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The answer to this
question will sound more convincing coming from an HR guy with close to
8 years of work experience who has worked with some big names of the
corporate world. This is what Praveen Pantula, a student at Great Lakes
Institute of Management, Chennai, has to say,
"I know that the visibility of HR people has not been spectacular, but
the kind of power youngsters today desire comes with time, you will not
become a power centre in your company just because you did your
management education from some A-grade B-school and so be treated like a
king immediately. The same holds true for HR too. You need to slog it
out real hard for the initial years, but I will also like to add this as
an HR guy in a firm, regardless of your knowing any particular person,
the chances of him/her knowing you are very high. I would not call it
power; reach or accessibility would be better words. You get the best
possible platform for networking and you will know its importance when
you start working. Of course, the utility of these contacts is not
limited to your present employment, as people cannot just stop knowing
each other just because they no longer work together. If you want the
bottom line - yes, there would be power in your hands, but the 'powers
that be' will ensure that you are wise enough to handle that power when
you get it. So the vision of power that MBA aspirants have associated
with certain profiles is not accurate."
The above lines should
serve the purpose of proving that HR profile deals with power to the
same extent as any other management profile and scores above these
profiles in terms of networking.
Having cleared some of
the reasons why you might not go in for HR in your specialization phase,
let me tell you why you should go for it. To back up my point, I will
try to give you some reasons why MBA-HR is going to be hot and evergreen
option; I hope they instill some faith in you.
(a) It is not an
industry specific domain, you learn to deal with 'people issues', you
can deal with people in any set-up, be it media, IT, manufacturing, or
for that matter, ITES. Switching domains is less painful at an advanced
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