-: There's a lot of great things you can do
to get involved in human resources
and to get prepared for a career in HR.
I worked in our admissions office.
I gave presentations and reviewed applications
for people coming in to Ball State,
which was great experience to get to know
what the acquisition, talent acquisition, piece looked like.
I also worked as a resident assistant,
which is a great piece to get to know
employee relations and how to deal with people
and how to have hard conversations with people.
I also had great internships,
and I would recommend anyone to have internships
in different industries and different parts of HR,
even if you think you know what you want to do.
I used to think I only wanted to do talent acquisition,
and when I had the opportunity
for this HR generalist business partner type of role,
it opened my eyes to a lot of different possibilities
that I didn't know were there previously.
Well, the human resources curriculum here
is really great.
The general business class curriculum
is helpful because a lot of people
get into human resources thinking
they'll never have to do math
or never have to do the maybe harder aspects of that.
But it was really important to have those analytics classes
and those economics classes to have a broader thinking
versus just coming into it with an HR background.
But also, I had really great classes in compensation
that I wish I had paid more attention to.
I would have understood it a lot more.
And benefits, benefits was really important
because even now there's a lot of people I work with
who don't understand our benefits plans
or don't understand how to read their benefits
or to enroll in those.
So it would have been a lot more helpful to have that.