Feeling Uncertain About a Career in HR? Seeking Guidance and Insights on Growth Areas

My name is Kishore Kumar, and I am currently in my final year of MBA. I have doubts about pursuing a career in HR. I am unsure if the HR field is suitable for me and I have some self-doubts. I would appreciate any help in overcoming these doubts.

I am interested in knowing which department within the HR field is currently experiencing peak growth. Any assistance in clarifying my doubts about HR would be greatly appreciated.

You need to list down at least 10 professions, then narrow down which ones are closely related to your studies. Carefully review the nature of the jobs and choose wisely the one that suits you best. All the best.

Dear Kishore Kumar, Unless you elaborate on your doubts, exact help is not on its way. Does HR suit you? This is a question that can be answered if you lay down your traits. No one knows you personally here. In regards to salary, well, as a fresher, you will have to struggle everywhere to prove your mettle, be it HR, Marketing, Finance, or any other department. So choose a career for your satisfaction. Money comes second because even if you earn money and are not able to perform, you will be chucked out anyway.

List down your queries and your traits, and maybe we are able to help you reach a solution.

Regards, Ashutosh Thakre

Your query is a standard one many freshers get while passing out from college. To answer your query about the present, one needs to go back in time. Like Nathrao asked, what is your MBA's core specialty and, more importantly, why did you choose this over any other(s)? Is it that you went along with your friends, or did you have any specific reasons?

Coming to Your Primary Query

"Now In HR Field Which Department Is Going On Peak."

Please note that as long as you hitch your career to whatever field is in demand today, there is no guarantee and will never be any guarantee that this is the right choice for you. Choose whatever field where you are happy internally. If you focus excessively on money, position, or any external factors, there are bound to be situations when they will take a hit, and that's when you begin to feel, "Did I make a mistake?"

A quote by Zig Ziglar sums up what you can do: "Attitude and aptitude determine altitude." So, irrespective of whether the field is in demand or not, as long as you have the aptitude (meaning deep interest) and attitude (meaning willingness to go to whatever extent needed to make your mark), you can succeed in any field. And when you don't have any of these two attributes, it doesn't matter even if you are in a field that's the most in-demand field, you are bound to repent at some point in time.

Like Ashutosh Thakre mentioned, "choose a career for your satisfaction." And mistakes in such matters can be minimized when one goes into the field that he/she enjoys doing, else that would be just another job you do for a living and invariably has the potential to create unhappiness later on.

When you are unable to decide what's your mental nature or outlook (which is quite possible even for experienced persons), I suggest Google and find the many psychometric tests that are available for free. Take a couple of them to get some insights into your own nature—which points to the real you and not what one exhibits/projects/manifests outside—they can help you to decide which career line is most apt for you.

There's nothing "right/wrong" or "good/bad" in such decisions, only the most apt (or otherwise) for that individual.

All the best.

Regards,
TS

I feel HRM is the best branch of management studies because no matter where you are 'man management' is an integral part of life! But if we consider rewards vis-a-vis efforts, then obviously marketing people take the cream. This is because in marketing or to some extent in finance or operations, the targets can be relatively easily matched with achievements, whereas in HRM barring attrition rate (e.g., it declined substantially in Infosys after they changed their appraisal system), it is not so.

Believe in yourself first and improve your communication skills. Gather enough information about HR.

All the best.

Traits Essential for a Career in HR

Having taken up HR as a profession, it goes without saying that the following traits are inevitable:

• Compassion towards human beings and their issues
• Empathy
• Problem-solving approach
• Proactive and not merely critical
• Networking
• Hands-on comprehension of the situation and above all
• Perceptiveness

If you see that you possess more than 60% of the above, you are made for it, Kishore!