About the course
Reasons to study
- Over 77% of our students achieve a first or a second upper degree regardless of their background, ethnicity, abilities, financial background, or any other characteristics.
- You'll have the opportunity to achieve a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) qualification in Management and Leadership.
- You'll have the opportunity to undertake a work placement, providing real-world experience of a range of industry settings.
Why Business with Human Resource Management?
People are the most important resource in any organisation. Businesses are eager to recruit talented individuals, and to keep them too. This course enables you to specialise in human resource (HR) management so you can understand the role it plays in business, and how you can play a part in the industry too.
We’ll start by looking at how to manage and develop people in organisations, explore the varied roles of people management specialists and line managers in areas such as people resourcing, employment relations, diversity, and inclusion. You will also look at how training and developing employees can add value to an organisation, how investing in staff in this way builds employee engagement, develop skills, and maximises competitive advantage through people.
How will you learn?
You will learn through lectures, workshops, seminars, live and client-facing projects, you will also have lots of opportunity for practical application.
- We work closely with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and you’ll have the opportunity to achieve a professional CMI qualification in Management and Leadership through no additional study or assessment.
- We’ll give you the opportunity to work with our own HR professionals to create CVs and portfolios, and hone those essential interview skills. Our aim is to help you to become as employable as possible within the HR arena.
- The course also gives you the chance to take a placement year working in a business in the UK or overseas. You’ll be able to put the HR theory you’ve learnt into practice, which is exactly what employers are looking for.
Previous students have benefited from placements with organisations such as Majestic Wine, JN Bentley, NHS Commissioning Support Unit and Walker Morris LLP.
What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as Human Resource Management, Managing People, Leadership Theory and Practice, Understanding Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Development and The Future of Work.
The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.
Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.
Previous placement providers have included Adobe, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Erina Services Ltd, Fairmont Hotels, Freeman Grattan Holdings (FGH), General Electric (GE), Harley-Davidson, Hays Recruitment, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, KFC, Microsoft, National Physical Laboratory, PPG Architectural Coatings EMEA, PwC, Sainsbury's, sia Fibral, Siemens, Thornton and Ross and White Lodging.
The placement year is a valuable tool that can enhance your employability and help you to develop as an individual. It is acknowledged that graduates with industry experience are generally much more attractive to employers.
You can find more information on placements here.
Your Career
Previous graduates from this course have gone on to roles such as human resources manager, human resources business partner, director of human resources, executive officer and team manager in organisations including the NHS, Asda. Deluxe Beds, Manchester City Football Club, Morrisons, the UK Civil Service and Bosch.**
* Percentage of graduates from this course who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA 19/20 data, UK domiciled graduates)**Source: LinkedIn
Professional link and Accreditations
You can register with the Chartered Management Institute, providing a further qualification and enhancing your CV through membership of a professional body. Upon successful completion of the course and after completing the registration, you’ll have the opportunity to achieve a CMI qualification in Management and Leadership.
Huddersfield Business School is an accredited member of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Less than 6% of business schools worldwide have obtained this prestigious accreditation.
AACSB-accredited schools have successfully undergone a rigorous review process conducted by their peers in the business education community, ensuring that they have the resources, credentials, and commitment needed to provide students with a first-rate, future-focused business education. As a result, AACSB-accredited schools produce graduates who are highly skilled and more desirable to employers than other non-accredited schools.
These accreditations are reviewed on a regular basis.
Career support
We know you’re coming to university to study on your chosen subject, meet new people and broaden your horizons. However, we also help you to focus on life after you have graduated to ensure that your hard work pays off and you achieve your ambition.
So while you’re here (and even after you graduate) the Careers and Employability Service offer professional help, support and guidance, including industry-supported workshops, careers fairs and one-to-one guidance sessions. Find out more about the service
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