Career options for Business Law at Murdoch University

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Career options

As a Business Law graduate, your employment outlook is bright, especially if you combine it with other disciplines. Depending on which skill combinations or specialisations you have, your Murdoch degree may lead you towards work and study opportunities in a number of areas. The following are some professions to consider, including extra majors and minors that will improve your prospects of achieving them.

Industrial Relations Management

Industrial Relations Managers and their staffs implement industrial labour relations programs. Industrial Relations Specialists prepare information for management to use during collective bargaining agreement negotiations, a process that requires the specialist to be familiar with economic and wage data and to have extensive knowledge of labour law and collective bargaining trends. The labour relations staff interprets and administers the contract with respect to grievances, wages and salaries, employee welfare, health care, pensions, union and management practices, and other contractual stipulations.

Recruiter

Recruiters maintain contacts within the community and may travel considerably, often to college campuses, to search for promising job applicants. Recruiters screen, interview, and occasionally test applicants. They also may check references and extend job offers. These workers must be thoroughly familiar with the organisation and its human resources policies in order to discuss wages, working conditions, and promotional opportunities with prospective employees.

Conciliator / Mediator

Conciliators, or Mediators, advise and counsel labour and management to prevent and, when necessary, resolve disputes over labour agreements or other labour relations issues. Arbitrators, occasionally called umpires or referees, decide disputes that bind both labour and management to specific terms and conditions of labour contracts. Labour relations specialists who work for unions perform many of the same functions on behalf of the union and its members.