Hi Richa,
I am sorry for the delayed response.
If you are at the stage where you must choose your HR Project Topic, my advise to you (or anyone) would be to select the topic such that its rare and (atleast) not covered in the previous year in your Institute. Subjects like Performance Appraisal, Recruitments, Training, are very common. Try to think out of the box. The topics in HR are all the same, but what and how you choose to present it in the form of Project will determine your level of innovation. If the subject is innovative, you score half the marks.
One other thing that shall help you far is that you choose a topic that's taken from the real world, instead of the theoritical topic.
I may help you by listing a few topics. But the list is not exhaustive. You must do your own research on the topics. The ones that interest you. A few are listed below:
1. A study on retentional practices in order to control severe attrition rate in small software companies?
2. Role of HRM Department in ERP (SAP/People soft)
3. Human Resource Department as a strategic asset in corporate planning and development.
Please try to search for more topics. read books. You will get ideas.
I hope this helps!
All the Best.
From India, Hyderabad
1I am sorry for the delayed response.
If you are at the stage where you must choose your HR Project Topic, my advise to you (or anyone) would be to select the topic such that its rare and (atleast) not covered in the previous year in your Institute. Subjects like Performance Appraisal, Recruitments, Training, are very common. Try to think out of the box. The topics in HR are all the same, but what and how you choose to present it in the form of Project will determine your level of innovation. If the subject is innovative, you score half the marks.
One other thing that shall help you far is that you choose a topic that's taken from the real world, instead of the theoritical topic.
I may help you by listing a few topics. But the list is not exhaustive. You must do your own research on the topics. The ones that interest you. A few are listed below:
1. A study on retentional practices in order to control severe attrition rate in small software companies?
2. Role of HRM Department in ERP (SAP/People soft)
3. Human Resource Department as a strategic asset in corporate planning and development.
Please try to search for more topics. read books. You will get ideas.
I hope this helps!
All the Best.
From India, Hyderabad
Dear All, Can we as a HR community do something for such candidates ? Expecting your inputs, Amit
From India, Bangalore
From India, Bangalore
I can understand the frustration and the loss of patience you must have had while accepting the offer. We need to accept the hard fact that market hardly offers HR vacancies. Leave aside the 'recession', HR vacancies are always less. Then, there are no less no. of people doing HR specialization. Out of which, some grab the posts via their good networking skills, or their references. Only a few of us get placed in the potential of HR via past service/ academeic record. Those left, would opt for working with HR Consultancies. However big these consultancies are, the salaries offered are too less or the targets are so high, that you end up taking stress. Its similar to doing a Marketing job.
The options are not limited. We must broaden our horizons. There are desk jobs to do Relationship Markrting. Then Public Relations. Everybody needs money. I would say it will be a waste of time and (parents) money to sit idle. If there is dearth of jobs in the market, opt for any job you get. Its a wise decision. Then, direct your career in the right way. Think what all options are now available to you. You always start at a lower Grade. Perform so well so that you walk the ladder to get the highest Grade. I am sure you will find your way.
As for you, once you have an experience of Marketing in the Resume, it will be very difficult to build your career in HR now. But don't give up hopes. Keep trying. You will definitely find one such job that will satisfy you. But that takes time. So the key is to keep patience :)
From India, Hyderabad
The options are not limited. We must broaden our horizons. There are desk jobs to do Relationship Markrting. Then Public Relations. Everybody needs money. I would say it will be a waste of time and (parents) money to sit idle. If there is dearth of jobs in the market, opt for any job you get. Its a wise decision. Then, direct your career in the right way. Think what all options are now available to you. You always start at a lower Grade. Perform so well so that you walk the ladder to get the highest Grade. I am sure you will find your way.
As for you, once you have an experience of Marketing in the Resume, it will be very difficult to build your career in HR now. But don't give up hopes. Keep trying. You will definitely find one such job that will satisfy you. But that takes time. So the key is to keep patience :)
From India, Hyderabad
I would also like to address that why are we all stressing on becoming an HR Generalist. In an organization, there are so many roles of an HR. In one HR Department, there could be specialists doing T&D, some doing only Recruitments, or some doing other HR activities. To get placed in a good organisation, taking any one specialised role is worth it. While if you working for a small organization (new setup), only then you may have a chance to work as an HR Generalist. We can't ignore the pool of talent and experience that we have. Look out for the options available to you, and choose the Best.
From India, Hyderabad
From India, Hyderabad
Mrs Umang, It would be gr8 if u could help me also...coz i dont want to end up wasting my time as well as the company’s money! Regards, Jamila Patel.
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
Hi Amit, As u asked..."CAN WE DO SMTHG"... well, we can...but what im not very clear about it
From India, Delhi
From India, Delhi
Hi Amit,
I have repeatedly seen this one question you have been asking, well as HR community what you can expect realistically ?
Some tips which may go to help people to some extent is:
1 - join some HR network and make your presence felt,either through public relations or organising events,being a helping hand,that way some seniors may notice your multitasking talent,which is important for a HR generalist profile
2 - While recruiting try to build up good relation with client company HR and put across a word that looking forward to join as HR Generalist, well,HR positions are always scarce because with 100 people you wish to have 1 HR person,so you can understand the situation.
3 - Join as admin/operations exec,that profile will help switching to HR internally easily.
Thats all coming to my mind as of now,may be start a new thread with just this question.
Thanks
Geeta
From Korea, Seoul
I have repeatedly seen this one question you have been asking, well as HR community what you can expect realistically ?
Some tips which may go to help people to some extent is:
1 - join some HR network and make your presence felt,either through public relations or organising events,being a helping hand,that way some seniors may notice your multitasking talent,which is important for a HR generalist profile
2 - While recruiting try to build up good relation with client company HR and put across a word that looking forward to join as HR Generalist, well,HR positions are always scarce because with 100 people you wish to have 1 HR person,so you can understand the situation.
3 - Join as admin/operations exec,that profile will help switching to HR internally easily.
Thats all coming to my mind as of now,may be start a new thread with just this question.
Thanks
Geeta
From Korea, Seoul
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