Hello Shiva,
I have been seeing sooo many responses to guide you....not sure if you really need yet one more:-).
But frankly, I think you have a REAL problem.....am not kidding nor am I pulling your leg. In fact, the way I look @ it, TWO problems- it could be either or both, in your case.
First & foremost, pl. ruminate & analyse as to WHY YOU TOOK HR line as a career. If you realise it's the wrong area to be in FOR YOU, based on your temperment, attitude--qualifications being the last--don't think you are the only one in this world. There are many who get into something and then later realise they made a WRONG CHOICE--based on WRONG PREMISES on their capabilities vis-à-vis the needs of the field.......and this includes many so-called experienced ones in various fields.
I have met so many candidates who prepared to get into the Software development line….…just b’cos either they noticed or friends told them the salaries are very good, lots of foreign trips without spending a penny from their pockets, etc. And I mean guys who just did Diplomas, B.Com/BA and even some ITI guys.
What they failed to see WHEN THEY WERE MAKING THE CHOICE was that IT jobs NEED A HIGH LEVEL of Analytical mindset, which doesn’t figure anywhere in their qualifications. And then by hook-or-crook, they get into the IT field [this is where corruption in the IT industry entered, way back during the Y2K days] and after the honeymoon period, they get disillusioned and blame everyone & everything—EXCEPT THEMSELVES for a choice gone sour.
In a single line, career choice is MORE to do with COMPATIBILITY, like a marriage, than just with YOUR strengths and/or weaknesses.
I can only empathise with the likes of you, Shalu, Savithri, Rashmi, et al.
So Ms. Saher, Dada and others who have a similar opinion—that this is a stupid question……pl. pass my comments if you still think so.
Now coming to the Problem area no. 2.
Based on your comments to other member comments, I can see very clearly that YOUR LEARNING PROCESS HAS JUST STOPPED…though that’s surprising, since you have just begun your career. Boring, lack-of-interest and such comments are a RESULT [NOT the cause] of the stoppage of the learning process. Like someone said—Learning begins @ birth & ends with death. Or at least, that’s how nature has made us to be.
And believe me Shiva, this can happen in the very beginning of one’s career or even after the guy builds-up a couple of decades experience.
In a way, I would say, you are lucky that it happened in the beginning, giving you the great opportunity to make a course-correction without much damage to the overall career graph. What if you faced this situation after 10 yrs of exp? First, you wouldn’t be able to speak so freely & openly of this problem—natural human ego hang-up being the reason [incidentally some of the ones who responded to this thread seem to give the impression of having this trait]. And when you don’t/can’t express it, the chances of feedback is restricted too…… and you just end-up continuing the same mistakes until you retire……I am not joking-I have seen quite a few such cases—and couldn’t help except pitying them.
And the ONLY WAY TO ensure your learning process doesn’t stop is to follow some of the suggestions Zalak, Asha, Simhan & Sundararajan mentioned.
But even before implementing their valuable suggestions, """FIRST & FOREMOST begin to DELINK your learning process & the actual implementation of what you learned""". Though it’s said—necessity is the mother of invention, in actual practice, "DON’T LEARN SINCE YOU NEED IT. LEARN JUST B’COS YOU GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN". I can tell you this much Shiva—"quite a few times, the chance to practice what you learn comes only later". If you are doing something, try to do it differently to better the result……not b’cos the boss asks you to but b’cos you want to test how YOU CAN BETTER YOURSELF. THE MORE YOU SET YOUR OWN targets, the better goal-oriented you can become [and another advantage in this way is you won’t have your boss breathing over your neck].
The HR nuances/tips what I am practicing/suggesting now were learnt by me way back in the early 1980s during my first job—mind you I am a technical guy by experience. At that time I always wondered what am I learning and why……but thankfully I didn’t allow that self-doubt to stop the learning process. And only in the past few years do I realize that hadn’t it been for that exp of handling hundreds of issues & people parallely during the first 4-6 yrs of my career that gave me the skill to look @ things from different perspectives, I don’t think I would fit into the HR line at all--@ best a mediocre guy and @ worst a misfit HR guy getting muck in the face on a daily-basis. I am mentioning this since I can only quote from MY experience.
And looking at the whole thing from the perspective of philosophy/karma or whatever you want to name it as, there’s nothing that happens without a reason. Just don't allow yourself to be in a situation whare you will regret later in life that you can't handle a particular situation JUST B'COS YOU DIDN'T LEARN WHEN YOU GOT A CHANCE earlier in life.
I hope I have conveyed what I wanted to, without any scope for misinterpretations/misunderstanding.
All the best.
Rgds.
TS