How do I get a job as a Human Resources Director?

Question

Is it possible to get a job at that post right after I graduate from college? or do I have to have other experience before I apply for that post?

Answer 1

Get your business degree and work in HR while pursing your MBA.

Answer 2

Many years of experience and other certifications.  You can start at the bottom in an HR dept right out of college.

Answer 3

Human Resource Director is a highly professiolnal position, requiring experience plus advanced graduate work and certification.

It is possible to start at the bottom, but you will be best off by taking a Human Resources trainiig track in college and going on to your Masters. By then you will have networked enough to be able to wrangle interviews at the organizations you'd like to work for. You won't start at the bottom, either...but somewhere in the middle. .  

Answer 4

If your degree is in HR, you might be able to get a position as an HR asst or maybe a first level generalist/manager or you could work in Comp or a specialty like recruiting or OD and move over.  Most of the time, those who are Directors of HR move from an Hr Generalist to Sr. Generalist, HR business partner or Manager in a specific function to a Director job.   Most of the time you will have to have managed people, have some background in HR to know the technical/legal aspects and worked with the business so you know how HR applies in real life to the business functions like Finance, Sales and marketing or another.   HR Directors also advise on Employee relations issues, recruit new employees, work on annual performance management and incentive plan recommendations, work on leadership development, apply state and local employment law (FMLA, unemployment, workers comp, etc) to real life situations.   They need to be skilled professionals with a depth of experience usually.   Your speed to director level will depend on your level of maturity and self awareness, business acumen (Masters helps here), ability to learn the technical aspects (certifications help here) and opportunities to work on these different aspects of HR (mentors and where you work help here).