So I am a junior and I’m so close to college yet I’m still unsure what major to do. I have narrowed it down to human resourcing aka. HR Manager(my closest option), business(still not sure yet), law school (only little consideration) or nursing school. I really wanted to do HR but I heard from people that HR majors aren’t that good especially when you can have some kind of business major and still be an HR Manager. Can someone give me some kind of guidance please!!!
I’m not entirely sure on your explanation/reasoning but I’ll tackle the different aspects of your question.
Major
HR is a subset of business so for now you are basically deciding between Business, Law, or Nursing. The first 2 are understandable as they are somewhat related, but if you are seriously considering nursing then you should be able to develop a pretty definitive opinion between Business & Law vs Nursing.
HR
As for human resources specifically, you definitely do not need to be an HR major to pursue a career in human resources. General business administration majors can still pursue an HR career. It isn’t a field that has a lot of industry specific skill sets such as law or finance so a general college education will work. If you are looking into HR from a more analytical standpoint, a management and mathematics background would help greatly. If you look into HR consulting, firms like Mercer exceed at this, you start to delve into optimizing processes and company structures based on data which require some more advanced skills.
Thank you so much!!! This is the kind of answers i need!!!
I’m with AoDay, there is a huge difference between Business & Law VS Nursing. So you really would have to decide for yourself which you think would be more interesting.
As for your business and law options. I think it’s very important to figure out which part of those fields, you have an interest in because business can be as broad as marketing to accounting and law can be broad as criminal to tax.
Though, something I would advise is that there is a huge misconception that pre-law -> law school. Most law firms want non-prelaw because its useless once you go to law school. For many fields in law, you have to have a background in a certain field like a STEM degree for patent law, accounting degree for tax attorney, etc.