-: Well, yeah, I mean the funny thing about HR is that
almost every person I've met in HR has
either a minor or a major in psych.
You know, it's like, what do you do with a psych major?
If you don't become a counselor or something active
in that realm, it seems like you go into HR
because you're working with people, you have to read people.
So I think that was funny because
I was a psych major and then I became a minor
because I didn't know what to do with it.
But I also went to graduate school and I went in
for teaching and so I didn't become a teacher
because we moved so many states and for my husband's job.
And so when I got into the human resources side,
training and development is a whole wing of human
resources, and that's kind of where
my role is starting to morph more into.
And so in engagement, there's also the training
and that really has a lot of ties to pedagogy and teaching,
even if it isn't social studies to high schoolers.
There's still a lot of assessment, that learner
understanding something that I think are
coming in really handy in what I'm doing.
Well, so I didn't think I wanted to be a recruiter.
I started off as an administrative assistant in
a recruitment area and then I eventually, long story short,
it just was the avenue I sort of went down.
And so I just was okay putting in
the work and working as an assistant.
And then I wanted to be a recruiter, but we had
moved out of state so I needed to
figure out a way to get more experience.
So I went and I became a recruiter at a staffing agency,
which is not where I wanted to end up.
But I knew that if I did that for a couple years
I'd get to be a corporate recruiter.
So I guess in my instance I wasn't afraid
to climb the ladder and put the work in
and get really good at each step
so that I was ready for the next step.
I think sometimes people think they're gonna
come out of school and they're gonna make 60,000
right off the bat because they know a friend
that did that and they wanna do that, too.
And you'll get there, you'll probably get past there,
but you have to put the work in.