I want to do MBA in HR and finance. Will it be a good option for my career? Can you please tell this?

Dear Gopi, MBA is a professional programme, you must evaluate he colleges/university on following parameters before taking a plunge: Curriculum : If at all the curriculum is continuously upgraded and developed with consultations and feedback of industry. Since management is a highly dynamic field, you can't afford a programme which is stuck in obsolete theories and syllabi. Pedagogy : The teaching pedagogy forms the backbone of how the programme is delivered, more the practical, better it is. Maximum exposure to practicals and internships more chances of becoming a well rounded professional. Technology: The businesses and the business functions are now highly tech driven, the management programme must have the exposure and training of the same. Industry interface: Ultimately its the industry which is going to immerse the students in the placements, the regular industrial talks, interactions, lectures, visits and internships are must have in any management programme. Professional etiquette: It is the most important part these days, the personality, ethics, virtuous, speech, body language, interpersonal skills etc. Are given high importance in the organisations. The programme must include the training or modules on all these. Diversity: As the world shrinks into a aligned economy, the professionals will be required to work in cross cultural teams having entirely different work culture and ethos, the national and international diversity of students in a college is helpful in enabling the students develop right sensibilities for such work atmosphere. Entrepreneurship : Even though most of the students go for jobs, the exposure to entrepreneurship is required. This helps the professionals know how the other departments and the profit center heads work, what are the expectations etc. The college must have innovation labs, design thinking and business incubator. Community service: A bit of community projects in between the course are very important to develop the humane side of the person as well as learn the organizing skills. Placements : The programme is only means to the end ! And desired end of such course is a placement. You must check if the college/university has sold track record of placements or not. My 16 years in education tell me that LPU is far ahead in all these parameters, which boil down to fabulous placements. DVD.

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Hi Gopi, It depends on your interest. You can't go wrong with either of the choices. HR is an evergreen field and operations management has started coming up in a big way now. In terms of job opportunities, you may still find more in HR. Hope this information helps. Please feel free to revert. Wish you luck.

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An option is only good if that suits you and it can only suit you if you have interest in that particular domain so that you explore and understand it better. Apart from it, yes, taking finance as major in which you would pursue your career can be easily handled with HR as minor. Workload management would be best. If you ask for suggestion, I would suggest going for finance+marketing as this is the demand of future as sales is everywhere.

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It depends upon your interest. If your communication is good and you like theory, then you should go with HR or finance. You need to focus in facts and figure and accounts also.

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The scope of both these field is continuously growing and this university is best for this course plus there are placements drive organized by the college, you can opt this college for this course.

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Hi Dear,It depends on your interest. You can't go wrong with either of the choices. HR is an evergreen field and operations management has started coming up in a big way now. In terms of job opportunities, you may still find more in HR.

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Yes, surely you can go for dual specialization in HR and finance, and it is really good. You will have a good career scope in this, as very few go for finance and HR both and demand is there for finance students.

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Plenty of opportunities in the fields of Finance, banking, even in Accounting and Management consultancy. You can be a financial analyst or a business development officer or a fund adviser or work in the stock market. You can be a corporate planner who takes care of the financial side of the business by offering sound advice to the CEO when it comes to the feasibility of a new business, joint venture or partnership. It also depends on your current work, which department you belong and the exposure you got which enables you to enhance your skills. Coming to MBA in HR. Let me first start with what you will learn. Human Resources basically deals with things that concerns other people. You will learn about different personality types, traits, behaviors, ways of training and conditioning, a little bit of communication, types of organizations, evaluation parameters, etc. Apart from these you'll have some subjects which are common to other streams of MBA as well. Some of the most common jobs for HR graduates include Training & Development, Recruitment, Policy-making, Counselling, etc. You can have your own consultancy firm as well. If you have done BA /MA in Psychology before MBA (HR) then you would be more than qualified to be a psychologist. You could also be employed by firms to look at the mental side of consumer behavior.

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Yes Gopi, both options are good and you can go for dual specialization, so you can choose both HR and Finance and you can get good placement.

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As per my opinion and knowledge you also know that today’s world has a lot of competition but if you are an MBA with good communication skills then you can good scope.

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