The love/hate view of HR departments and professionals is not a novel concept. We used to be part of the "Administration," some paper shufflers who color-coded a variety of filing folders and brought no real creativity or strategy to the process. Corporations, on the other hand, used one-liners such as "our people make the difference" as sound-bite slogans that had little to do with their internal realities. Nowadays, the HR department is the place where recruiting strategies are being discussed, where Mergers and Acquisitions initiatives are being strategized, where the corporate culture is being evaluated and finessed, and where mass reductions-in-force, penetrations of foreign markets, and employment legalities are being assessed.
My decision to join the HR field was not an accident or a Plan B. I still have in my possession the first Human Resources Management textbook I studied during my first semester at the university, while pursuing my business degree. It was the most underlined, noted, questioned, and essayed upon textbook from my undergraduate school years. Moreover, it was, in my case, the beginning of what was an increasingly inquisitive career in human resources, from an Assistant position to the later, always hands-on, management positions.
There is little routine in the human resources work. There is always new employment legislation that needs to be studied, there are always changes in industries that one has to learn and needs to adapt to, there are always jobs evolving and professionals evolving with them, needing appropriate professional counseling. In order to succeed in HR, one has to have a real interest in other people's careers and their development and to commit to the core culture of an organization and work on improving that continuously. It's not necessarily an intuitive kind of work, and people who claim that they are in HR because they "love people" are in the field, in my opinion, for the wrong reasons. It is the kind of work that requires one to perfect thought processes, to keep abreast of new events and developments in the workforce, and to challenge intellectual assumptions about human psyche.
I guess this is actually the very summation of "why HR, anyway" in my case: the thrill of everyday encounters in my line of work with reinventions of otherwise comfortable beliefs regarding human psyche in the work context. Questions such as why this reaction to this announcement, why apathy when there is so much potential, why such reticence to team spirit or individual contribution, why such enthusiasm in spite of many obstacles during this project, etc., make every single day of my work life simply fulfilling, and those, in my opinion, are sublimely valid reasons for me to love what I do and to appreciate the HR work for its worth.
Andreea Boier-Jennings: abj_career@Yahoo.com
he choose his career by going to school
The best way to choose a career is to choose something you like to do. You can also choose a career based on how much money you will like to make.
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I choose this career because i can enhance my strength and knowledge in this field . Also , i seen a tremendous growth in this field which made me to choose my career
I choose this career because i can enhance my strength and knowledge in this field . Also , i seen a tremendous growth in this field which made me to choose my career
People choose their careers for different reasons. Some choose their career for money while others have a passion for what they are doing.
Please don't go to UTI. I went to UTI and am now making 11/hr. Choose ANYTHING else besides a career in the automotive industry at this time!
Mark McGwire hit 583 career hr's.
Why did you choose a cabin crew career? This question needs to be edited as it makes no sense.
2-4 weeks
As of April 6 2011 she has hit 55 HR in her career at Georgia.
People choose their career because it is what drives them to reach their goal. It could be their passion and motivation that drives them to choose a career and their own selves to determine success.