HR and Labor

Look in to a Masters in Human Resources/Labor and Industrial Relations. Cornell's Master of Industrial and Labor Relations program is arguably the best in the country and the careers that this degree can lead to seem like they might be right down your boyfriend's ally. Before you discount HR as solely a personnel/transactional type career let me give you a little more information. More and more Fortune 500 companies are using HR as a part of their strategy planning team and HR plays a key role in the recruiting, development, deployment, and compensation of employees throughout the company. The completion of each of these functions requires more and more use and application of technology via social media tools and other related things. Just food for thought. I'm a current student in the program mentioned above, and it's been a great experience thus far with a bright future.

So I saw your question and I thought I would give a quick response...I think you should look into either a career in HR which gives you a lot of opportunity to use the things you seem to be looking for. I'm currently a Masters student at Cornell doing the Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (MILR) program at Cornell and and finding it to be very engaging, and the career prospects to be very good. If you don't think that's for you Cornell also has a really good mediator program that seems like it would be right down your ally as well. This link http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/conflictRes/about/ gives more information about it. It's a very interesting field to be in. Regards,

Rutgers has a good program, and they claim to have the most cited faculty in the industry, but this seems like it may be an inaccurate claim. The top schools if you want to do a masters in HR are as follows, 1. Cornell's Masters of Industrial and Labor Relations, 2. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 3. Michigan State and 4. University of Minnesota. I'm sure that each school would probably argue that it is actually the best, but Cornell wins because it has the Ivy League reputation and interactions top executives from Fortune 500 companies that the others just don't quite have. I am currently a masters student at Cornell so I may be a little biased, but it's true.