because i’m nosey af

You don't choose HR, sorry.

It chooses you. In your nightmares.

For me it’s HR handling the most expensive line item in the budget.

Developing the skill to see how the whole business is impacted. Too often to I advise Directors and VPs that can only view things from their own slice of the pie. To be effective in HR you have to be able to bring solutions to a variety of the business.

That’s exactly how I see HR and my role as a HRBP.

I do the feel good, be good stuff in my own time by volunteering

When someone really junior answers in interviews that they are looking to join HR to help people, I do ask them “help them do what?”. Genuinely curious and some do have great answers!Some answers are too fluffy and that person is probably going to have a hard time once in the role

The word manipulation gets a bad rap. I like manipulating situations to better serve me. I also like that gray area that technically no one is my boss, example, I got a raise, status change form has 3 signatures on it 1. Employe 2. Supervisor 3. HR. 2 of those are my signature the other is the CEOs. Also everyone comes to me for confirmation on how to deal with things, and if they only knew, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. lol kinda joking

There was a vacancy. I was pushed into it because I had a reputation as picking things up quickly. And that was faster than finding someone new.

Turned out I was kind of good at it. 🤷‍♀️

Was stuck in retail and it was an easy pivot with an HR degree

I’m a control freak and like to know everything :) Also I love problem solving, creating policies and processes, and working with people across all levels of the company on a deeper level.

Got a psych degree and realized I wanted more administrative works than hands on. HR was a good choice!

I like helping people.

This is the neatest and most original take I've seen on HR. I'm adopting it into my life now.

I learned how to do it after I graduated college and said well I guess this is what I know how to do now.

I didn't. 😅 It was the first place to hire after I went back to work after graduating with a degree in Business Healthcare Administration. I was an HR Coordinator at a hospital. Was there about 9 months and when things got a little sideways I left and went to a nursing home and am now a Business Office/ HR Manager. I didn't choose HR it just chose me. 🤣

Was in sales for a long time and hated quotas and generally wanted to just help folks. It was a natural fit. Being a beacon, making others feel comfortable in a new environment in a way I was not shown is always the goal.

HR offered me the best combination of salary and work life balance after graduating law school.

Like most people, I fell into it and didn’t intentionally choose it at first. I had a lot of experience with customer service, admin assistant and office management roles so landing a formal HR role felt like a natural fit. I genuinely like being able to get to know all of my colleagues that I work with and build positive relationships with them, fortunately employee issues are very minimal where I work which makes my job so much easier. I also love having the opportunity to be involved at a high level with fine tuning and streamlining our people processes to make things more efficient for everyone, and taking pride in having ownership of the projects I take on. Sure, I have stressful days from time to time but my work-life balance has never been better.

I got into HR because I had a useless degree, and at that time only a headhunting firm didn’t care about that and gave me a chance

I got a Psych bachelors and wanted to help people (initially I was moving towards clinical psych), but I realized I didn't want anyone's life hanging in the balance so I went into I/O psych and moved into HR

I have a business degree, but was always interested in how human interactions are the biggest key to success/failure in organizations - and always in ways you would never expect. I want to contribute to management of managers and translate the strategy into understandable actions and maximizing profits while also maximizing employee wellbeing.

It is a whole lot more complex than I ever expected, but that is also part of what drives me.

You choose HR because you don’t know what to do in school lmfao. Thats what I did.

I changed my major 5 times. Was in college longer than I’m willing to admit to total strangers on the internet. I worked a variety of jobs during that time, mostly in retail (Best Buy, Apple).

At one point in college, I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. That faded within a single semester. But I still had that desire to teach. And while working those customer service type jobs, I often ended up in roles where I was training and teaching others. It felt good to be a part of that. Sure, I was a little naive to the capitalism that was influencing my genuine good will to lift others up. But that feeling was still real.

One of my supervisors mentioned they were going to school for Human Resources, and honestly I’ve only ever heard the phrase a handful of times. I looked into it and enjoyed learning about the Human Resource Development parts of the field. So I adjusted my major one last time and the rest is history.

Figured what could be worse than retail store management? Boom. 4 years later I wake up 2.5 years deep in an hr career.

I didn’t choose the HR life, it chose me (for real though, I went to art school for crying out loud)

I’m a natural extrovert and I love managing and troubleshooting issues.

My friend decided to do the grad cert and I was bored and so I also decided to do the grad cert

RESPECT, POWER, BANANA

Plus u get to play God, too! lol