Rising health care costs should spur demand for specialists to develop compensation and benefit plans. Persons with knowledge in fields such as human resources information systems, labor relations and international experience should also find good opportunities. Aptitudes and Training. Work in this field requires good math and communications skills. Patience and the ability to deal with people with different points of view are also important.
Employers generally prefer people with a bachelor's degree.
Useful major fields include personnel administration, industrial and labor relations and general business. Increasingly, personnel officers are seeking advanced degrees in business administration or industrial relations. In most corporate environments, post-graduate degrees are the standard.