Higher Technical Professional Course

Administrative Human Resource Management

Higher School of Technology and Management

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Coordinator

Pedro Miguel Afonso Gaspar
​coord.ip.garh@ipmaia.pt
 

Relevant Areas

Qualification in the relevant area(s) for this course (Article 40-F of Decree-Law n.º 65/2018), must be demonstrated with the approval in the following subject, attested in the certificate of secondary education or legally equivalent qualification:

  • Economics or
  • Mathematics or
  • Portuguese

DGES Registry

Course registered at the General Directorate of Higher Education with the number  R/c 375/2015

Area of Education and Training 

345 - Management and Administration 

Publication in the Official Gazette

Notice  nº 10220/2017 - 2nd series, n.º 171, of 5 September.

Study Program Evaluation 

 
This Higher Technical Professional Course is a vocational training course taught as part of polytechnic higher education and lasts 4 semesters, corresponding to 120 ECTS. The course is organised into general and scientific training, technical training and on-the-job training (internship), and each student is awarded with a Higher Technical Professional Diploma at level 5 of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning.

Professional profile

The Higher Technical Professional Course in Administrative Human Resource Management aims to train professionals who are able to carry out the primary administrative duties demanded upstream and downstream of human resources management, provide technical support for the negotiation and hiring processes, and ensure the proper management of work teams and interpersonal relationships.

Professional opportunities 

Carrying out duties including drawing up recruitment, selection, welcoming and integration processes; auditing, analysing and assessing work tasks; drawing up performance assessment processes and vocational training processes; processing salaries/ remuneration/bonuses; supporting the corporate hierarchy with integrated human resource management; managing the entire registration process; gathering and processing qualitative and quantitative data on occupational health, safety and hygiene; supporting career management.

Entry requirements (one of the following)

  • Having completed a secondary education course qualification or a legally equivalent qualification. 
  • Having passed the special exams for assessing capacity to attend higher education for people over 23 (Decree-Law no. 64/2006 of 21 March). 
  • Holding a technological diploma de especialização , diploma profissional técnico superior ou qualificação de nível superior.

Pursuit of further studies - Bachelor's degrees

 In case of pursuit of further studies, the credits acquired in the scope of the short-cycles can be transferred as follows:

The application by holders of Higher Technical Professional Diplomas to attend IPMAIA Bachelor’s degrees is subject to the conditions established by the institution body that is competent to do so in accordance with the law and the statutes. Depending on the Higher Technical Professional Course and Bachelor’s degree, these conditions may establish the need to pass a specific IPMAIA admission exam, or allow the exemption to perform such an exam.
Observation:
a) Students who intend to apply for an IPMAIA Bachelor’s degree course and must sit the specific admission exam will receive suitable preparation during the teaching of the Higher Technical Professional Course.