Human Resources Specialists: where your skills can take you
Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.
Usual study level (from US data): Bachelor degree (uni — or check Cert/Diploma + experience pathways first)
Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.
Three moves that use what a human resources specialist already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Human Resources Assistants
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, looking after customers and clients, bringing people around to an idea and negotiating.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (39%).
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Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, negotiating and teaching other people.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (56%).
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Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
Labor Relations Specialists
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, negotiating, bringing people around to an idea and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (43%).
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Resolve disputes between workers and managers, negotiate collective bargaining agreements, or coordinate grievance procedures to handle employee complaints.
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O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.
Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.