{"id":317,"date":"2006-04-10T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-04-09T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:53:28","slug":"gautam-ghosh-the-new-hr-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Ghosh &#8211; The new HR professional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gautamblogs.com\/2006\/01\/new-hr-professional.html\">Gautam wrote this <\/a>quite a long time ago, and I&#8217;ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I&#8217;m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR can influence a company\u2019s bottom line, especially in the knowledge economy, where talent is a key asset. Professionals from a wide range of backgrounds are now moving into HR, where they see exciting development potential, writes the author. Alongside business and financial skills, HR students are now learning to think strategically, he adds. Industry insiders expect future HR programs to cover globalization issues, regulation and technology. <\/em>  ((Ghosh, Gautam, January 27, 2006.  &#8220;The New HR Professional?&#8221;  Retrieved from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gautamblogs.com\/2006\/01\/new-hr-professional.html\">Gautam Ghosh on Management<\/a> on March 11, 2006.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New entrants into HR are continuously more business oriented than prior generations of entrants. While most current senior HR executives either grew to understand the business, or were nurtured in other operational units and came to HR, the new generation seems to be learning the value of integration with business strategy right &#8220;out of the box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do believe that technology allows new entrants to the job market with an opportunity to view the HR world in a more strategic rather than tactical fashion.\u00a0 They will more intuitively understand the usages and opportunities that HR technology brings, and be able to transcend the gap between strategy, technology and tactic &#8211; something that is very hard to find in HR practitioners today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rare competency to find people who understand all 3 elements and can combine them into a cohesive vision for HR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I&#8217;ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I&#8217;m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","category-talent-management","category-workforce-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}