Human Resources Specialist

Career Area: Human Resources

Occupation Group: Human Resources Specialists

Salary

Percentile wages tell how much a certain percentage of an overall population in a geographic area or within a given industry or field makes. The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall.

An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Human Resources Specialist earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $48,742

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $50,514

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Works for a human resources department to implement the provisions of a labor contract, including employee wages and benefits and other practices that are collectively bargained; may also handle an internal grievance process established under a labor contract.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Human Resources Specialist is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Onboarding: Onboarding, also known as organizational socialization, refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.
• Human Resource Information System (HRIS): A Human Resource Management System or HRIS (Human Resource Information System) is a form of HR software that combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of a business's employees and data.
• Employee Relations: Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship.
• New Hire Orientation: Working experience of New Hire Orientation. New employee orientation is the process you use for welcoming a new employee into your organization. The goal of new employee orientation is to help the new employee feel welcomed, integrated into the organization, and performing the new job successfully as quickly as possible.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Human Resources Specialist that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Talent Management: Talent management refers to the anticipation of required human capital for an organization and the planning to meet those needs.
• Applicant Tracking System: An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a software application that enables the electronic handling of recruitment needs.
• Labor Relations: Labor relations is the study and practice of managing unionized employment situations.
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
• Employee Training: Employee Training is to improve current or future employee performance by increasing an employee's ability to perform through learning, usually by changing the employee's attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Human Resources Generalist
• Human Resources Coordinator
• Human Resources Specialist
• Human Resources Representative
• Human Resources Associate

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• Human Resources Manager
• Human Resources Consultant
• Human Resources Assistant
• Human Resources Administrative Assistant
• Director of Human Resources
• Recruiting Assistant