Create a 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
In the past decade, the human resources (HR) function gained strategic positioning within organizations as the need for professional competencies in managing human talent became recognized. Within the field of HR, disciplines, also called specialties, provide critical skills to the organization. These disciplines or specialties include training and development, recruiting, compensation, benefits, labor relations, employee and organizational development, and so forth.
You will need to identify an HR discipline that interests you or closely aligns with your current or future career goals. For example, you may already be working in training and development, that discipline may align with your future career goals, or you may be in management and want to learn more about the recruiting process because you are involved with hiring new candidates. After you have identified your HR discipline of interest, you will need to explore and describe your chosen discipline in your Discussion Board response.
To learn more about where to explore and research your chosen discipline, watch this tutorial.
Now that you have watched the tutorial, you should have a better idea about how to research career fields within HR that are of interest to you. Below you will find links (some require a paid membership, which is not a class requirement) that will further define the parameters of certain HR specialties. The following links are optional; however, they are excellent resources, so consider using them to help answer the course questions:
• Careeronestop
• Society for Human Resource Management
• Benefits
• Business leadership and strategy
• Compensation
• Consulting
• Diversity
• Employee relations
• Ethics and corporate social responsibility
• Global HR
• Labor relations
• Organizational and employee development
• Recruiting and staffing management
Now that you have learned more about your chosen discipline, respond to the following set of questions that best applies to you. You only need to respond to 1 set of questions, as follows:
• Currently Working in Your Chosen Discipline
o What is one new thing that you learned by researching this area?
o Describe what you do at your current position that matches the information that you found?
o What is something that you do at your current position that you did not discover during your research that you feel would be beneficial to share with your classmates?
• Chosen Discipline is Your Future Career Goal
o What did you learn from your exploration that you did not know before?
o After your research, is this still an area that interests you? Why or why not?
o After learning more about this field, do you feel that you have the skills and experience that are required for this field? Why or why not?
• Currently Working in a Field Outside of HR or Planning to Pursue a Field Outside of HR
o What did you discover from your exploration?
o Has learning about this discipline changed how you view your current or future career? Why or why not?
o What is something that you learned from your exploration that can be applied to your current or future career?