2. What is HR?
What do HR Professionals do?
How cool or hectic is the life of a HR Professional?
How Rewarding is the Profession?
How is the Profession Evolving?
3. What do HR Professionals do?
• Talent Acquisition - Match People with Purpose
• Talent Management
• Talent Development
• Organization Design and Development
• Organization Behaviour
4. Not just that!!
• Brand Ambassadors
• Business Partners
• Strategists
• Employee Brand Managers
• Advisor
• Welfare Manager
• Coaching
• Custodians of Organisation Culture
6. Key Competencies
• Communication, Persuasion And Interpersonal Skills
• Analytical, Critical and Strategic Thinking
• Relationship Building
• People Management And Leadership
• Personal Drive And Effectiveness
• Business Understanding
• Professional And Ethical Behaviour
7. Get Ready!
Degree
• Top colleges- CAT, XAT, SAT
Institute Program Duration Location
Xavier Labour Research Institute
(XLRI)
Postgraduate Programme in
Personnel Management & Industrial
Relations
2 Years Jamshedpur
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
(TISS)
M.A. in Human Resources
Management and Labour Relations
(HRM & LR)
2 Years Mumbai
Symbiosis Institute of Business
Management (SIBM) Master in Business Administration 2 Years Pune
Symbiosis Centre for Management
and Human Resource Development
(SCMHRD)
Post Graduate Diploma in HR 1 Year Pune
Management Development Institute
(MDI) Post-Graduate Programme in HR 2 Years Gurgaon
Institute of Management
Technology (IMT) PGDM HR 1 Year Ghaziabad
Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi Master of Human Resource and
Organisational Development
(MHROD)
2 Years New Delhi
Certification
• SHRM - Society of Human
Resources Management
8. • Read
• Harvard Business Reviews
• Network
• Research Industry Trends
• Apply for Trainings and Internships
• CONTINUE LEARNING
You Must Do!
9. • Delivering Happiness - Zappos By Tony Heish
• "The HR Answer Book: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human
Resources Professionals” By Shawn A. Smith and Rebecca A. Mazin
• "Good to Great (Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others
Don’t) By James C. Collins
• "Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid-Sized Companies” By
Diane Arthur
• "The Brave New World of eHR: Human Resources in the Digital Age” By
Hal Gueutal, Dianna L. Stone and Eduardo Salas
• The HR Value Proposition By Dave Ulrich
Books and References