Human Resources Professionals
Job description
These individuals are responsible for human resources and labour relations activities. They provide information to management and employees of an organization on these issues.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Develop job classifications and descriptions, salary scales, and evaluation measures.
- Provide advice on labour relations issues.
- Plan and coordinate programs (staffing, compensation, training, employee assistance, equity, etc.).
- Keep human resources information up to date.
- Stay up dated on benefits, health, and safety practices.
- Make recommendations on existing policies.
- Provide information to management and employees on the interpretation of human resource policies.
- Negotiate collective agreements and mediate labour disputes and grievances.
- Play a strategic role as a business partner.
- Participate in the attraction and retention of jobs.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $23.00
- Median
- $35.53
- Maximum
- $54.00
Job prospects for 2023-2027
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Job prospects for 2023-2027
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2022
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 73.4% Female
- 26.6% Male
- 73.4% Female
- 26.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
-
NAICS 9126% of jobs
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NAICS 8111% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54177% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6235% of jobs
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NAICS 615% of jobs
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Others46% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 9126% of jobs
-
NAICS 8111% of jobs
-
NAICS 5416, 54177% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6235% of jobs
-
NAICS 615% of jobs
-
Others46% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
University
Business administration
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 84.1%
12.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 92%
3.1% of graduates pursue further studies
- HEC Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
- TÉLUQ
Business management and administration
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 93%
1.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 93.3%
3.5% of graduates pursue further studies
- HEC Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- McGill University
Guidance counselling or educational and vocational information
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 65.5%
30.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 95.2%
Industrial relations
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 87%
10.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 97.4%
2.6% of graduates pursue further studies
Law
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 62.5%
32% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 87.8%
9.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Personnel management
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 87.7%
6.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 88.6%
2.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Designation as a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) or Industrial Relations Consultant (IRC) may be required or considered an asset.
- Training acquired through a professional development program in human resources management.
- Payroll Compliance Specialist (PCS) certification may be considered an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Information processing
- Written expression
- Coordination
- Judgment and decision-making
- Social perception
- Active learning
- Result evaluation
- Time management
- Human resource management
- Service oriented
- Solving complex problems
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Speech clarity
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Inductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Knowledge of the French language
- Autonomy
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Versatility
- Rigour
- Attention to detail
- Capacity to be discrete
- Creativity
- Capacity to facilitate a group
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Create, design
- Assist and advise
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- 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 11200
Human resources professionals
Job titles
- Staff training coordinator
- Training adviser
- Human resources management consultant
- Compensation consultant
- Human resources adviser
- Staff relations administrator
- Labour organization liaison officer
- Bargaining agent
- Senior negotiating officer - labour dispute resolution
- Senior industrial relations officer
- Labour organization agent
- Employment equity officer
- Labour relations board officer
- Classification officer - human resources
- Position classifier
- Conciliation officer - employee relations
- Staff training officer - human resources
- Staff training and development officer
- Personnel research officer
- Human resources research officer
- Compensation officer
- Personnel standards officer
- Human resources policy officer
- Employment practices officer
- Employee relations officer
- Labour relations officer
- Industrial relations officer
- Labour relations returning officer
- Employee services officer
- Job evaluation analyst
- Compensation and classification analyst
- Job analyst
- Occupational analyst - human resources
- Job and wage analyst
- Human resources policy analyst
- Salary analyst
- Job classification system analyst
- Compensation research analyst
- Labour adjudicator
- Conciliator - labour
- Conseiller en relations industrielles agréé
- Conseiller en ressources humaines agréé
- Union adviser
- Employment equity adviser - human resources
- Benefits consultant
- Employment adviser - human resources
- Classification policy adviser
- Labour relations consultant
- Industrial relations consultant
- Training and development consultant
- Human resources planning consultant
- Human resources consultant
- Human resources coordinator - canadian armed forces
- Disability management coordinator
- Employment equity coordinator
- Compensation and benefits coordinator
- Employer-employee relations coordinator
- Labour relations coordinator
- Human resources coordinator
- In-house training manager
- Job evaluator
- Human resources generalist
- Claims manager - compensation and benefits
- Disability case manager - human resources
- Mediator
- Labour organization negotiator
- Collective agreement negotiator
- Union organizer
- Disability management practitioner
- Certified disability management professional
- Disability management professional
- Labour organizer
- Labour organization business representative
- Classification specialist
- Labour relations specialist
- Disability management specialist
- Human resources specialist
- Job evaluation supervisor
- Training programs supervisor
- Staff training and development supervisor
- Human resources program supervisor
- Human resources supervisor
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: February 14, 2024