- Some HR jobs include hiring and interviewing applicants.Group of business people working together in the office. image by Andrey Kiselev from Fotolia.com
The field of human resources involves tasks such as hiring and, firing and orienting new employees and maintain training of current employees for career advancement and growth. There are various jobs related to the human resources field. Employers prefer those with a degree in business or human resources. Those with a bachelor's degree in human resources, average $45,170 a year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. - These human resources workers will make contacts with people looking for jobs. Recruitment specialists may have to travel within their community in order to find candidates that are right for the company. You will find recruitment specialists at career fairs and college campuses. Their job is to interview and test applicants. They may also look into the references of these job applicants and make job offers. Recruitment specialists must be familiar with their company so they can discuss wages, benefits and working conditions. They should also be familiar with the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws, along with the hiring laws and guidelines.
- An important duty of compensation and benefits specialists are to maintain a firm's pay structure. They have to think of ways to distribute fair wages, along with a team of compensation analysts and specialists in large organizations. Duties include studying in salary surveys to see how their company's pay scale compares to others. Compensation and benefits specialists should also maintain the compensation for the performance management system. They may also create reward plans to give employees bonuses or incentives. They may also assist the human resources manager for preparing the budget for the employee benefits program. Benefits include healthcare plans, 401k plans, stock plans and employee discounts. For the corporate sales staff, benefits and compensation specialists administer compensation programs and make recommendations to management about commission rates or special incentives when meeting quota.
- Training managers are responsible for training employees on various topics, such as how to run a piece of machinery or how to comply with the organization's harassment policies. They will perform training based on employees' needs. Training managers may even create the training program and deliver it to their employees. Training can occur in a classroom setting, through a training film or as a web-based program. For live training, training managers must make sure that they have all the training materials, that the training will stimulate the employees and that they administer certificates at the end of the class. Computer-assisted or technical training programs will require training managers to make sure that cameras, televisions, microphones, computers and other types of technology are properly working. Training managers should also evaluate how the training programs impact the performance of their employees.
- HR specialists, sometimes called HR generalists, may have a wide variety of duties that might include payroll, recruiting, company policies, disciplinary actions, terminations and promotions. They may also do basic office duties such as maintaining correspondence letters, files, records, applications and other relative information. They may also be responsible for maintaining data regarding position numbers, labor distributions or job re-classifications.
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