Academic Colours

[Oscarman]

Thanks buddy!

Congratulations, what do you graduate with?

Commerce, majoring in HR and Corporate Governance. Hopefully I can put it to some use. Total waste otherwise.

 

[carlyp]

Commerce, majoring in HR and Corporate Governance. Hopefully I can put it to some use. Total waste otherwise.

Excellent! What is corporate governance like?

I have thought about majoring in it if I do a second degree.

What type of career path would it lead you into?

 

[Dry Rot]

HR is evil and those that do it not too bright.

"HR people aren't the sharpest tacks in the box. We'll be blunt: If you are an ambitious young thing newly graduated from a top college or B-school with your eye on a rewarding career in business, your first instinct is not to join the human-resources dance. (At the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, which arguably boasts the nation's top faculty for organizational issues, just 1.2% of 2004 grads did so.) Says a management professor at one leading school: "The best and the brightest don't go into HR."

A good read about what thick bastards they are.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/open_hr.html

 

[Murray]

The latest terminology for HR is P & C (People and Culture)

 

[Mr Q]

HR is evil and those that do it not too bright.

"HR people aren't the sharpest tacks in the box. We'll be blunt: If you are an ambitious young thing newly graduated from a top college or B-school with your eye on a rewarding career in business, your first instinct is not to join the human-resources dance. (At the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, which arguably boasts the nation's top faculty for organizational issues, just 1.2% of 2004 grads did so.) Says a management professor at one leading school: "The best and the brightest don't go into HR."

That's probably more because the sort of people who would be good at HR don't do business degrees.