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With what educational qualifications I can become a Human Resource Manager?

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RE: With what educational qualifications I can become a Human Resource Manager?

Dr Aparna
Dr Aparna
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Hello

Thanks for visiting at CareerGuide.com!!!

Good to hear you are willing to become a human resource manager in your career and here today I shall explain the types of educational qualification that you will need to become a human resource manager. I am not sure of what is your present educational or career standing and therefore I shall give you some guidance in detail.


If you are in the stage of doing your bachelors/ undergraduate course, you may consider studying the Bachelor of business administration or Bachelor of business management course with HRM. As part of these both degrees you have an option to specialise in one area of management field and here you may choose to study HRM.

2. Bcom with HRM:
If you are in the stage of entering your bachelors degree, you may consider studying the BCom with HRM course. Almost most of the colleges in India offer HRM as one of the specialization of the Bcom degree and this might serve as a nice step right from the undergraduate level.

  1. BSc Psychology/ Sociology/ Social work:
I would like to point out that psychology, sociology and social work courses can indeed take you into human resource management career. There are plenty of candidates going into the field of HRM, from these subject backgrounds which is not widely known to many of the present generation. Many students think only a BBA/ MBA with HRM could get a career in HR and it is totally wrong. These social sciences subjects indeed teach students the skill a human resource professional needs to have. Though these subjects help you with an entry into HR jobs, you are also required to develop the rest of HR work skills from your work experience.

4. MSc Human resource management:
You can study a Masters degree in Human reosurce management irrelevant to your undergraduate subject. Yes, studnets from any subject in their bachelors degree could do this subject at MSc level. Additionally the cost of doing the MSc is also a liitle cheaper and admission seems to get easier compared to the professional degree like the MBA.
5. MA Applied Psychology/ MSc Industrial Psychology:
Similarly irrelevant to your undergraduate background, lots of colleges these days recruit students for MA Applied psychology or MSc Industrial psychology courses. These courses indeed teach the work skills that a human resource professional requires to demonstrate at work. Completing this degree studnets can work in any area of human resources and more particularly they are often choosen in recruitment, assessment centres designing, employee engagement, employee counselling, learning and development.

Almost all the degrees above doesnt require work experience however having some work experience might deem to prove useful to work in human resource manager. If you have studied any bachelors degree and have worked in human resources, and want to move to the manager level, the MBA/ PGDBM in HRM will prove useful.

Hope this helps.

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