Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management

at Niagara College - Toronto Campus Canada

Are you a numbers aficionado who prides yourself on attention to detail and wants to invest your career in finance?
As a graduate of the Business – Accounting program you have mastered the knowledge and skills to succeed in financial and managerial accounting roles.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on, experiential learning via case studies, computer applications and role-playing.
• Individualized support from professionally accredited/designated accounting faculty.
• Unique bridge to three-year Business Administration-Accounting (Academic or Co-op).
• Option to acquire a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation via diploma articulation to a qualifying degree program recognized by CPA Ontario.

Are you a working professional with a focus on human resources (HR) or management who dreams of playing a lead role in caring for an organization’s most important asset – its people?

As a Human Resources Management graduate, you possess specialized knowledge in labour law, occupational health and safety, labour relations and compensation and recruitment, enabling you to work in all aspects of HR.

Program Highlights

• Designed to complement prior education in other disciplines.
• Professors have significant HR industry experience.
• Applied learning opportunities including an internship with 300 hours of practical HR experience.
• Connect with industry leaders via guest speakers, alumni, industry events and associations including the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) and the Human Resources Professional Association of Niagara (HRPAN).

Are you interested in an exciting and rewarding career in business and want to explore your entrepreneurial and industry options? As a Business graduate, you are ready to lead an entrepreneurial venture, take charge of the family business or improve the operational efficiency of an organization.

Program Highlights

• Develop fundamental skills to thrive in today’s fast-paced, complex business world.
• Blend of business foundation and special interest courses.
• Maximum flexibility in transferring courses from business studies at Niagara College or other post-secondary institutions.
• Pathways into select degree and advanced diploma programs at NC.

Are you fascinated by current trends in web development, the latest software, or your favourite mobile phone app?
As a Computer Programmer, you are adept at databases, interactive multimedia and software development and poised for success in the digital world.

Program Highlights

• Unique mix of business, multimedia, and software development courses.
• Hundreds of hours of hands-on lab work combined with in-course community sponsored projects and applied research opportunities.
• Graduates choose between workforce entry and progression into NC’s Computer Programming and Analysis (Co-op) program.

Are you a service-oriented professional looking to increase your managerial and leadership skills in preparation for a larger hospitality or tourism role in Canada or across the globe?
As a graduate of the Hospitality and Tourism Management program you will have the specialized training needed to take on increasingly senior roles in the global hospitality and tourism marketplace.

Program Highlights

• Gain managerial, communication and leadership skills critical to your success.
• 125 acre Niagara-on-the Lake campus is located in the heart of Canada’s growing hospitality and tourism industry with full-service living labs including the NC Teaching Spa and Benchmark, a student-led restaurant.
• Strong focus on developing leadership through technology and teamwork with a program outline shaped by industry professionals.
• Gain hands-on learning through service learning that offers specific niche experience in hospitality and tourism, or research opportunities.

Are you a global thinker interested in expanding your knowledge of international commerce to pursue employment in the global marketplace?
As an International Business Management graduate you will have mastered the core concepts of international commerce and will be well prepared to take on a challenging role in the international business sector.

Program Highlights

• Proximity to one of the world’s busiest international borders provides high-value experiential learning opportunities in the international commerce arena.
• Hands-on learning.
• Faculty members have diverse international business experience.
• Designed to compliment prior education in various fields.

Do you have a natural ability to influence others and want to explore a career in sales and marketing?
As a Business – Sales and Marketing graduate you have the specific skills and abilities needed to play a leading role in today’s competitive business environment.

Program Highlights

• Exposure to all aspects of a sales and marketing career via applied learning opportunities that incorporate project-based learning, computer training and a flexible 120-hour immersive internship working with industry leaders.
• Graduates have a 90% success rate finding employment.
• Faculty mentorship and outstanding student success competing in provincial, national and international sales and marketing competitions.
• Sales and Marketing graduates will be eligible to pursue a Certified Sales Associate (CSA) designation from the Canadian Professional Sales Association (CPSA), a national association that offers tools, sales training and resources to support the success of sales professionals.