Hi, I am Deevyani. I have 2.5 years of experience in the banking industry, and now I have decided to switch my career to the field of HR, specifically in Employee Engagement or Training and Development. I am pursuing my MBA-HR from Symbiosis Distance Learning. Additionally, I have completed a one-month practical training in HR practices.
I am seeking suggestions from experienced professionals in this industry regarding my career development in this field, particularly in Training and Development and Employee Relations. Kindly assist me on how to enter these departments or kickstart my career.
From India, Delhi
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I am seeking suggestions from experienced professionals in this industry regarding my career development in this field, particularly in Training and Development and Employee Relations. Kindly assist me on how to enter these departments or kickstart my career.
From India, Delhi
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Dear Deevyani,
In my opinion, you should pursue a career in the service area of HR because your previous experience is also in the service industry. This would be a good starting point for you if you come across a promising opportunity in this field. Particularly for Training & Development (T&D), you should have a solid grasp of the subject matter and a good understanding of the training and development processes.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Dev
From India, Ludhiana
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36In my opinion, you should pursue a career in the service area of HR because your previous experience is also in the service industry. This would be a good starting point for you if you come across a promising opportunity in this field. Particularly for Training & Development (T&D), you should have a solid grasp of the subject matter and a good understanding of the training and development processes.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Dev
From India, Ludhiana
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Have faith in yourself and go with your instinct. Choose the field which you enjoy
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Hi Deevyani,
As you have mentioned that you have only 2.5 years of experience in the banking industry and now want to shift to the HR profession, then it is the right time as you are undergoing the HR course as well.
I would suggest going with it as your decision is right.
In-between, I would like to suggest something. Since HR is a very vast area, I would like you to go for a generalist role first, start with recruitment, induction, PMS, T & D, etc., and then you can decide your best area of interest and shift into it.
For the HR profession, there are a lot of things to handle, and experience does matter in this profession because it cannot always be 2 + 2 = 4, but sometimes it may be 3 and 5 also. You need to know the employee pulse for all these things, and experience is the best teacher for it.
Coming to training & development and employee engagement, you need to have a lot of experience first to jump into it. These two are very eye-catching fields in HR, and as a fresher, everyone wants to be in these fields only, but these two are the most challenging fields. I am not saying that it's difficult, but for these two, you need to really work very hard.
There is one way that I have suggested to you above, and there is another way, and that is, if you can get a breakthrough in a T & D or EE organization/consultancies that provide their services to the corporate. But remember, here also in the beginning, you will not get the opportunity to meet people directly, train them. Here you need to first learn with them by attending the sessions along with the trainer, need to do business developments, content writing, etc., and of course, with all these, one day you will be at your heights.
I wish you all the best for your career. Trust yourself and work hard, and you will meet your goal.
From India, Delhi
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As you have mentioned that you have only 2.5 years of experience in the banking industry and now want to shift to the HR profession, then it is the right time as you are undergoing the HR course as well.
I would suggest going with it as your decision is right.
In-between, I would like to suggest something. Since HR is a very vast area, I would like you to go for a generalist role first, start with recruitment, induction, PMS, T & D, etc., and then you can decide your best area of interest and shift into it.
For the HR profession, there are a lot of things to handle, and experience does matter in this profession because it cannot always be 2 + 2 = 4, but sometimes it may be 3 and 5 also. You need to know the employee pulse for all these things, and experience is the best teacher for it.
Coming to training & development and employee engagement, you need to have a lot of experience first to jump into it. These two are very eye-catching fields in HR, and as a fresher, everyone wants to be in these fields only, but these two are the most challenging fields. I am not saying that it's difficult, but for these two, you need to really work very hard.
There is one way that I have suggested to you above, and there is another way, and that is, if you can get a breakthrough in a T & D or EE organization/consultancies that provide their services to the corporate. But remember, here also in the beginning, you will not get the opportunity to meet people directly, train them. Here you need to first learn with them by attending the sessions along with the trainer, need to do business developments, content writing, etc., and of course, with all these, one day you will be at your heights.
I wish you all the best for your career. Trust yourself and work hard, and you will meet your goal.
