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Senior Compensation and Benefits Analyst APAC
The Kraft Heinz Company
s://.linkedin.com/jobs/view/174578233

Hi guys, wondered if you could give me some advice. I'm in banking ops for 5 years but there is no work life balance and earning 2.5k. I have a degree in business administration and was thinking to transition into HR. Do I need to take any courses or certifications to help me get in to HR? With my working experience, what type of HR job and salary can I hope for in the current market? Thanks!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi guys, wondered if you could give me some advice. I'm in banking ops for 5 years but there is no work life balance and earning 2.5k. I have a degree in business administration and was thinking to transition into HR. Do I need to take any courses or certifications to help me get in to HR? With my working experience, what type of HR job and salary can I hope for in the current market? Thanks!

Likely HR Officer/Exec roles, but I don't think it's easy to get an offer without any experience. Salary should be around 2.5k also.

Where is your degree from? FT or PT? Quite amazing you work 5 years in the bank and still at the salary level of fresh dip grads.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Likely HR Officer/Exec roles, but I don't think it's easy to get an offer without any experience. Salary should be around 2.5k also.

Where is your degree from? FT or PT? Quite amazing you work 5 years in the bank and still at the salary level of fresh dip grads.

Studied in Malaysia but cert is from UK. FT. Yeah to be honest I've been there too long as it's comfortable. Sometimes leave 9-10 and with that pay it's terrible.

I want to move out of banking... Would a CEI cert help as I have no experience?

I really wouldn't mind try anything to move industry haha

What I don't understand is why HR is considered a good career path. What do HR people actually do all day? For a HR person with, say, 15 years of experience, does it actually take only 1 to learn?

I find it hilarious how HR people are so full of themselves just because they are responsible for recruitment. Once people are actually hired, people have pretty poor impressions of HR. The HR people I've met seem to have to over-compensate for a diminished sense of self-importance and constantly justify why HR is such a difficult job.

I'm not denying that HR, like other departments, have a role to fulfil, but surely it's not that hard. So what do HR people do, that can't otherwise be taught/learned relatively quickly?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What I don't understand is why HR is considered a good career path. What do HR people actually do all day? For a HR person with, say, 15 years of experience, does it actually take only 1 to learn?

I find it hilarious how HR people are so full of themselves just because they are responsible for recruitment. Once people are actually hired, people have pretty poor impressions of HR. The HR people I've met seem to have to over-compensate for a diminished sense of self-importance and constantly justify why HR is such a difficult job.

I'm not denying that HR, like other departments, have a role to fulfil, but surely it's not that hard. So what do HR people do, that can't otherwise be taught/learned relatively quickly?

Recruitment is just a small and lower level function of HR just like Accounting is to Finance. Perhaps you should educate yourself more before ranting your ignorance everywhere.

Thanks for your answer, though not very informative. What are the higher level functions in HR then? I am genuinely interested to find out (not being sarcastic here).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thanks for your answer, though not very informative. What are the higher level functions in HR then? I am genuinely interested to find out (not being sarcastic here).

Try changing the culture of a Fortune 500 US MNC with >20,000 headcount globally.. or succession planning for the C-suite of a similar sized company.

Oh. the world you have not seen.

Wait... there is the Compensation and Benefits team too. How much should you be paying your top talent?

If I want to move my manufacturing plant >5,000 headcount from China to Bangladesh, what are the implications?

What? You had no idea these jobs in HR existed?

The stuff you described is a subset of the entire function called 'OPERATIONAL HR'.