In my 8th year as a hr professional and just managed to hit 90k per annum basic. HR mainly have 2 kinds of working environment. Either very open culture which is no or minimal politics within the department as everyone knows how small hr community is so better be friends than be bad name...the other is politics and backstabbing which theres a lot of such espeically those who stay long in a company...HR is more than just recruitment. There are business partners, rewards, learning and development, hr ops and some even have hrit parked under hr functions...

The good thing i like in hr is knowing a lot of people but most wanted to know you for job lobangs only.