What it Means to be an HR Professional: A Discussion

This report discusses what it means to be an HR professional by using the reference to the current CIPD professional map. It explores the behaviours, knowledge, and skills required for a career in HR.

MANAGING PEOPLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Means to be an HR professional..................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
This report discusses statement that evaluates what it means to be an HR professional by
using the reference to the current CIPD professional map. There are CIPD Professions Map is
generally a tool that outlines behaviours, knowledge and skills which are required for developing
a career under the HR (human resource) function.
MAIN BODY
Means to be an HR professional
Becoming a very effective HR professionals is not a small task to a person in market
place. Basically, a person has to puts its huge efforts to be a human resource professional.
According CIPD professional map, an effective HR professional has always an excellent
behaviour which each employee like in the workplace, it mostly has enough knowledge about
how to conducts different human resource management practices in the workplace. At the end,
HR professional has always many effective skills, like; communication, time management,
problem-solving, interpersonal, teamwork etc. and these all skills or abilities contributes in
professional’s live for working very well in the workplace. Currently most organisations and
companies in market place are trying to hire effective HR professionals in their workplace,
because when any company has many effective HR professionals, then they can simply manage
it’s all employees and workers in the workplace. According to CIPD, professional always
contribute in providing very productive workforce to a company in the market place.
Means to be an HR professional is very simply that managing all work and operations
which can positively affect to any employees in the workplace of a business. In this modern
world, a business cannot imagine its business operations without an effective HR professional.
After having many professionals of HR, top-level management of a business can simply
formulate a very excellent HRM functional department within its work culture. There are
recruiting & hiring, training & development, employee relations, employee retention, etc. are
major practices to HR professional in the workplace, and each professional has always required
to conduct these all practices of human resource management in very proper manner. On the

basis of CIPD professional map, there are ethical practice, valuing people, commercial drive and
working inclusively, etc. are key behaviors of HR professionals.
On the other side, an effective HR professional has always knowledge of people practice,
culture & behavior, analytics and creating value and digital working, etc. Without having
knowledge about these all aspects, no person can be an effective HR professional. Skills and
abilities also highly matter in the job role of HR professional, in which there are employee
experience, diversity& and inclusion, communication, problem-solving, team work, employee
relations, reward, resourcing, talent management, learning and development and people analytic
etc. some major skills or abilities to an effective HR professional. These all behaviors, areas of
knowledge and skills & abilities are highly mandatory in a person for becoming a HR
professional.
CONCLUSION
It be concluded that, there are appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviour enables to an
ordinary person to be an HR professional in market place. Lived experiences in the field of HRM
makes people very effective HR professionals.