Trends Impacting HR Profession

This report discusses the trends that have a positive impact on the HR profession, including the adoption of digital technology, globalization, online skill assessment, and recruitment process. It also highlights the skills and knowledge required for success in the HR profession.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Trends which has positive impact on the HR profession.......................................................3
Skills and knowledge for the profession................................................................................5
Advertisement for the job openings in HR field and how it become important to the graduates
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
The skills and knowledge of an individual is necessary for achieving success in the
organisation (Grima-Farrell, 2015). The employees in the organisation are having knowledge of
the industry and they should maintain the skills which are important for increasing productivity.
The knowledge is the most important factor and the employees should work towards increasing
brushing the skills. I am taking Human resource as a profession because it is the most important
resource of the organisation whether they are in any industry. The human resource should be
managed because the employees help the organisation to grow. The report includes the trends
which will impact the profession, skills and knowledge which will be required in the
organisation.
MAIN BODY
Trends which has positive impact on the HR profession.
In context of business organisation, HR profession plays a very crucial role in the growth
and development of the business. As they are responsible to focus on the proper management of
the human resource within the organisation (Wang, 2013). They act as a support system for the
employees within the organisation where HR department helps them to enhance their career
objective. They has impact on the performance of the employees as according to their
contribution they are provided appraisal and get recognition in the organisation. In this growing
business world the changes which are taking place has a impact on HR profession which is
explained below-
Adoption of digital technology- With the advancement in the technology the people are
shifting from traditional methods to digital methods and are dependent on digital methods as it
make the functions easier. The use of digital ways and techniques has an impact on the HR
profession as they are not familiar with these methods and require time to know its operations in
business process. The role of HR is important as they are responsible to manage the most
valuable asset of the company that is human resource. Thus, once they come to know the
functioning of these technological factors there work become easy and can drive effective
results.
Globalisation- This is one of the important factor which effect the HR profession as
globalisation lead to changes in the operation system where it becomes difficult for them to
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manage the employees in the different way. Moreover if the company want to expand its
business in other countries then the globalisation has impact on the HR activities as they need to
develop new strategics to deal with the situations at global level. In the process of expansion the
company need to hire new employees and focus on their train and development due to which
there workload increases (Yamamoto, 2013). There primary focus is to provide safe and
comfortable working environment to new people. These different activities need to be handled
by HR department where each activity has different context according to different work culture
and environment. In order to control and regulate these divers set of activities the HR department
need to come up with new strategies and innovate methods in order to influence the employees
and achieve the targets in the most effective and efficient way.
Online skill assessment- These factors play important role in the activities and practices
of the HR profession as with the use of various digital tools company can effectively manage the
talent of its employees. With the use of various methods such as surveys, tests, exams, etc they
can identify the mind set of its employees and moreover provide an opportunity to its employees
to take self assessment to know where they stand in the organisation. By this method they come
to know lot many things about employees and can take its advantage by focusing on their weak
areas and improving them (Jiang, 2017). Furthermore, they can increase the productivity level of
the company by assigning work to employees according to their skills and capabilities. They are
responsible to help the organisation in achieving its business goals make the employees more
effective and efficient so that they can perform much better.
Recruitment process- Its the responsibility of the HR profession to identify the talent
from the group of people and according to the requirements of the company (Hou, Wu and Liu,
2014). Talent recruitment has the major impact on the activities of HR as its very important to
hire talented and skilled people in order to help the organisation in achieving there goals and
objectives.
Hence, all these trends have impact on the activities of the HR profession and its
important for them to consider these activities and trends in order to take corrective steps
accordingly and perform their functions in most effective manner.
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Skills and knowledge for the profession
The human resource of the organisation is responsible for selecting the employees and
motivating them to perform better. They are the most important department because the
employees will help the organisation to grow.
Skills for Human resource
 Communication skills- The relationship in the organisation is maintained by
communicating it with others. The human resource department in the organisation should
communicate with the employees to help them understand the strategies of the
organisation (Vetere and Stratton, 2016).
 Achieving the strategies- The human resource department selects the employees
according to the capabilities and help them in increasing the performance. They should
help them in achieving the goals of the organisation. The employees will achieve the
strategies when they have the knowledge. The organisation will grow when the
employees are performing to increase the satisfaction.
 Team work- The employees perform in the team in they should be working towards
achieving the goals of the team. The human resource department is helping the
employees in team allocation according to the knowledge of employees.
 Development of the resources- The employees in the organisation are responsible for
achieving the goals and they are helped by the human resource department because they
will develop the skills of employees and make them perform better in the organisation.
The employees should increase the knowledge and they should perform to achieve the
goals of the organisation.
Knowledge for Human resource
 Selecting the right candidate- The human resource department should have the
knowledge to select the employees for the organisation. The skills should be according to
the need of the organisation.
 Maintaining relationship with the employees- The employees should have the long
term relationship with the organisation. The knowledge of human resource is important
for making strategies to increase the performance of the employees (Davies, Curtin and
Robson, 2017).
Experience for Human resource
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 Skilled employees- The human resource department has many employees and they be
skilled to achieve the goals of the organisation. The employees should work together and
the task of the human resource department is to select the employees which will help the
organisation to grow.
 Problem solving- The employees in an organisation work together to increase the
satisfaction and they are important for the organisation (Von Suchodolez and et.al.,
2018). There are many conflicts between the employees and the human resource
department should solve it to increase the employees satisfaction in the organisation.
Advertisement for the job openings in HR field and how it become important to the graduates
Vacancy Announcement
H&M, a well established company in the fashion sector, invites the fresher for the vacant
position in HR.
Designation: Human Resource
Qualification: Any graduate and Post-graduate from management and commerce stream.
Experience:
 Fresher can apply Minimum 1 year experience in HR field may get preference
Job Description:
 To assist the resources in their best way.
 To handle the queries and issues related to the other employees.
 Prepare and maintain the documents related to employees. Perform the function related to recruitment and selection.
Age: Minimum 20 years and Maximum 30 years.
Applying process: Filled application Form with updated resume and passport size photo, should
be submitted online on the company website: www.career.hm.com
Benefits for the freshers and Graduate
The job opening in such a big brand and reputed company like H&M, gives a good
opportunity and bright future to the freshers and a graduate student. As the company opening a
large numbers of vacancy in a developing and versatile sector of Human Resource. And the most
important thing is they are searching for freshers also, so a student who is graduate and fresher
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also have a great opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge (Kaya and et.al., 2017).
Furthermore it is interesting that in such a big company they get to know about how to deals in
the uncertain situations, increase their links by contacting other people. It also help in learning
how to manage with the other employees and how to maintain a good relationship with other
members of the company. In HR, most needed thing is good communication skills and leadership
skills. All these skills are helpful to developed the individual profile and as well as beneficial for
the companies growth.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that HR profession play significant role in
the operations and functions of the business in order to provide desire results to the organisation.
They are responsible to manage the human resource and to look that the policies and rules are
been followed by all the employees.
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