Case Study: The Innovating Career: Human Resources

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The Innovating Career: Human Resources As jobs are becoming more technical every year and innovations are arising with new job opportunities, finding employees that meet a business’ requirement is becoming more difficult (Nickels (290-346). This is why it is important to have a career that arises and evolves that meets this innovating world: Human Resources. Human resources plays a big part into a business’ success from hiring new employees, to employee retainment, and ensuring employees are trained to meet the evolving businesses requirements (Nickels (290-346). Human Resources is quickly evolving to become one of firm’s most critical professions in the industries market business. In 2006-2010 Human Resources globally had a compound annual …show more content…

Human Resources practices retention for the massive cost and time taken it has to replace and hire new employees. Hiring has such a high cost for the facts of ensuring all new employees meet the expectations and requirements for a business. Not only do new employees have to meet the company’s expectations but also pass employment tests, physical exams, and background checks (Nickels (290-346). They also consider consumers habits and help form solutions to meet the businesses and consumer’s needs to keep up the company up to date. (Alper (112-113). Human resource personnel also help companies evolve with new innovations. Human resources help establish future labor by helping the companies find employees that meet the new requirements. Human resources personnel also forecast future requirements for organizations that way they can ensure trained people will be on hand for the organizations (Nickels (290-346). “In the future, human resource management may become the firm’s most critical function, responsible for dealing with all aspects of a business’s most critical resource: people” (Nickels (290-346). Human resources not only has a future of importance, but its past shows its importance now. From being responsible for only one department to being in many and still predicted to grow to being in charge of many more …show more content…

Robin now states that she is doing much more than hiring and different tasks on a weekly to monthly basis. Some of her weekly tasks she claims are keeping track of employee files, doing weekly reports such as I-9’s and W-4 forms (Garza). Robin also holds orientation classes for when there is a new hire. On a monthly basis she conducts safety audits as well as evaluations of the company and after passes them onto the department head. Garza, said some of the skills she thinks a human resources specialist needs to have good communication skills, some computer knowledge, FMLA (family and medical leave act) laws, workers compensation, and all the intricacies in the legal aspects of

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