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5 Reasons Why HR Managers Choose Competency-Based Programs When Earning Their Master’s Degree

The self-paced model offers a flexible path to an MS in Human Resource Management degree.

Many HR professionals use competency-based learning to help employees in their organizations enhance their skills. By offering courses in self-paced, online modules, there’s no need to find a time that works for everyone or a meeting room that’s big enough, or during the COVID-19 pandemic, jam-pack a Zoom session.

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But even as an HR manager, you may not be aware that you can advance your own education and career by earning a human resources master’s degree online in a competency-based learning format. Here are five reasons why HR managers are choosing competency-based learning to earn master’s degrees:

  • Set Your Schedule
    HR managers help others learn to maximize their time. So, choosing to earn a master’s degree online in a competency-based learning format is an excellent personal time management choice. Walden University’s Tempo Learning® format lets you log in to your MS in Human Resource Management degree program whenever you want, and wherever you have an internet connection.
  • Build HR Career Competencies
    Competency-based education is an exciting higher education paradigm shift. Instead of progressing course by course, you’ll move ahead by demonstrating you’ve mastered competencies, which are the skills, knowledge, and abilities you need to be successful in your human resources career.
  • Customize Your Pace
    Walden’s MS in Human Resource Management degree program in the Tempo Learning® format is custom-paced. There are no weekly deadlines, and your foot is on the pedal: Speed up or slow down as circumstances allow. Competency-based learning can help you balance earning a human resources master’s degree with work and life demands.
  • Manage Your Costs 
    Tempo Learning is an all-you-can-learn model. That means you’ll subscribe to three-month learning periods, and during each period, you determine how many HR degree competencies you complete. This helps you manage the cost of earning your online MS in Human Resource degree. Time to completion varies by student.
  • Add Value in Real Time
    As you progress through your online master’s degree program in the competency-based learning format, you can bring these fresh ideas and skills to the workplace. In Walden’s human resources master’s degree program, you’ll develop competencies in areas such as benefits, compensation, and resource allocation; conflict management and negotiation; organizational effectiveness and leadership; and HR analytics.

Widen HR Career Vistas

Walden’s MS in Human Resource Management online degree program can help you prepare for a wider range of HR career opportunities in a field that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is growing at a faster-than-average pace.1 Today’s HR leaders are also needed to help address the complex workforce challenges COVID-19 is presenting and to help organizations rebound in the post-pandemic world.

Walden aligns its online HR degree program with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates. This helps ensure you’re accruing the next-level skills that may position you for HR career options that include:

  • Compensation/benefits manager
  • HR manager or specialist
  • Labor relations specialist
  • Training and development specialist or manager
  • Business teacher, postsecondary
  • Organizational development manager and specialist

Career options may require additional experience, training, or other factors beyond the successful completion of this degree program.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that through 2029, there will be an average of approximately 13,300 openings for HR managers each year.2 If HR career enhancement or advancement is a personal goal, you may find that earning your master’s in a competency-based learning format is just the right strategic move.

Walden University is an accredited institution offering an online MS in Human Resource Management degree program in a Tempo Learning® format. Expand your career options and earn your degree in a convenient, flexible format that fits your busy life.

1Source: www.bls.gov/ooh/management/human-resources-managers.htm
2Source: www.bls.gov/ooh/management/human-resources-managers.htm#tab-6

Walden University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission, www.hlcommission.org.

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