>> For students pursuing HR, human resources, as a career, you could go a number of ways.
If you have a financial [inaudible] to you, you may want to focus on compensation and benefits
because that can be actually a very lucrative HR career.
If you start out as a generalist, you can evolve into a specialist.
I think a generalist is a good way to go if you're really not sure what you want to be.
A generalist is a good way to see all areas of HR.
And that's what I am, I'm a generalist.
If they have a slant towards either
like employee relations would be someone who's maybe more into counseling, management,
coaching, performance management, that sort of thing, if they are, again,
the financial track could be potentially the compensation and benefits side.
If you're a really great speaker and you like being with people and bringing them along,
training and development is a great part of HR that I'm not particularly skilled in,
but I know some great training people that they are, they are such specialist
and they are phenomenal at what they do.
And when a student goes to one of their training classes,
they learn something and they're engaged.
And those people are incredibly valuable as well.
So there is a number of different tracks you could go.
It really just depends on how much the student knows about what they want.
If they don't know enough, I say the generalist path works very well.