From India, Delhi
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Deevyani,
Compliment to you for your decision to switch your career from Banking to the field of HR, and above that to get into the field of Employee Engagement or Training and Development.
Employee engagement is a priority for many HR leaders these days, so you are some what justified in making this choice.
Training and Development is an ever green field so your choice to get in there too is justified.
You say you are pursuing an MBA-HR and that it is from Symbiosis Distance learning.
Entry into a field justifies earning an appropriate degree, but kindly note, that acquiring a degree is just the first step, but it's only on the ground that you actual learning starts. That you have also undertaken 1 month practical training in HR practices, wonder what the curriculum was like and what did you actually learn here.
Coming to your need for suggestions about your career development in this field and that too specially - in Training & Development and Employee Relations.
Before I begin or go any further I'd like you to understand that this is purely my thoughts which I share with you and the community, and it is not to either make you or anyone feel over-awed or discouraged by imagining - "Oh! is there so much."
Take this analogy - No swimmer in the world will venture into a pool, lake, river, or the ocean without assessing it's depth, or the current in the case of a river or the ocean etc. He/she does this because he/she is aware of the risks being taken and it also gives an opportunity take necessary training/practice, pre-cautions etc., before taking the plunge.
This is just another attempt on the same lines.
Take a reality check on yourself on the following aspects
- How would you rate yourself as a communicator - oral and written
- How good are your reading habits, if yes, general novel reading, fiction reading will help your vocabulary, creativity, thinking, etc., where as if you were to look at going
ahead in your career do you read business books.
- What is your temperament like - are you cool calm and composed, are you affable/friendly, are you bossy, are you co-operative, are you flexible, are you accommodative,
are you a good listener, etc..
Let's take Training & Development - first then. Do you have the in-puts needed for becoming a Trainer, or do you think that you will be good at developing content for a training. Have you done a course on Training & Development (ISTD - Indian society of Training and Development - which I believe has it's HQ in Delhi, conducts a one-year diploma course on this subject), else there are some Training companies which organize a Trainer the Trainers Programme, which can give you some in-puts on how to get into and start training. In fact, most of the well known Trainers all over the world are known to be great Facilitators, which mean they will throw up and issue or make a statement and will not give you the answer, if fact, they will ask leading questions or provide you with clues that leads to the solution rather than doling it out freely.
This is done, because that the real way a skill is passed on. It's different from the one-way communication we know in schools and colleges.
It's here that your life and work experience, your reading, the knowledge of the industry that you serve that will all go to make a difference, and you can deliver a memorable programme, leaving behind an indelible impression on the participant's which in turn will catapult you to be called a "Super Trainer."
There are a number of such high quality trainers both in our country and abroad too. It'll be worth following them to keep adding value to you career as a Trainer. You might do the same training programme to may be two sets of people in two different locations, while thee will not be any major change either in the structure or the content but the one thing that will count is the delivery suiting to that particular audience - which will depend on their background, culture, etc. So then it's not a bad deal to understand the geography, history and be quite up-to-date on the current happenings in as many areas as possible that can help you carryout a successful programme.
I guess this is enough fodder for you to chew and mull in this area of specialization, and I move over to the other area - Employee Engagement. This is a very interesting and a vast area, which can keep you engaged till your last breath on this planet, which again can leave you with a feeling that you could done something more than what you have.
Here is a mini summary from his book Employee Engagement 2.0, "How to motivate your high performance team," a real world guide for busy manager from New York Times Best Selling author by Kevin Kruse, which I could pick up a couple of days ago from the internet.
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. When employees care — when they are engaged — they use discretionary effort.
Companies with engaged workers have 6% higher net profit margins (Towers Perrin research) and five times higher shareholder returns (Kenexa research).
The ROI of engagement comes from what I call the Engagement-Profit Chain:
Engaged Employees lead to…higher service, quality, and productivity, which leads to…
higher customer satisfaction, which leads to…
increased sales (from more repeat business and referrals), which leads to…
higher levels of profit, which leads to…
higher shareholder returns (i.e., stock price)
Based on my own experience as a serial entrepreneur leading “best place to work” teams, and on Kenexa’s research on over 10 million workers in 150 countries, there are three keys to driving engagement.
1) Growth and Development. Do your team members feel like they are learning new things and advancing their career?
2) Recognition & Appreciation. Do your team members feel appreciated and that their ideas count?
3) Trust & Confidence. Do your team members trust the leadership and have confidence in the organization’s future?
To remind myself of these three keys, I often repeat the mantra:
This in a nut shell gives you the direction as to what you can do to make a contribution that can make an impact in the organization that you wish to associate yourself with.
This is just a scratch on the surface, you will find tons of material. Just have to query Employee Engagement on Google and in microseconds it will display as many as About 38,500,000 results (0.37 seconds).
The suggestion is keep following the best practices that people share and help their organizations succeed, in that lies their success to for the role they play in Employee Engagement.
I've tried my best for now investing a good bit of my valuable early morning thoughts in putting this together. Go through and do let us know how you are faring when you move on. For now my whole hearted wishes to you for along and great career in whichever the field you might choose to get into, now and later transit into.
From India, Hyderabad
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Compliment to you for your decision to switch your career from Banking to the field of HR, and above that to get into the field of Employee Engagement or Training and Development.
Employee engagement is a priority for many HR leaders these days, so you are some what justified in making this choice.
Training and Development is an ever green field so your choice to get in there too is justified.
You say you are pursuing an MBA-HR and that it is from Symbiosis Distance learning.
Entry into a field justifies earning an appropriate degree, but kindly note, that acquiring a degree is just the first step, but it's only on the ground that you actual learning starts. That you have also undertaken 1 month practical training in HR practices, wonder what the curriculum was like and what did you actually learn here.
Coming to your need for suggestions about your career development in this field and that too specially - in Training & Development and Employee Relations.
Before I begin or go any further I'd like you to understand that this is purely my thoughts which I share with you and the community, and it is not to either make you or anyone feel over-awed or discouraged by imagining - "Oh! is there so much."
Take this analogy - No swimmer in the world will venture into a pool, lake, river, or the ocean without assessing it's depth, or the current in the case of a river or the ocean etc. He/she does this because he/she is aware of the risks being taken and it also gives an opportunity take necessary training/practice, pre-cautions etc., before taking the plunge.
This is just another attempt on the same lines.
Take a reality check on yourself on the following aspects
- How would you rate yourself as a communicator - oral and written
- How good are your reading habits, if yes, general novel reading, fiction reading will help your vocabulary, creativity, thinking, etc., where as if you were to look at going
ahead in your career do you read business books.
- What is your temperament like - are you cool calm and composed, are you affable/friendly, are you bossy, are you co-operative, are you flexible, are you accommodative,
are you a good listener, etc..
Let's take Training & Development - first then. Do you have the in-puts needed for becoming a Trainer, or do you think that you will be good at developing content for a training. Have you done a course on Training & Development (ISTD - Indian society of Training and Development - which I believe has it's HQ in Delhi, conducts a one-year diploma course on this subject), else there are some Training companies which organize a Trainer the Trainers Programme, which can give you some in-puts on how to get into and start training. In fact, most of the well known Trainers all over the world are known to be great Facilitators, which mean they will throw up and issue or make a statement and will not give you the answer, if fact, they will ask leading questions or provide you with clues that leads to the solution rather than doling it out freely.
This is done, because that the real way a skill is passed on. It's different from the one-way communication we know in schools and colleges.
It's here that your life and work experience, your reading, the knowledge of the industry that you serve that will all go to make a difference, and you can deliver a memorable programme, leaving behind an indelible impression on the participant's which in turn will catapult you to be called a "Super Trainer."
There are a number of such high quality trainers both in our country and abroad too. It'll be worth following them to keep adding value to you career as a Trainer. You might do the same training programme to may be two sets of people in two different locations, while thee will not be any major change either in the structure or the content but the one thing that will count is the delivery suiting to that particular audience - which will depend on their background, culture, etc. So then it's not a bad deal to understand the geography, history and be quite up-to-date on the current happenings in as many areas as possible that can help you carryout a successful programme.
I guess this is enough fodder for you to chew and mull in this area of specialization, and I move over to the other area - Employee Engagement. This is a very interesting and a vast area, which can keep you engaged till your last breath on this planet, which again can leave you with a feeling that you could done something more than what you have.
