In the first few years of the enterprise human resource management personnel professional qualifications carried out in full swing, on the 2004, the number of human resource managers on the examination reached 20,000 people, the pass rate is also generally higher, an average of more than 50%, human resources division exam pass rate of about 40%, human resources administrators and assistant human resources manager pass rate of 60% to 70%.

With the human resources manager, assistant human resources manager, human resources manager of three levels of teaching materials have undergone major changes, the knowledge framework structure and the original difference is not great, but the overall difficulty has been a substantial increase in the examination questions have also been corresponding changes. Especially the human resource manager, its difficulty has a tendency to senior human resource manager closer, which invariably brings greater pressure on the candidates. With the gradual standardization and rigor of the examination system, the human resources manager's examination pass rate declined year by year, until now the pass rate of these three levels is only about 30%.