All the HR people I've met have qualifications. In fact HR courses are very popular at colleges and similar schools because much like polysci or psychology majors at universities any fucking half wit can graduate. The difference of course is that with a degree in HR you might actually get a job someday. Doesn't mean you're qualified though, except in the eyes of HR. Think about it; are you really able to work with both corporate management and employees for the better of both? Not fucking likely, because you don't know anything about either except what you've been taught by equally out of touch and clueless instructors. I've never met someone with an HR degree that had either worked in a line position long enough to appreciate what that life is like OR who had the faintest idea what it was like to run a company. Yet senior mgmt is happy to hand over the reins and say "Here, you deal with the employees, so that we don't have to." I've yet to met a single HR graduate that 1. wasn't power mad and vindictive, and 2. had any practical idea of what it's like to actually work with people, as opposed to tell them what you 'know' is right for them. Time was the HR dept, if there was one, was staffed with employees who had worked for the the company, or within the industry, for long enough to understand it from both perspectives -- corporate and worker -- and had shown an ability to work with both sides fairly. Now they're just little dictators and woe betide yo if you cross them. Fuck those useless SOBs, fuck them all.