Starting salary for a management trainee with a PG diploma is  Rs.2.5 lakh to R4 lakh a year. With three years’ experience, the salary can be around R9 lakh a year and with 10 years’ experience, your earnings can go as high as Rs.27 lakh a year.

The average day of an instrumentation engineer at an oil refinery:
9am: Plan the daily calendar with special focus on priority tasks, 11am: Attend to priority tasks, 1pm: Meeting with consultants, vendors and agencies, 2pm: Lunch, 3pm: Progress meetings with team, 4pm: Closure on executional / operational plans, 6.30pm: Closure on updates and daily task list8pm: Leave for home

• 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.
• Playing the mediator between the management and employees can be stressful.
• Sometimes one needs to put personal feelings aside and make hard decisions based on facts.

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 stand you in good stead.