Hi,
Why the question?
Are you considering HR as a probable career?
Regardless, HR atracts many as a career for different reasons. There is no point in generalizing the points of attractions. I will share my reasons for choosing HR as a career.
As an observer of people in various interactions, formal, informal, social, personal, contesting, coolaborating, cooperating the behavioural dynamics fascinated me no end. I also realized that for any higher achievement one needs to understand people. (You never undersand them fully anyway!)
So at the right stage of my academics, I decided to study formally the subjects concerned with undersanding human beings before I could make it my career!
Long before I realized that the challenges are enormous. No two situations are alike and are not ameanable to same solution.
It is the unpredicatabilty of human behaviour that made my decision easy.
The challenges are formidable, success rate may be low, but even one success once in a while is so tremendously satisfying that it makes up for all previous frustrations.
And to cap it all, to work with the only animate resource available to the organization is in itself a strong attraction in favour of HR as a career.
BUT.....
Unless the personality, learned knowledge, skills, attitude are in sync and are backed by determination, the choice of HR as a career could go wrong and could lead to misery. To be in HR career, the success requires also a suitable amd matching peersonality.
Hope the point is clear.
Regards
samvedan
January 13, 2006