Informational Interview: HR Role, Company Culture, & Job Insights

This assignment presents an informational interview conducted to understand the role of a Human Resource (HR) Manager. The interview explores various aspects of the job, including the most appealing features of the career path, typical daily routines, work-life balance, and the most enjoyable aspects of the job. It also delves into the company's cultural traditions, the best ways to secure a job within the organization, and the required personal qualities for success. Additionally, the interview addresses the most challenging aspects of the HR role, such as employee terminations. The assignment concludes with the student's reflections on the interview, highlighting the insights gained regarding job requirements, corporate environments, and the importance of HR training. References from Chadwick, Super and Kwon (2015) and Cohen (2015) are included to support the analysis.

Running head: INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW
Informational Interview
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An Informational Interview is conducted to gain insights about the job profile and the
role that the employee would take up after joining the company. It helps to provide
knowledge about the organization and also gain advice from the company officials. The
various questions to be asked in an informational interview are as follows:
1. What is the most attractive feature of this career path?
The career path of an HR is a flexible discipline as the HR is incorporated with
various skills and knowledge and is the heart of the business. The duty as an HR is to help the
people of the organization to enhance their performance (Chadwick, Super and Kwon 2015).
It is associated with the hiring process, training programs and settles various disputes of the
employees within an organization. Moreover, being an HR is enjoyable as it adds value to the
employee’s life and helping people provides enjoyment.
2. What according to you is a typical day here?
A typical day as a Human Resource manager starts with advising the customer service
team to improve the communication skills on the telephone and evaluating the improvements
imparted by the employees. Then, having a lunch break with the company colleagues, then
spending time for scheduling the organizational meeting and deciding new program for
company benefit. Then, managing the salary of the employees and recruitment of new
employees proves to be enjoyable. Moreover, at the end of the day, evaluation of the
performance of the employee’s is also done.
3. How is the work-life balance maintained?
The work life balance is essential for any employee so as that for an HR. The work
life balance is properly maintained as one just needs to prioritise time, have proper insights of
strengths. As an HR, professional starting the day a little early and spending time with family
members provides a proper maintained work life balance. Moreover, we are often provided
with amount of leaves such that one can spend time with the family members.

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4. What is most enjoyable about the job?
The most enjoyable fact about being an HR is that you don’t have a null day. Each
day seems as an opportunity to meet new people possessing new and different talents that
provide me a chance to see different parts of the world. This also paves a way for continuous
improvement throughout. Moreover, being an HR has huge impact on the company as new
employees are recruited by an HR.
5. What is the cultural tradition of the company?
The company is involved with various traditions, rituals and ceremonies. Different
festivals are also celebrated such as Women’s day, Christmas and many more. Moreover,
birthdays and new years are also celebrated in the company.
6. What is the best way to get a job in this company?
The best way to enter into this occupation is to obtain training as a Human Resource
Manager as well as obtain a certification in the human resource discipline. This would help a
great deal in obtaining a job as an HR professional.
7. What are the personal qualities required to success in this job?
The personal qualities that are required for job as an HR professional are time
management and self discipline. The candidate should have good communication skills and
should also be trustworthy (Cohen 2015). Moreover, the candidate should have good
knowledge and expertise in the human resource.
8. What do you consider as the toughest part of the job?
The toughest part of the job of an HR professional is to fire an employee as the
company has to grow and such employees that do not contribute to the growth of the
organisation should get terminated. The decision is hard as we build a relationship with the
employees and firing them gets tough.

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The informational Interview with the HR helped me gain insights about the job profile
of the Human Resource Manager. I also got to know the requirements needed for working as
an HR in an organization. This interview will also help me find job faster as the requirements
are pretty clear to me. This also helped me to understand that working in a corporate
environment is fun and enjoyable. I also got to know that a training as an HR will also help
me to enter in the occupation easily. Moreover, the informational interview also provided me
with deep knowledge about the work life balance of the HR manager. I also gathered
information regarding the cultural tradition of the company.

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References
Chadwick, C., Super, J.F. and Kwon, K., 2015. Resource orchestration in practice: CEO
emphasis on SHRM, commitment‐based HR systems, and firm performance. Strategic
Management Journal, 36(3), pp.360-376.
Cohen, D.J., 2015. HR past, present and future: A call for consistent practices and a focus on
competencies. Human Resource Management Review, 25(2), pp.205-215.