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Do you aspire to be an HR professional? Do you know what it takes to be one? Recently, we saw a lot of interest around HR on our platform. To cater to this rising interest, we decided to have a chat with a true blue HR professional, Harshita Chaudhary, SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources). Harshita has close to a decade of experience in the HR function, having worked with big names like Mondelez (then Cadbury), Nestle, Colgate Palmolive and Honeywell. Currently, she works at Freshworks as Senior Manager OD & Talent.
  Coming from a family of professionals, she got into TISS, where she found her inclination for HR. There, she further developed the skills and qualities needed to be a successful HR professional. From TISS, she got into Cadbury (later Mondelez) in a Sales HR role. From there, she moved to Colgate Palmolive in the Chennai Metro, where she faced a whole new challenge of language barrier. She talks of the skills and qualities required to thrive in such a position. With Colgate, she even held a factory role, telling us in detail how professionals in the FMCG sector can benefit from such a role.
This is Part 1 of Harshita's full interview.
Later in the video, she talks about the coronavirus crisis and how it is affecting the corporate world. She says this is the time that current students and graduates need to utilise productively and upskill themselves. In addition, you need to interact with people in the industry of your choice and understand the current trends that industry is facing. This will give you direction in what kind of skills and qualities you need to develop to be able to thrive in that industry. If you are wondering what you can do to prepare for the future, this video is for you! This is a new series of talks that we are doing amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the lockdowns and the curfews, we are making all the efforts to ensure that you keep getting insightful and relevant content. So sit back and make the most of your social distancing with this episode of ‘Konversations in Quarantine'!

Key Takeaways:
1. HR MBA courses are structured in a way to give students a glimpse into the other disciplines.
2. Resilience, the willingness to take up challenges, and the ability to connect with people are very important qualities to have if you are looking for a Sales HR role.
3. Every region in the country behaves differently. This will affect your work as a sales professional.
4. If you are part of something like the FMCG sector, working in a factory/manufacturing can give you a lot of insights.
5. To do a high-level job, you need to have a wide perspective, which includes experience that goes all the way down the line.
6. You need to build multiple skills to be a more desirable candidate.
7. Interact with people from your preferred domains. It’ll give you interesting insights that can further help you upskill yourself.
8. HR today needs to become a ‘Trend Sensor’ of people trends for organisations to be able to take care of their employees.


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