Human Resource Officer Career: Benefits for Psychology Background

This essay explores the career option of a Human Resource Officer, particularly for students with a psychology background. It highlights the skills required for the role, such as effective communication, judgment, negotiation, and multitasking. The job description includes recruitment, training, employee benefits administration, and ensuring employee welfare. The essay emphasizes the advantages psychology students bring to the HR field, including understanding motivational factors, monitoring performance, developing fresh approaches to role analysis, and effectively addressing employee issues. The author suggests that a psychology background can significantly enhance recruitment and improve employee performance through desired skills.

CAREER OPTION AS
HUMAN RESOURCE
OFFICER

INTRODUCTION
• Career is defined as occupation that
is undertaken by individuals for a
significant period of time and build
opportunities for future progress
• The different factors has to be kept in
mind while choosing the career such
as skills, interests, motivations and
value in the specific field and subject
• The right career will help in
understanding the interests of the
individuals and it determines the
future prospects of the specific career
• Career counseling is essential tool as
this will help in choosing the right
career

HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER
AS THE CAREER
• The skills that is required for HR
officer as the career is the ability
communicate in an effective manner
• The excellent judgment is required as
this will ensure that the right
individuals are placed in right
positions (Brewster et al., 2016)
• The candidate needs to have great
negotiation skills as the officer needs
to often speak between the manager
and the employees (Sparrow,
Brewster & Chung, 2016)
• The strong ability of multitasking is
essential in nature as this will help in
dealing with wide range of situations

JOB DESCRIPTION OF HR
OFFICER
• The annual pay of the HR officer is
around $55000. The HR officer is good
career option for psychology students
as this helps them in understanding
the profile of the candidates
• Proper recruitment, training and
development of the staffs
• It is the duty of HR staffs to pay the
employees on time and help them in
gaining benefits and pension
administration (Albrecht et al., 2015)
• Looking after the health and welfare of
the individuals in organization
• Negotiating the salaries and working
conditions with representatives and
staffs

REASONS WHY PSYCHOLOGIST STUDENT
CAN BECOME SUCCESSFUL HR OFFICER
• The students will help in
understanding the entire
psychology of motivational
factors (Armstrong & Taylor,
2014)
• The qualification required for the
post is graduate and minimum
percentage if around 65%.
• It will help the students in
monitoring the performance of
the different staffs in the
organization (Lovakov, 2017)
• It helps in developing fresh
approaches in such a manner
that this will help in analyzing
the roles

CONTD....
• The psychology student
can help in solving the
different issues of the
different employees in an
effectual manner
• The recruitment can be
done in such a manner
that this will help in
improving the
performance of employees
with the skills that is
desired (Storey, 2014)

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