Hello,
You are asking for assistance and you request urgent assistance.
I need to understand first and foremost in details about each year of your work experience as HR Consultant, i.e. I would like to know the details of the functional or conceptual areas on which you were advising your clients.
Were your clients drawn from SMEs MSMEs, Large Coproparates or MNCs>
How many clients did you manage to attract in those 2.5 years, especially since at that time you did NOT have Knowledge, Skills, Hands On work on various functional areas of HR?
The fact you enrolled thereafter into a regular two years full time MBA HR programme, suggests that your clients demanded "more" out of you professionally and you found the need to upgrade/update your self in HR!
However, did you not particiopate in Campus placement programme at your institute?
Your "entrepreneural" stint of 2.5 years is perhaps not being accepted as "work experience" because in that phase you did NOT possess wither the formal education in the area you were practicing as a Consultant and were perhaps also short of competencies required by the prospective employers!
You have also not explained your complete profile. I understand that you have been connected with the profession for arould seven years(2.5 YRS as "own start up" PLUS 2.5 YRS "into diverse roles and not in pure HRM PLUS 2.00 YRS for your full time MBA-HR) Nowhere in your mail explain what were these "diverse roles and not in pure HRM)
No wonder you are clueless on what to do but you are also hones and therefore help will be utilized by you efficiently!
As an advice:
1) Your chronology should be spelt out unambiguiously for easy comprehension by the potential employers.
2) Your work experience should be explained elaborately where necessary so that the potential employers are not tempted to perceive "fake experience".
3) Attach documentary evidences where possible.
4) Provide references that are credible, known and respected in the filed. These could be your teachers, clients or agencies that you may have successfully dealt with!
5) Do not forget to state what you are looking for in life-professional and personal!
If you develope such transparent, persuasive profile and approach, you will elicit many positive responses. Let your compensation expectations, however genuine, reasonable or legitimate, in your own mind, not make it easy for the recruiter to leave your resume untouched.
All this may appear rather HARSH, but move on in life, your first steps HAVE to be modest, honest, credible, transparent and inspiring confidence of people who have never met you in person. Therefore kindly take all this in a positive spirit. If you do not like what I am saying, simply ignore this post but please remember it is loaded with best of intentions for your own good!
Cheer up!
Regards
samvedan
Janaury 30, 2012-------------------