How to land a job in HR without any HR experience?

music marshmellow

Hi All,

I want a career change and would like to ask for advice of how to get into Human Resources (HR) without a degree nor HR experience.

A little bit about myself:
I am a BA holder in Business and I.T and a Master in International Business. I had worked in I.T and insurance before and my current role is a Product Manager in an International Bank. After working for more than 2 years in this role, I realized that the nature of this role is not something I enjoy nor seek for. In fact, I am very interested in working in HR.

My question here is, how can I improve my chances in landing a position in HR? Would getting a Masters in HR help?

FYI: I have had tried applying for HR roles and for all rejected applications, they have the same rejected reason across all where that I have no HR experience. I am also have passed the age to get an internship.

Any advice would be greatly appreciate it!

Thanks in advance,

Gloria

skallywag

I think you will require some class of qualification in the field before you will get in the door.

trihead

You need to do or register at least for a CIPD cert or diploma to get in the door. There is huge competition for entry-level roles - as you having degrees and masters in hr graduates competing for those too.

music marshmellow

skallywag wrote: »

I think you will require some class of qualification in the field before you will get in the door.

Would you think a Master in HR will help? I'm considering taking a course since I dont have any experience in HR. Want to use qualification to make up for it

B.A._Baracus

Tall order op.
You need to have education or experience somehow. To show something.

That would be like me saying how do I get a job in, I dunno, music production when I know nothing about it.

So do some sort of course. Then you can embellish your CV afterwards.

music marshmellow

trihead wrote: »

You need to do or register at least for a CIPD cert or diploma to get in the door. There is huge competition for entry-level roles - as you having degrees and masters in hr graduates competing for those too.

Can I go for a CIPD cert/ diploma without a HR degree? If so, with your advice would CIPD be valued more than a Masters in HR?

I am trying to see which route to go down to increase my chances in landing a role even just a junior role.

OMM 0000

I don't know where you are, but I'll assume Dublin.

Griffith College do a 12 week, part-time, HR "taster" course:

https://www.griffith.ie/faculties/short-courses/courses/human-resource-management-taster-course

Could be a good start?

eastie17

Why would you want to? In most large organisations, and even some smaller, HRs job has been transferred to Managers. HR used to be a useful sounding board and a source of assistance for both employees and managers, now they are worst than useless as anything you want to do they just over complicate. Some of that is because a lot of HR people only seem to have experience of HR and not business, OP your background should be the type of person they are looking for, with some more real world experience.
They are now neither employee advocates or employer advocates and their only use is hiring and firing.

OMM 0000

They are indeed utterly useless, and in my experience just get in the way.

Augme

What do you want to switch to HR? What is it about the role that you think might be attractive? As mentioned, hr might not actually be what you think it is.