of Lagos offers second degrees in:

a. MILR: Masters of Industrial and Labor Relations.
b. IRPM. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management.
c. MELS. Masters of Employment and Labor Studies e.t.c

3) Your Certifications. What this means is getting certified as a proper practitioner. Certifications such as CIPM (The chartered institute of personnel management) and The Institute for Human Resources which specializes in IHR Certification.

I hope you find it useful and will like to hear from you guys.

Source:

https://humanresourceng..com.ng/2016/10/building-career-in-human-resources.html?m=1

Will be more than happy to help you with questions that you may have.

1) @ Maggilove, yes you can do HRM with your degree in English. Register for the new CIPM diet in February. You will start with Intermediate one. Applications would be open shortly.
2) @ fpeter, I am sorry I do not have that information but you can try cassonnigeria.org
3) @ Memphis357, yes on the right track.
4) @ ANNOY, your first degree doesnt matter. Follow the steps in my post.
5) @ omoakin87, you may have to do a PGD at UniLag but yes proceed to apply with CIPM. Start somewhere.

Thanks so much for this

@nmreports, tell me about CIPM please. I also studied English. Maybe I can start by February too

MissHatey:
Thanks so much for this

Thanks too. Glad you find it useful.

Nice one

I studied English and literary studies and I want to do a course in HRm, is it advisable?

My first degree was in Marketing and I proceeded to get an MBA in HR.
I love counseling, do you have an idea of schools in Nigeria that can offer
a course or Diploma in Counseling?
Thank you.

I love Hr matters.

nice one! keep it up op http://careersome.com another one

How well do you know HRCI? I took the certification exams in September. Hope I'm on the right track?

Nice

OK

op is public administration a good degree which will.lead me to become a human resource manager.

As misshatey don enter labour market, you find her in every career thread.

I graduated with higher national diploma (HND) in public administration base on in depth analysis of HR as sub- course which makes me love d course passionately. I desire 2 further my education up to master degree in human resources. pls what is way forward?

This is quite informative, I am a prospective Human Resource Manager.

ashewoboy:
As missh.atey don enter labour market, you find her in every career thread.

Amebo won't kill you sha
It's time to make real money biko

MissHatey:
Amebo won't kill you sha It's time to make real money biko

keep making the money. Goodluck.

what i dont understand abt cipm is after passing ntermediate2 exams, wll i, get certified or proceed to another stage?

elmisti:
what i dont understand abt cipm is after passing ntermediate2 exams, wll i, get certified or proceed to another stage?

No!!! There are still 2 stages.
PE1 and PE2.

fpeter:
My first degree was in Marketing and I proceeded to get an MBA in HR.
I love counseling, do you have an idea of schools in Nigeria that can offer
a course or Diploma in Counseling?
Thank you.

visit www.instituteofcounselingng.org or call their office for more information on 2349094812983


Thank me later

Thanks op Can someone with Hnd in science course go into this?

Julivas:
Thanks op
Can someone with Hnd in science course go into this?

You can. You may however have to start from Intermediate1 for CIPM but you may not be able to do HR courses at Masters level.

nmreports:


No!!! There are still 2 stages.
PE1 and PE2.

Mehn. ....Febuary shld come.....lets get dis sh*t started

elmisti:


Mehn. ....Febuary shld come.....lets get dis sh*t started

Oh yeah... All set and ready right?. You writing the papers?.

nmreports:


Oh yeah... All set and ready right?. You writing the papers?.

by Gods grace

afonomics:


visit www.instituteofcounselingng.org or call their office for more information on 2349094812983


Thank me later

Hope no be GNLD Counseling?

nmreports:


You can. You may however have to start from Intermediate1 for CIPM but you may not be able to do HR courses at Masters level.

Thanks

fpeter:




Hope no be GNLD Counseling?

LMAO.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA.

Thanks op, very educative. Can you help me about getting scholarship in a developed country for my masters degree.

African101:
Thanks op, very educative. Can you help me about getting scholarship in a developed country for my masters degree.

I am sorry I do not have any information about that.