Human Resources Managers
Job description
These individuals plan, direct, and assess the activities of a human resources department. They develop policies, programs, and procedures.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Plan and recruit workforce.
- Classify and evaluate positions.
- Administer staff development, language training, health, safety, and wellness programs.
- Assist department heads in interpreting and applying personnel policies.
- Organize and conduct briefings.
- Coordinate compensation and benefits services.
- Negotiate collective agreements.
- Ensure that good relations are maintained between staff and management.
- Participate in committee meetings.
- Assume a leadership role in addition to being a business partner for the company.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $36.06
- Median
- $57.69
- Maximum
- $77.61
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
13,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 65% Female
- 35% Male
Not available.
- 65% Female
- 35% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$100,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 9117% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 567% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6237% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 457% of jobs
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NAICS 48, 495% of jobs
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Others57% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 9117% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 567% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6237% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 457% of jobs
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NAICS 48, 495% of jobs
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Others57% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- Bachelor's degree in a field related to Personnel Management, such as:
- Business Administration
- Industrial Relations
- Trade
- Psychology
- Several years of experience as a personnel officer or human resources specialist are required.
- Occupational health and safety (OHS) training or managing a team that has the knowledge to manage an OHS program.
Sometimes required
- A Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) or a Certified Industrial Relations Professional (CIRC) designation may be required or an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Human resource management
- Reading comprehension
- Judgment and decision-making
- Coordination
- Written expression
- Negotiation
- Social perception
- Solving complex problems
- Active learning
- Systems evaluation
- Critical thought
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Result evaluation
- Time management
- Persuasion
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Idea generation
- Classification
- Information organization
- Originality
- Selective attention
- Basic numeracy
- Mathematical reasoning
- Information processing speed
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Diplomacy
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Sense of initiative
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Sense of equity
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 10011
Human resources managers
Job titles
- Personnel chief
- Personnel administration manager
- Human resources management director
- Human resources director
- Recruiting director
- Employment equity chief
- Classification and compensation chief
- Staffing chief
- Training chief
- Staff training and development chief
- Chief safety officer - occupational health and safety
- Official languages chief
- Staff relations chief
- Wage and salary administration manager
- Salary research and administration manager
- Employment equity director - human resources
- Job evaluation and salary research manager
- Pay-processing division director - government services
- Training and development manager
- Personnel training and development manager
- Language training director
- Occupational training director - human resources
- Human resources planning manager
- Compensation director
- Pay and benefits director
- Occupational health and safety director
- Disability management program manager
- Benefits manager
- Official languages manager
- Pensions and benefits manager
- Employer-employee relations manager
- Industrial relations manager
- Pay services director - human resources
- Personnel services director
- Human resources development director
- Human resources development and planning director
- Personnel director
- Personnel and industrial relations director
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026
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