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• Švarcová, Jena
• Stavjaníčková, Iva

Europe is facing an unprecedented increase in unemployment in the segment of young workers to 34 years. Partly it can be attributed to the phase of business cycle, but we can also observe changes in orientation of young people in specific groups of professions who are increasingly different from the structure of the economy and the requirements of companies in the Czech Republic - in the occupational group No 4 - Technology we can see an excess of demand of companies over supply of employees; and in the occupational group No 8 - Arts and Entertainment there is a large oversupply of students. This paper presents the results of research of students’ professional preferences with a special focus on students' interest about work in HR department. Roe’s classification was used for this research - profession of HR Manager belongs to the group of professions No 3 – Organization according to Roe. Research showed that students are very indefinite when choosing their profession and many of them choose 5 or more different professions to their portfolio. It could be problem because companies need HR Manager, who is straight focused on working with people. The research team used cluster analysis and the results showed that students with lower number of job preferences (1-4) choose suitable professions more often than students with a higher number of profession preferences. The result of this research is that HRM for HR department has to search students with low number of profession preferences who are focused for HR Manager Position.

• Economics and Business
• Social Sciences

• Professions
• Occupations
• Management

HR manager, professional focus, cluster analysis, the Czech Republic

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