Working in a negative work environment may not inspire some, but not Roxanne Curl. This was the motivation she needed to pursue a degree in Human Resources (HR) and become the change she knew she wanted after dealing with her past work environments.

“So many of my jobs, the work environment felt toxic – or like nobody got it,” Curl explains. “In my last job, it was under terrible management. I just don’t think people should feel frustrated coming into work, so I wanted to be the change.”

In December 2018, Curl graduated from Rasmussen College with aBachelor’s degree in Human Resources and Organizational Leadership. Shortly after graduating, Curl accomplished her goal of being the positive change for a company’s work environment by getting her dream job working as the first human resources employee for a small printing company.

Curl’s initial introduction to Rasmussen College was at a benefit fair organized by Will County, Illinois. She knew pursuing a degree in HR was a step she wanted to take in life and Rasmussen College was able to work with her to make it happen.

这不是第一次蜷缩回到学校。此前，她在社区学院担任卫生信息管理副学士学位。但是，该计划对她并不适合她，她从未结束完成学位。在Rasmussen开始旅程，卷曲更加了解了她需要做什么类型的支持和计划，以使她的教育追求成功。

“My student advisor was amazing. Everything was set up for me. I didn’t have to think about anything,” Curl states.

Coming into the program, Curl knew she would be able to move faster toward her Bachelor’s degree, because Rasmussen College worked to make her credits from her previous college transfer into her degree program. Curl was also able to get her degree completelyonline, which allowed her to focus on what really mattered: her classes.

“我能够专注于让教育、“坏蛋l states. “Not worrying about if I’ll get the course I need or even what courses I need to take next. I had advisors who said ‘this is your course schedule’ and I was able to work through it.”

This is not to say Curl wasn’t able to adapt her semester schedules to her life. In fact, while pursuing her degree, she knew she would have to have back surgery. Thanks to Rasmussen College’sFlex-Choice program, which allowed her to do self-directed assessments, she was able to move quicker through those assessments and give herself a much lighter class and homework load while she recovered from her surgery.

The efficiency of her program was paired with substantive classwork. “The way they are set up is awesome,” she states. “What you start with you are going to use throughout your entire degree. My beginning classes, the things that I learned, I was using in my final classes.”

The structure and learning material for the program is intentionally structured at Rasmussen College. The curriculum is aligned with education standards in the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates, as well as the HR Certification Institute’s (HRCI) guidelines. The program is designed to help students like Curl gain the skills that employers seek and give students the skills needed to help a business’s most-valued resource: its people.

Curl is now working for a small printing company, Johnson Press for America, Inc., as their first human resource employee. This has given her the opportunity to lean into what she has learned at Rasmussen and begin building an HR foundation for the company. More importantly, she has been able to help create the environment she wanted in her previous job.

Now Curl works with individual employees on professional development, is leading the hiring process for new employees, and has taken on large HR projects for the company such as re-writing the employee handbook.

卷曲解释说，即使是现在，毕业后，当她有疑问或想法时，她才能达到她的疑问或想法。

虽然卷曲的人力资源的道路是她原来的职业道路的后来分支，但它是她所做的欣喜若狂的职业开关，拉斯穆森学院很自豪能够帮助这种生命过渡。

卷曲解释：“Rasmussen易于使用，他们的学士学位快速轨道结构非常完美。在不到两年的时间里，我在人力资源中获得了学位，现在我的生命中最好的工作。“