What are the employment prospects for international students majoring in human resources in the United States?

(1) Professional introduction

Society’s demand for human resources professionals includes macro and micro parts. From a macro perspective, a country/region's policy environment for human resources development, and the legal and institutional construction of human resources development and management are all major issues that determine the efficiency of the utilization of human resources in a country/region. From a micro perspective, human resource management is closely related to corporate business strategy. The demand for human resources professionals is multi-faceted, including strategic and decision-making levels; tactical levels (such as salary system design, job analysis and design, performance standard formulation, employee relationship coordination, etc.). Judging from the level and quantity of talents currently cultivated by human resources management colleges across the country and the demand for talents for my country's economic development, there is an extreme lack of professional talents both at the decision-making level and at the technical level.

(2) Introduction to professional courses

HR is roughly divided into two types in the United States: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. The curriculum of IR/HR focuses on basic and advanced HR courses such as industrial relations, collective bargaining, compensation, employment management, and GT. In most American schools, especially those with better rankings, HR has a dedicated School of Labor Relations/Industrial Relations or is located under the business school; for most schools, HR is usually affiliated with the Labor Relations Center or It's under the Faculty of Liberal Arts. There is also a category of majors related to human resources and organizational behavior that are offered under the Department of Psychology. The main research contents are Organizational Behavior and Operating System. These majors such as OB/OS are different from HR to a large extent. The setting of professional courses is very different, focusing more on organizational behavior, strategic organizational studies, organizational change, quality assessment and other organizational psychology and organizational studies. Behavioral and talent assessment courses. This direction is more research-oriented and requires a relatively high undergraduate academic background.

(3) Application Points

Although there are not so many applicants for HR compared to finance and accounting under the business major, and the background is not so strict, we still should not ignore HR. competitiveness. For individual schools, it is better to have work experience, so that the success rate of application will be higher.

As the field of human resources becomes increasingly popular in China, the number of people applying for HR master's degrees in the United States is also gradually increasing. However, there are only seven or eight HR majors in the top 50 in the United States, and the total enrollment is limited. Compared with the total enrollment of accounting and finance majors, it is only a fraction, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of applying to study in the United States.

(4) Employment prospects

As students applying to study in the United States, they may be most concerned about the future of human resources majors. Since 2005, my country's demand for human resources professionals has been on the rise, and the employment prospects are also very promising. The analysis is as follows:

The companies where students majoring in human resources management work are distributed in the financial and insurance industry (30%); information industry (13.3%); consulting service industry (16.7%); fast moving consumer goods (16.7%); electronics Technology (6.7%); pharmaceuticals and bioengineering (6.7%); durable consumer goods (light industry, home appliances, clothing, textiles) 10%. It can be seen that recruiting companies are mainly concentrated in popular and potential industries such as finance and insurance, consulting services, and fast-moving consumer goods industries.

Among the total number of positions recruited by companies, human resource management, marketing, consultants, auditors, trainees, etc. are the most popular. Among them, human resource management positions account for 82.5%, marketing and sales positions account for 7.5%, consultants account for 5%, auditors account for 2.5%, and trainee positions account for 2.5%. It should be pointed out that the starting salary of HR graduates in business schools is about 20%-30% higher than that of HR graduates in liberal arts schools or labor relations centers.