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A typical day in the life of HR person

When I got a mail for inviting write ups for the guest column in HR Daily Advisor, I was sure I want to send something. It had to be on HR was not a big deal cause I though that I have written before and some of my articles have also been published so what’s the big deal. But well life is not always the way we plan. Neither was mine as HR manager. So what’s its like being the HR person of an organization? That’s exactly what my article is about. A typical day in the life of HR person. What does an HR person think when she gets up in the morning? I wish I was given as much credit for my work as any other professional. On the way to office- Two interviews, one training, and oh that employee survey. And what do I do with the two departments which are going crazy over whose responsibility was it to get the paper signed. Why cant they just follow the rules and stop bringing their egos to work. Once in office – Oh god I have got mail, and then a call from boss trying to tell me that one o

If life were so easy

If life were so easy then we would all be exhausted by now. I have often observed that what is easy is never either appreciated or achieved. As human beings we also look for some adventure, some different, some......thing. We often tell ourselves, this is tooooo good to be true. This is too easy. And in the attempt we forget what actually matters. Just to do it. Easy or tough it is what it is.. Why bother with complicated solutions when the answer sometimes is bang in front of our faces... but then we dont want that answer. We are looking for a solution. A solution that perfect...Why do we even try to be simple. Easy, simple these are for those who dont know what it takes to be successful. To be succesful one has to know all complicated stuff.. the solutions have got to be difficult otherwise its not worth the effort.