HR work isnt easy.
For any young person who thinks HR work mainly involves booking fun events and being the cheerful "people person" in the office, you would be wise to rethink if this is the right career move for you.
Here are my 5 scary truths about HR:
1) You will see the best in people and you'll feel grateful for the times you get to work with the best humans in your career.
You will also see the worst in people (but no one will really know what the worst looks like because it's hidden by confidentiality). Don't let the behaviours of the worst people scar your views of the great ones.
2) The work you do will be mostly uplifting because you can help change someone's career, develop them to become greater than when they arrived, and be the change catalyst for great things at work.
You will also go home on some days that will make you wonder how you can get up and go to work again tomorrow. Some days, the "brutal" work that lives in the realm of HR can be hard to swallow. Find your destress motivator and keep it handy for those dark days.
3) Working in HR, you'll learn quickly to become solutions oriented. Fixing problems becomes the number one skill at the top of your resume.
But that often comes with the expectation that HR becomes the complaints department. You must form strong partnerships with your leadership team - you're not the service station and your job isn't cleaning up the mess of others. You're a business partner like everyone else - your contributions matter.
4) Working in HR, you've got to be objective. Making difficult decisions and having sound judgment is something you've got to be GREAT at if you want to succeed in HR.
That means you can't take things personally when people don't agree with your decisions. Not everyone will see things the way you do but in the end, you'll have to make the best decision and move forward. There will be many days that you'll go home feeling depleted and alone.
5) Every organization has a way of doing things and they will also partner with HR in vastly different ways. Choose the company you work for and the leadership that comes with it wisely.
Depending on the environment you choose for yourself, HR can provide you with extremely rewarding work. Or it won't.
For those of you who want to get into HR, I would highly recommend you talk to those who are in the field and can share with you what reality might look like on the job compared to what you might read in text books.
The unvarnished truth will either scare you away, or it will be your calling.
And for those of you who are really really good at it, I can bet it wasn't an easy road to get here.
Because HR work isn't easy.
7For any young person who thinks HR work mainly involves booking fun events and being the cheerful "people person" in the office, you would be wise to rethink if this is the right career move for you.
Here are my 5 scary truths about HR:
1) You will see the best in people and you'll feel grateful for the times you get to work with the best humans in your career.
You will also see the worst in people (but no one will really know what the worst looks like because it's hidden by confidentiality). Don't let the behaviours of the worst people scar your views of the great ones.
2) The work you do will be mostly uplifting because you can help change someone's career, develop them to become greater than when they arrived, and be the change catalyst for great things at work.
You will also go home on some days that will make you wonder how you can get up and go to work again tomorrow. Some days, the "brutal" work that lives in the realm of HR can be hard to swallow. Find your destress motivator and keep it handy for those dark days.
3) Working in HR, you'll learn quickly to become solutions oriented. Fixing problems becomes the number one skill at the top of your resume.
But that often comes with the expectation that HR becomes the complaints department. You must form strong partnerships with your leadership team - you're not the service station and your job isn't cleaning up the mess of others. You're a business partner like everyone else - your contributions matter.
4) Working in HR, you've got to be objective. Making difficult decisions and having sound judgment is something you've got to be GREAT at if you want to succeed in HR.
That means you can't take things personally when people don't agree with your decisions. Not everyone will see things the way you do but in the end, you'll have to make the best decision and move forward. There will be many days that you'll go home feeling depleted and alone.
5) Every organization has a way of doing things and they will also partner with HR in vastly different ways. Choose the company you work for and the leadership that comes with it wisely.
Depending on the environment you choose for yourself, HR can provide you with extremely rewarding work. Or it won't.
For those of you who want to get into HR, I would highly recommend you talk to those who are in the field and can share with you what reality might look like on the job compared to what you might read in text books.
The unvarnished truth will either scare you away, or it will be your calling.
And for those of you who are really really good at it, I can bet it wasn't an easy road to get here.
Because HR work isn't easy.
Dear Mr Ashok Pai,
On reading your post, one gets a feeling that these are your views. However, these are not. On checking Google, I found one Christine Song has written this post on her LinkedIn wall. The link is as below:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/songc...member_desktop
Well, gentleman. Let me not get into the contents of the post whether HR's work is easy or not. However, the content creator's originality must be respected. Nothing wrong in posting content from a book, web resources, newspaper report etc., but propriety demands proper disclosure of the source of the information. Otherwise, passing someone else's content as one's own is nothing but plagiarism.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
On reading your post, one gets a feeling that these are your views. However, these are not. On checking Google, I found one Christine Song has written this post on her LinkedIn wall. The link is as below:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/songc...member_desktop
Well, gentleman. Let me not get into the contents of the post whether HR's work is easy or not. However, the content creator's originality must be respected. Nothing wrong in posting content from a book, web resources, newspaper report etc., but propriety demands proper disclosure of the source of the information. Otherwise, passing someone else's content as one's own is nothing but plagiarism.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
This reminds of a book I read about Swami Vedanta Desikar, a Vaishnava saint, that lived near Kancheepuram around 13th century. I forgot the name of the author that wrote the book.
