How to become a personnel or Human resource officer

Official title: Personnel/Human resource officer

Also called: Human resource (HR) development officer, Human resource (HR) officer, Personnel executive, Personnel officer, Placement officer, Assistant Crewing Manager, Cabin Crew Executive, Executive, Performance and Rewards, Executive, Talent Attraction and Employee Experience and Relations, Ÿ Human resource (HR) development officer, Ÿ Personnel executive, Ÿ Placement officer

Personnel/Human resource officer develops and implements strategies that help their employers select and retain appropriately qualified staff within that business sector. He/she recruits staff, prepares job advertisements, interviews and short-lists people, negotiates with employment agencies, and sets up working conditions. He/she also administers the payroll, reviews salaries and advises on remuneration benefits and employment law. He/she may arrange for training opportunities to enhance employees’ performance.

Main tasks

• Providing consultancy services on personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
• Studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained
• Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupation analyses in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training, or occupational information and vocational guidance

Ways in

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

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $48,000 a year. The middle half earn $40,440 to $55,260 a year.
• Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Human resource consultant (excluding executive search consultant)
• Executive search consultant
• Industrial relations officer

Not sure this is for you? Take the 2-minute career quiz

Questions people ask

How do I become a personnel or Human resource officer?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

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

Median full-time pay is $48,000 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $40,440 to $55,260.

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

Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, 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