Here is a mini summary from his book Employee Engagement 2.0, "How to motivate your high performance team," a real world guide for busy manager from New York Times Best Selling author by Kevin Kruse, which I could pick up a couple of days ago from the internet.
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. When employees care — when they are engaged — they use discretionary effort.
Companies with engaged workers have 6% higher net profit margins (Towers Perrin research) and five times higher shareholder returns (Kenexa research).
The ROI of engagement comes from what I call the Engagement-Profit Chain:
Engaged Employees lead to…higher service, quality, and productivity, which leads to…
higher customer satisfaction, which leads to…
increased sales (from more repeat business and referrals), which leads to…
higher levels of profit, which leads to…
higher shareholder returns (i.e., stock price)
Based on my own experience as a serial entrepreneur leading “best place to work” teams, and on Kenexa’s research on over 10 million workers in 150 countries, there are three keys to driving engagement.
1) Growth and Development. Do your team members feel like they are learning new things and advancing their career?
2) Recognition & Appreciation. Do your team members feel appreciated and that their ideas count?
3) Trust & Confidence. Do your team members trust the leadership and have confidence in the organization’s future?
To remind myself of these three keys, I often repeat the mantra:
This in a nut shell gives you the direction as to what you can do to make a contribution that can make an impact in the organization that you wish to associate yourself with.
This is just a scratch on the surface, you will find tons of material. Just have to query Employee Engagement on Google and in microseconds it will display as many as About 38,500,000 results (0.37 seconds).
The suggestion is keep following the best practices that people share and help their organizations succeed, in that lies their success to for the role they play in Employee Engagement.
I've tried my best for now investing a good bit of my valuable early morning thoughts in putting this together. Go through and do let us know how you are faring when you move on. For now my whole hearted wishes to you for along and great career in whichever the field you might choose to get into, now and later transit into.
From India, Hyderabad
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Dear Devyani,
The banking sector needs to train employees in a wide variety of subjects, which include induction, General Banking, Credit appraisal, credit management, Recovery Management, Branch Management, Agricultural Finance, Managerial Excellence, Motivation, and domestic inquiries, etc. I have listed them to give you an idea about the scope of training and development in the banking sector. Usually, banks have their training institutes to train their personnel. Instead of resigning from the present job, you can pursue an internal option to switch to a faculty position within your bank itself. After gaining some experience, you can pursue external opportunities as well. National Institutes like NIBM or IIB also require banking-related faculty for their institutes. In the meantime, explore the possibility of enrolling yourself for ISTD to give leverage in training.
All the best.
B. Saikumar
From India, Mumbai
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The banking sector needs to train employees in a wide variety of subjects, which include induction, General Banking, Credit appraisal, credit management, Recovery Management, Branch Management, Agricultural Finance, Managerial Excellence, Motivation, and domestic inquiries, etc. I have listed them to give you an idea about the scope of training and development in the banking sector. Usually, banks have their training institutes to train their personnel. Instead of resigning from the present job, you can pursue an internal option to switch to a faculty position within your bank itself. After gaining some experience, you can pursue external opportunities as well. National Institutes like NIBM or IIB also require banking-related faculty for their institutes. In the meantime, explore the possibility of enrolling yourself for ISTD to give leverage in training.
All the best.
B. Saikumar
From India, Mumbai
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Dear Devyani,
My suggestion is: If you are in a public sector bank (government bank), then you should not leave the present job. However, if you are in a private sector bank, then you can switch over to the corporate sector in the field of HR.
From India, Mumbai
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My suggestion is: If you are in a public sector bank (government bank), then you should not leave the present job. However, if you are in a private sector bank, then you can switch over to the corporate sector in the field of HR.
From India, Mumbai
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Hi, I am Ashish Dass, working in the banking industry. I have 2 plus years of experience in the same industry. My vision for the future is to pursue the CFA or FRM certifications. I request your advice since I am planning to transition from banking to consulting. How will my banking experience help me survive in the consulting industry? Additionally, how can I make the move from banking? What job opportunities are available for bankers in consulting, specifically for an analyst profile? Kindly suggest.
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From India, Suri
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