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To be fair, Cayuga, your percentages were for those immediately entering the workforce. So if a lower percent of those pursuing graduate study are doing so in areas related to ILR (vis those entering the workforce), then the total percent graduates pursuing ILR-related activities would be brought down.
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<p>Fair enough, rendeli, but wouldn't you agree that a majority of students pursuing graduate school out of ILR enter into fields with a direct link back to their undergraduate studies? (e.g. PhDs in social history or labor economics, JDs with concentrations on labor and employment law, MPPs and MS in negotiation). You are certainly a great example of this...</p>
<p>Haha yeah. I think that ILRies who continue their studies are more likely (than those entering the workforce) to continue using their training in labor. It was just a mathematical clarification for those who might interpret the grad school difference to be very big because you'd add to that percentage everyone who enters grad school.
I would also like to add that there are several majors whose graduates don't tend to directly draw from their studies. But as long as you're managing your own career, evaluating the prospects for your occupation, and working within an organizational hierarchy, (and sometimes interacting with unions) you'll be drawing from what you study in ILR.</p>
<p>human resources is a great field, it's just that some companies label their HR depts incorrectly b/c their HR DEPT does more personnel work rather than human resources D:</p>
Yeah, I've been realizing this as well through the internships I've been doing. I'm gonna keep telling my friends to pursue non-HR related jobs so that there's less competition for me. :D</p>
<p>Comparing the amount of work, stress, and pay of an HR job to that of some 6 figure job like IBanking is a real eye opener.</p>
<p>the key to HR is doing it in a great company. My friends (including myself) who have chosen to do the more HR route in companies like Goldman Sachs, Citi, Boeing, Google, Microsoft, GE, Nestle, JP Morgan, UTC have found that their job offers compete very favorably against other consulting/banking jobs. In fact, an offer I recieved from a top-5 consulting firm was less than some offers for HR work in other companies (and I'd be working significantly less hours in a day). </p>
<p>Also, people think HR work is just handling benefits calls or grievances. This does happen, but the HR jobs Cornell grads get are big into strategy and helping companies really drive performance. big time stuff.</p>
<p>Cayuga, I am reading The Tycoons... its about Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould, and JP Morgan. My economics professor let me borrow some books he had for the summer. </p>
<p>I will definitely check out that book you suggested. I was also going to read The World is Flat by Friedman per the suggestion of my econ professor.</p>
<p>If you have interest in seeking a finance-related job and would like to study business-related courses, apply to AEM. Actually, nowdays, it is very difficult to transfer into AEM once ur at Cornell through internal transfer. Correct me if I am wrong, but, AEM department has almost shut the doors down for internal transfers since there isn't enough room. ILR is more like human-resource-related and labor related business, and AEM is just straight biz school, including finance, accounting, etc.</p>