In the context of a conversation on outsourcing comes this piece on which HR employees have to be worried about their jobs (Via Gautam).

According to the post, if you are…

“in the area of liasoning with recruiting agencies, shortlisting bio-ds, co-ordinating interview schedules, ensuring people attend training, organising training schedules, ensure people comply to policies, ensuring performance forms are filled by everyone and so on, then in the first place you need to realise that you are involved not in an HR job but an admin job.”

And those who by this definition have admin jobs should be worried about having their jobs outsourced. Administrative work is almost always better off done by “technology or processes.”

So who doesn’t need to be worried? In short, those who pursue the strategic objectives of aligning, motivating and maintaining their workforces.  It’s another perspective on the “seat at the table” argument that we hear about so often. The HR execs that get the seat are those who are focused on true business goals and not administrative ones.