My suggestion is not to waste your degree on something like HR. You will need to start off as some sort of HR Exec doing mainly admin and customer service work. It will probably take you at least 5 years to get to what you get as a fresh grad lawyer.

If you don't like law, there are a lot of other jobs out there that can better make use of your talent.

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Can someone advise what salary a foreign worker looking for HR jobs in recruitment and training should ask for in interviews? The person in question is on DP, with 4.5 years of experience in IT recruitment and training overseas, one year of which is in APAC. A few interviews attended went well but didn't convert to an offer, primary suspect being the compensation asked for.

Thanks

Jr recruiter basic range from 1.5-2.5k + commissions if sales kpi is met.

Even with CEI Basic? That's quite low. And I guess I know the reasons for rejection now. Quoted expectation was 3K.

Erm... don't think anyone cares about CEI, it's just a standard cert that people 'buy' because it's required in the industry. Recruiter is basically a sales job and they tend to pay pretty low monthly basic.

The idea is you need to meet targets to unlock the incentives to top up the basic salary. Some recruiters are not even paid any basic and operate solely on commission/advance.

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.

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