I am a research masters student in human resource management at the AUT Business School.
While HR is my passion, bread and butter these days, I have a mixed educational background. I studied computer science and economics at my undergrad and although I was not particularly discontent with my study, on my 3rd year I took an elective paper on management. The paper was barely management 101, but it was more than enough to excite me and eventually made me rethink my educational and career path.
After finishing my bachelor I enrolled for a one year graduate program on human resource management and not surprisingly, the more I read, the more I got interested in it.
Soon after finishing that program, I joined a large commercial bank as a Human Resource Officer. The job gave me the much needed insight on how HR theories meet practices and although I loved every second of my work, I knew this was not the full story and there is more to HR than recruiting people or managing employee pay and benefit.
So I decided to take a break from my stint in corporate and returned back to academia. Since then I have read a lot, took higher level papers and I became intrigued by the potential of HR, especially the strategic aspects of HR. I realized strategic HR is where all the fun lies and this is where I wish to spend more of my time.