Human Resources Admissions Webinar

Hello welcome to the web and R for the.

She ever Pacific University Master of Arts in management.

Human Resources Management Program.

Our agenda today is to give you an introduction to me and to our school to our program and give you some guidance about how to proceed.

As you might consider pursuing.

A Masters degree in human resources.

A little bit about me, I'm Gary Carnes sees social Dean for graduate programs and faculty member in the School of Business government and economics.

A little bit about the web and R the content in this informational webinar is similar to what would occur in an on campus information session. We're going to give you information about getting a graduate degree about SPS programs and there are opportunities for chiming in with questions.

And through the chat function and it should only take 30 or 40 minutes.

If you're watching the recording of this web and R sadly the chat function will not be working.

So let's go on a little journey an trying trying to contemplate.

How Graduate School might fit in to your situation?

So you've got a bachelors degree and you may well have been working for some time or may have just gotten started in your career or you may have been at it for awhile.

And we've been trying to figure out how to get ahead. It's quite amazed to sort through.

And you've been trying to move up in your responsibilities and have a larger sphere of influence.

And you may have made some steps in in that direction.

Now of course, you might be changing careers and wanting to get into a new sphere and either in either case.

We're here to help you.

To get an even greater sphere of influence.

You're probably going to need more experience and good chance you'll need a Masters degree.

Let's talk about the directionality of becoming an HR specialist or or generalists heading towards its some point in your career, becoming what's called in the HR World business partner or business advisor?

Senior.

HR manager position working directly with other senior level executives, setting the strategy of a firm because firms are driven by the engine of the employees and HR is really important strategic function in every organization.

What are the necessary skills and knowledge for?

And HR Specialist HR Generalist well. Of course, you have to have a great deal of knowledge about human resources.

Benefits Labor Relations negotiations.

Uh the reward systems motivating employees coaching performance appraisals.

Routing in selection and training all those things.

It helps a good deal to have a working knowledge of of the other functions of business so.

You can engage.

Productively.

In conversations with hiring managers across the units that HR serves.

It helps to have a strategic perspective on HR.

And uh and have that strategic perspective aligned with the strategic perspective of the business where it's trying to go and how it needs human resources.

To move in that.

Yeah, direction.

Great communication skills teamwork and so many more skills creativity problem solving, etc are needed for success in this Caribbean.

So what's next for you?

Well keep working and you will acquire.

By the year, the school of hard work.

The knowledge to to move forward as long as you have opportunities to to keep learning through your work.

Can accelerate things by by doing a Masters degree?

Often times this means leaving work and going back to school full time.

But it can mean?

Staying at work and going to school at the same time.

These kinds of graduate programs are called working professional or flex programs.

And typically this means going to school at night after work or going to school online while working.

Or going to school on weekends, while working.

Typically graduate programs are.

Coming into play.

After you've worked for a couple of years after grad do your bachelors degree.

And it probably makes more sense.

To pursue a graduate degree?

Within within 5 years after graduating.

It just gets harder and harder to go back to school. Whether you're doing, it online at home or whether you're going to a campus for classes in the evenings or weekends.

The more you get into your karere the more you get into your families more you get into your other social obligations in organizations in your life.

Some students in some programs are set up so that it makes sense to go to a Masters degree immediately after attaining a bachelors degree.

Many really good Masters programs do require.

Some work experience the ability to connect with.

The.

Business leaders.

And other peers in an organization.

That come with some work experience along with the increased knowledge their Masters degree provides gives greater credibility.