9am: Check mail. Send out communication to other functions

10am: Meet team members and get updates on major projects

11am: Meet functional heads to chalk out programmes for their teams, including training, manpower planning, audits etc. Teleconference with other location heads 1pm: Lunch with colleagues 2pm: Update CEO/business heads 3pm: Handle interviews 5pm: Conduct meetings; review future plans and initiatives etc

7pm: Go home

• Ability to work under pressure, demonstrate discretion and integrity while being fair-minded
• Strong domain knowledge
• Be able to align people resource strategy with business goals
• Strong communication skills

• One needs to have a wide knowledge base.
• Being part of recruitment, it is satisfying providing employment to the right candidate.
• Nurturing and watching people develop in the organisation.
• Personally enriching and intellectually stimulating career
• You could get caught between conflicting expectations of the organisation and its people

One can obtain a bachelor’s degree in human resources administration and management. Follow this up with a master’s or MBA programme in human resources. A summer internship in a company’s HR department will give you thatv extra edge

• XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
• Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune