11th Hour Degree Change and Questions

[mrs.b]

I have a cousin who has a bachelor's degree in HR and she has been limited in her career choices. While HR management does include some management skills, most will view it as an HR degree only. If you love HR and want to stay in HR I would stick with the HR focus. If you want to get into departmental management or think you might want your MBA down the road you might be better served by going the general management focus. I think it boils down to the type of work you like and the field you are in.

This is exactly what I worried about and started thinking through more thoroughly as I near the end. While I do many HR tasks in my present job, my duties are more of an Office Manager and also include production scheduling for a mfg facility, purchasing, inventory tracking, shipping, customer service, and AR. It is just one piece of what I do every day, but just happened to be the piece I'm the least cozy with and wanted additional training. That helped ease my mind that the change is probably best.

What about the business law DSST? If you have taken HR classes you might know a lot of the business law material. Management information systems was pretty doable with the flash cards and specific exam feedback, especially if you know some basic computer knowledge. The other option is the A&I literature or technical writing exams, as they are fairly easy, but I'm not sure where TESC assigns them as far as credits, so they might not be considered electives under your program of study. Good luck! BTW, I'm one to always come up with ways to make myself crazy by changing my mind at the end too! Sometimes as we get closer to our goal, we realize our goalpost wasn't placed correctly, so we have to move it!!!

Once upon a time, I took Business Law as a course. A&I Lit and Technical Writing are possible. I looked at Technical Writing a while back in the hopes it would fill Managerial Communications, but TESC would not assign it that way so I tossed it aside. I do remember looking it over and thinking I could pass it without much work, though. I'll check these out to see if they'll fill Free Electives without duplicating other courses on my eval.

Thanks Marianne!