In that book he had said that Vedanta Desikar had written "Please do not copy what I have said and claim it as your own, as you will bear responsibility for the mistakes that I may have made."
From United Kingdom
In that book he had said that Vedanta Desikar had written "Please do not copy what I have said and claim it as your own, as you will bear responsibility for the mistakes that I may have made."
From United Kingdom
so can we mention in the heading as its forwarded message or copied message ? Because we can share good messages even though its not ours. so shall we ? Dinesh Divekar& Simhan.,,
From India, Madurai
From India, Madurai
Dear Pon Murugapandian,
Keep the heading and text of the copied message as it is. However, please mention the source of the information by quoting the web link. We need to take steps to avoid violation of someone's intellectual property rights.
By the way, other than news, court judgement etc., why one should copy material and paste it to some other forum?
What can be achieved by proving how one is good at being a copycat? Creativity is fostered when one values originality and not by being a copycat.
A few original sentences are better than the copied text of thousands of lines.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
Keep the heading and text of the copied message as it is. However, please mention the source of the information by quoting the web link. We need to take steps to avoid violation of someone's intellectual property rights.
By the way, other than news, court judgement etc., why one should copy material and paste it to some other forum?
What can be achieved by proving how one is good at being a copycat? Creativity is fostered when one values originality and not by being a copycat.
A few original sentences are better than the copied text of thousands of lines.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
From India, Bangalore
HR: Many companies it is to take care of Manpower movement, payment and related legal aspects of EPFO rules and other labor rules as per the state laws.
Generally the owners run the company so they know what kind of peoples are required and they directly recruit either by advertisement or through known sources. Then the agreement is passed on to the HR person to keep record and do the manpower work in the company.
Many big companies they have an HR department as they owners technically qualified wish to pay more attention to their business, entrust the preliminary work of recruitment work. They ask for the drafting an advertisement, and after giving correction approve it for publication. Some take the help of outside Recruitment agencies to suggest candidates who will be interviewed first by the Recruitment company and then sent to the Company for further interview.
Here HR together with Technical peoples sit and interview them. It depends upon either HR takes active part to ask questions or just observe what the Owners ask and take note of if.
It is a complex job in as much as an easy job. Most important is the cordial relationship.
Keeping records and keeping data of people when needed by the company is more important.
In our contracting line, at times the management demand the total work force in the company, contract labor and sub-contractors working and no of manpower. We submit the details where and which projects they are now.
Management then discuss with the Team Head of the Projects if they need anyone need to be shifted. Accordingly letter is sent to ask them to report directly to an other project or come to the Head Office and then they will tell where they are going to be sent.
These are monitored by the HR, so that to account the pay based on the project.
The job is not just package with a label it is a supermarket and product will be shifted from one place to another as per demand and convenience.
New project comes then HRs roll is very important to interact for recruitment of new additional manpower.
From Saudi Arabia
Generally the owners run the company so they know what kind of peoples are required and they directly recruit either by advertisement or through known sources. Then the agreement is passed on to the HR person to keep record and do the manpower work in the company.
Many big companies they have an HR department as they owners technically qualified wish to pay more attention to their business, entrust the preliminary work of recruitment work. They ask for the drafting an advertisement, and after giving correction approve it for publication. Some take the help of outside Recruitment agencies to suggest candidates who will be interviewed first by the Recruitment company and then sent to the Company for further interview.
Here HR together with Technical peoples sit and interview them. It depends upon either HR takes active part to ask questions or just observe what the Owners ask and take note of if.
It is a complex job in as much as an easy job. Most important is the cordial relationship.
Keeping records and keeping data of people when needed by the company is more important.
In our contracting line, at times the management demand the total work force in the company, contract labor and sub-contractors working and no of manpower. We submit the details where and which projects they are now.
Management then discuss with the Team Head of the Projects if they need anyone need to be shifted. Accordingly letter is sent to ask them to report directly to an other project or come to the Head Office and then they will tell where they are going to be sent.
These are monitored by the HR, so that to account the pay based on the project.
The job is not just package with a label it is a supermarket and product will be shifted from one place to another as per demand and convenience.
New project comes then HRs roll is very important to interact for recruitment of new additional manpower.
From Saudi Arabia
HR has its challenges and pitfalls. It depends on how you take it as an HR professional. You can take a low profile and be content with a generalist role, pushing paper from one end to the other. Or be the proactive change agent viewing your role as a business partner endeavouring to bring out potential of the people. It depends on how much one takes it seriously. One thing be sure, never will there be a dull moment.
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
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