What do you think Current Young HR Professionals (Experience between 0-4 years) look for?
Key Points for Review:
1. Majority of 58% of people posted that they look for generalist exposure to HR. An ability to perform Generalist jobs in the HR Function.2. While the lowest with 6% of people mentioned an extreme learning experience in their jobs.
3. Focus on money expressed by 16% of people and any job/specialization should be okay with them.
The Reasons may be as follows (More interpretation can be done in Discussions/Comments):
• Beginning of the career always focuses more on acquiring diverse knowledge and while experimenting on various tasks/jobs.• While low focus on Extreme learning experience can be attributed to the opportunities to learn at that stage of career.
• 10% of specialized exposure voting can be more attributed the desire to work in Recruitment, Training, Employee Engagement and other specialized function in large organizations.
Key Inputs/Take-away:
• HR is such a vast subject and requires quite focus in the Initial stages.• An Effort to build a career in HR gives the desired momentum for growth
• Growth always begins from Hands on Experience to strategic thinking opportunity in HR
• The more diversified in function and industry would be a great plus for building better HR career
• Building capabilities at each stage important : Like-in Recruitment Function (Can you Interview better in identifying competencies), Employee Retention (Do you understand the psychology in relation to business), Training ( can you stand up and Train & manage a group’s learning) etc.,
• Focus on Building career on the basis of “Human Management /HR function is in Every Industry”. Building HR experience around an Industry/Function may not be a better solution for growth in long-term to play a strategic roles.
• Ultimately, remember you need to grow to a stage to manage a business than just function.
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