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Originally Posted by gina
Can you elaborate what you mean by you are not the competitive type? Competition, hardwork and relentless drive to excel is sort of a given especially in areas like business partnering, recruitment and compensation.
There's no point in hypothesizing about "IF" you can get into HR PSD specialist route as a non-scholar because the short answer is you can't. PSD support functional roles are either scholars or people who have very strong academics who PSD sees having the potential to sponsor their further education in world class overseas universities. They don't state it in their recruitment ads because it is considered elitist and not in good form, but everyone in public sector kind of knows that. The only HR jobs PSD opens to non-academic types are operational ones which have as much value as joining any private company as a HR generalist.
My advice is you need to be honest to yourself and think about what sort of career and work life balance is more suitable for you and make a realistic choice. If you want to compete at levels that pay far beyond average careers, you need to put in 100% effort to survive the jungle. If you cannot / don't want, better not venture there in the first place.
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Hi Gina, thanks for the reply.
With regards competitiveness, I remember back in University, when we were doing a group project, one group had its members reserve a recommended reference text one after another such that the book would only be available to others at the end of the module! I found that competitive and extremely distasteful. There was no need to resort to that kind of inconsiderate and selfish behaviour. Competition in that sense brings out the worst in people. It's not that I can't do the same, but I don't want to need to stoop to that level. With regards to relentless hard work, I have no issues with that. I am more concerned about fair play. I had a circle of friend where we studied together and worked hard together and we all did well. We supported one another and all did well in uni. If the roles for HR specialist requires people to resort to dirty tricks, I may not be a good candidate or I may feel worn out constantly defending against other people instead of trusting people (yes I'm quite trusting with people). Thus I asked if there is a specific personality type more inclined to work as a HR specialist.
I do have a 1st class and Dean's list from one of the 3 local Us, as you mentioned earlier. I didn't take a scholarship though.