How to become a personnel or Human resource manager

Official title: Personnel/Human resource manager

Also called: Chief human resource (HR) officer, Head of human resource (HR), Human resource (HR) director, Human resource (HR) manager, Personnel manager, Cabin Crew Manager, Chief Human Resource Officer, Crewing Manager, Head, HR Business Partner, Head, Operations and Technology, Head, Performance and Rewards, Head, Talent Attraction

Personnel/Human resource manager plans, designs and implements processes related to the human capital of companies. He/she develops programmes for recruiting, interviewing, and selecting employees based on the profiles and skills required in the company. He/she manages compensation and development programmes for the company’s employees comprising trainings, skill assessments and yearly evaluations, promotion, expatriate programmes, and general assurances of the well-being of the employees in the workplace.

Main tasks

• Planning, directing and coordinating the personnel and industrial relations activities, policies and practices of an enterprise or organisation
• Planning and organising procedures for recruitment, training, promotion, determination of wage structures and negotiations about wages, liaison and consultation with workers and related personnel matters
• Establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources
• Establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures
• Overseeing the development and implementation of management information systems
• Ensuring compliance with standards and legislation relating to employees’ rights, equal opportunity and related concerns
• Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff for the entire enterprise or organisation
• Consulting with senior management and with managers of other departments

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $98,364 a year. The middle half earn $69,324 to $155,028 a year.
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Industrial relations manager
• Training manager
• Budgeting/Financial accounting manager
• Administration manager
• Audit manager
• Policy manager

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Questions people ask

How do I become a personnel or Human resource manager?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

How much does a personnel or Human resource manager earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $98,364 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $69,324 to $155,028.

Will AI change the work of a personnel or Human resource manager?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026