Become an HR Manager
A career in human resources management is focused around people skills – whether it’s recruiting and developing staff, overseeing strategy or managing the HR department. Start your HR career with short online human resources courses from top universities.
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What skills do you need to become an HR manager?
Policy
An HR manager will need to have a strong understanding of human resources policy, and the legal issues around recruitment and staffing a company.
Organisation
HR professionals keep track of vast amounts of personal information, including contracts, calendars and companies' personnel strategies.
Relationships
Working in HR, you'll build relationships with people across all levels, and trusted to deal with personal information such as salaries and grievances.
Understanding
Empathy and understanding are key as you’ll be working closely with people from a diverse range of backgrounds and with different needs.
Develop these skills. Take a short human resources management course
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The benefits of taking an HR manager course online with FutureLearn
Learn flexibly online
Develop valuable skills with an HR management course. Start learning for free, on desktop, tablet or mobile.
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