Explore your potential HR careers as a specialist or generalist.
HR professionals typically either specialize (e.g., recruiting, compensation, training, employee relations) or rotate through the various positions on the way to becoming a generalist.
What is an HR Specialist?
Specialists develop deep expertise in a particular area of HRM and are often found in consulting where their expertise is used by a variety of companies. A typical career path for a specialist is to move up within the area of specialization (i.e., from individual contributor to manager, to principal).
What is an HR Generalist?
A generalist background is usually expected of those becoming the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) of a company. A typical career path for a generalist is to rotate between jobs at a level (e.g., occupy 1-3 individual contributor jobs) before advancing to the next level (e.g., HR Manager).
Student Experiences
More Prepared Than I Realized
In April 2019, I had the amazing opportunity to represent the Society for Human Resource Management chapter at UT Dallas and the Jindal School’s BS in Human Resource Management program, along with Shriya Bahri, Yen Dang, and Nickole Selensky, at the 2019 TXSHRM Student Games, hosted by Baylor University.
Student Testimonials
Nelson Mavares, BS’18
Cloud Analyst, Oracle
The HRM program was an excellent catapult for my career. The comprehensive curriculum accompanied by exceptional professors and mentors prepared me for my career in consulting.
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