I'm a corporate recruiter with about 7 years experience. Most of my experience has been recruiting for financial services firms. Unfortunately I just recently got laid off due to the terrible state of the financial markets. I would like to move in to other areas of HR but I am not qualified for them because I only really have recruiting experience and no other formal training or experience in other areas of HR. What worries me if that no one is hiring at the moment and they are projecting 2009 is supposed to be worse than 2008 – and if that is the case, a lot of companies will not be hiring a lot and hence will not need recruiters. Plus with the markets and economy being what it is and with the number of candidates there are out on the market looking for jobs (who I am technically competing against for jobs), would I be smart to take the next 2 years and get a graduate degree? Is there any value added in getting a Masters or MBA in Human Resources? I have heard several people say it might not be worth my time and money as you do not need an MA or MBA to work in HR, so I wonder if it is worth it or not. So – what do I do? Do I…. 1) Continue to apply for recruiting jobs in this downturn economy and hope that someone somewhere gives me an interview and possibly even a job offer? 2) Take a big cut in salary and title (which I can afford to do luckily) and start from scratch looking for (and possibly taking) an HR Coordinator/Jr. Generalist or another entry HR type role where I can learn a new facet of HR from the ground up? 3) Or should I sink my time and money into getting an MA or MBA in HR? A lot of people argue it is not necessary to get a graduate degree in HR and that you can learn everything on the job. Any thoughts? THANKS!!!!
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From everything i've heard, recruiting is a dead end. Now is a great time to reevaluate but blindly getting another degree isn't your answer. If HR is your thing, then start learning more about it, round out your skills, and set yourself up for when the economy turns around
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Yes a masters degree would be good and in today's market the best. I have heard and seen that now people are wanting people with a masters degree in their area or 3 to 4 years experience. You have 7 that's great!! You have experience in one area of HR, now why not try to get a Masters in perhaps another area of HR. That will make you look better and greatly improve your chances of getting a job and moving up the ladder to a much higher job within HR. You see what I mean? You have 7 years experience which looks great in recruiting, now how about getting a masters in HR in the area of say education and development. That would make you at least twice as likely to get a good job and you will open many more doors. Best of luck to you! You I'm sure already know about this website but if not or if you have forgotten it, it has some good info on the HR industry. http://www.shrm.org/
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Many people think that the MBA consists of majors or concentrations that give you in depth training in a specific field. The degree Master of Business Administration is not the same as Master of Science. The MBA is a general broad degree covering a wide variety of business issues and training students for careers in managing any area of business up to CEO. MBA students study accounting, finance, marketing, statistics, management, economics, strategy, policy, leadership and similar courses. The MBA was developed because people with technical backgrounds getting promoted into management are not always able to manage, and people in management often don't understand the technical fields they manage. That's why MBA programs prefer students with degrees in other than business and with 2-4 years of work experience. Their graduates learn to manage and can speak the language of the people they manage, whether that is engineering, chemistry, medicine, music, or any other field. The MS is a degree that concentrates study in a specific field, such as finance, accounting, electrical engineering, biology, or chemistry and trains students for careers in high level staff positions often involving research. Many MBA programs offer concentrations, but this usually amounts to 2-3 elective courses in a specific field in the second year of the program. Thus an MBA in marketing may amount to a student taking Market Research, Advertising, and Consumer Behavior as a marketing concentration, while a finance concentration may mean courses in Business Mergers, Security Analysis, and Cost Accounting. Instead of a concentration, an MBA student may opt to take a broad range of electives in Production, Accounting, Marketing, Human Resource Management and other areas in order to broaden his background rather than concentrating in a single area. Before you consider which MBA program is for you, consult the Official MBA Guide, a comprehensive free public service with more than 2,000 MBA programs listed worldwide. It allows you to search for programs by location (US, Europe, Far East, etc.), by concentration (finance, marketing, aviation management, health management, accounting, etc.), by type of program (full-time, distance learning, part-time, etc), and by listing your own criteria and preferences to get a list of universities that satisfy your needs. You can use the Guide to contact schools of your choice, examine their data, visit their web site, and send them pre applications. You can see lists of top 40 schools ranked by starting salaries of graduates, GMAT scores, and other criteria. It's the best service available at http://officialmbaguide.org.
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