Dear Neha,
Other seniors have given their valuable suggestions. Now let me analyse your post in my own way.
Following positive aspects about you can be derived from your post: -
a) You are highly career oriented. You wanted to bring positive change in your life in general and in your career in particular. For this, you have enhanced your education.
b) Cabin crew's job is not sedentary. It involves physical activities. In spite of this, you completed your graduation and further MBA. This shows that you are a hard working person. Kudos to you!
c) To pursue your career in HR, you are ready to negotiate your salary. This shows your accommodative nature.
d) Whenever other senior members replied your post, you have posted your view point also. You have not abandoned your post. This shows that you have communicative mindset. You have understood the essence of communication.
Reasons for not getting job in HR (this will involve my frank opinions, please do not get put off by reading them): -
e) I feel that your career ambitions are misplaced. You have chosen wrong direction. The right direction for you would be to pursue career in sales or operations in the Airlines industry. You could choose your career in (Airlines) Training also.
f) Career is built by taking benefit of the competencies built in the past jobs. In contrast, what you would like to do is to start something fresh thereby making these competencies redundant. The cause of your rejection in HR is quaintness of your approach.
g) Before doing MBA in HR, I doubt whether you had made your career plan. Acquirement of certain degree is just a part of career plan. It appears that you have done MBA (HR) under the assumption that acquisition of this degree would give a passport to enter the world of HR.
h) The career plan should have been made after doing market research. Why candidates in HR are selected or why their candidature is turned down that you should have found out and then pursued MBA (HR). Look around and you will find that be it ordinary factory or IT company, for every 100 employees, there are 1-2 employees in HR department. Therefore, what made you to think that you would be given welcome in this miniscule percentage and that too with no prior experience? Above all, you must have done MBA (HR) through correspondence. It is a well-known fact that those who do regular MBA course gets priority over correspondence course. When candidates who have done MBA (HR) through regular course are abundantly available why companies will select a candidate who has done correspondence course?
i) There is big difference between course curriculum of MBA (HR) and what average HR professional does. Probably, you had no idea of it.
j) You have been searching the job in HR for the last three years and then raised this post. In your MBA (HR), you must have one of the subjects as Organisation behaviour. In this subject, you must have learnt theory of decision making or managerial decision making. Why you did not assess your own decision (of the choice of job search in HR) based on this theory? You need to revisit the concepts of management constantly. We do not learn management subjects only to get good score. We have to implement the learning in day to day activities also.
What is the way forward? -
Do not get put off because of my above said critical review of your post or career. I have tried taking dispassionate view. From my point of view, you have following options:
k) Though you are MBA (HR), nothing wrong to pursue career in sales. As such cabin crews have good command over English and they have pleasing personality too. Secondly, for the nine years you have been doing a job that demanded physical exertion. Therefore, going to a field on sales call should not be a problem.
l) One more option for you is to apply for the post of Faculty in MBA (Aviation Management). Who would not like to employ a person who had been in thick of operations for the nine years?
m) The next options is to apply for the job in ground operations in your own industry. It could be in cargo operations also. I say so because you have overall understanding of the rules of safety of air cargo.
n) You could choose job in hospitality industry in the sales department. Initially you need to work at lower salary, however, you will be able to catch up with old salary very fast.
o) Are you good in Maths? If you are good in Maths then you may work in the department that optimises the flight utilisation.
p) Go and approach HR of your company. Ask what are the avenues available to grow. If there is hesitation to approach HR (for most ops staff, they have hesitation), talk to HR of some another airlines. Talk to some senior in the Ops and take his/her views on how to scale ladder of career. Possibly some better suggestions may come.
Final comments: - Hope my reply will satisfy you. It took one and quarter hour for me to type this post. Have a belief on yourself and do not get put off. You will grow surely. Thousands of years ago Greeks use to say "Man know thyself first". Most of our problems arise because of lack of self-awareness. More you understand yourself, more the success will be. Come back after 5-10 years and it would be our pleasure to read that you are holding some senior level position.
For additional reading, go through my following reply:
https://www.citehr.com/525562-correl...rformance.html
All the best!
Dinesh Divekar