How HR people choose their career? -

Abstract

There are many aspects that influence an individual’s career choice. One of the career choices that an individual may choose is Human Resource Management. The aim of this project is to study and analyze how and why people choose HR as a career, and what are the factors and influences that affect their occupation decisions or guide them to select this specific choice. Some individuals struggle to achieve their childhood career fantasies, others follow their family members’ career paths, act upon their family members will, refer to their peer’s experiences and opinions, choose certain occupations that are desirable in the market, or choose career opportunities that are aligned with their abilities, personalities, wants or needs. Some individuals pick certain career paths and at some point discover that this is not what they want to do. In this case, a dilemma occurs with regards to whether they would change their careers or not. Those factors among others are studied and analyzed in this project to see the major ones that affected HR individuals in their selections of this profession. Twenty HR people that are based in Lebanon were interviewed, ten of which are students who chose HR as a major of study and ten who are HR professionals that have experience for at least two years in the market in any field. The finding suggests that Human Resource Management will continue to be a career choice due to the increase of organizational awareness with regards to the importance of this function and the importance of the roles of HR professionals in achieving the strategic aims of originations. However, certain dynamics and motives may influence individuals’ career journeys and may lead them to certain directions that may be not aligned with their capabilities, characters, or wants. Based on this projects’ findings, family, society, and peers majorly influenced the interviewees decisions in choosing their careers. On top of that, lack of guidance throughout the interviewees’ lives caused