Thank you for choosing MeraCareerguide and writing to us. Choosing a career in HR is highly appreciating. But an interest into this field will alone not help. A HR profession requires additional people skills to be successful in this type of career. You should develop and demonstrate excellent people skills like effective communication, effective writing, presentation, listening, negotiating, relationship handling, conflict handling and organizing skills. As this job requires you to interact with people from a variety of ethnic culture and background on a day to day basis, you should be a person with open heart and easy to get along. If you are a person who would love to engage with people and not be reserved, this field is a right choice for you as you possess the required skills naturally for this type of job. Regarding your question, I can base my answer for you in two ways.

1. Work then study: As you have graduated now, you can directly go to work. So, you don't have to think of doing any degree or diploma now. Find suitable entry level jobs in HR and start working. Being a fresher, you will be suitable to work as a HR trainee or a Management trainee. You may be suitable for 'recruitment and selection', as this is the ultimate destination where most of the HR freshers land up. Lot of companies and HR consultancies in India offer entry level roles in recruitment field like HR Analyst, Assistant recruiter, Sourcing Analyst. This job requires you to identify suitable candidates for the respective job vacancies, invite and schedule them for an interview. You may also work as a Recruiter if you possess relevant knowledge in recruiting the person for the job he is hired for. As you progress in job, you will be promoted to Recruiter, Senior recruiter and then Recruiting Manager. You may come into this position in two-three years time if you perform well at work. After this three year experience, you can consider either doing a PG Diploma in HR or an MBA with HR. Doing either of these degrees after gaining some work experience will eventually help you understand your subject more in depth and could also help you in getting high scores in your MBA or PGDM. You also stand with good probability of being hired after your diploma or MBA in HR as companies prefer candidates with work experience. If you are considering a Diploma in HR, IIM Calcutta, XLRI, IMD, NMIMS, Xavier, IIT KGP, IIM Ranchi, Welingkar Institute of Management are the reputed ones for diploma in HR, in India. You can also consider doing an MBA with HR as major specialization at the IIM's, IIT's, ISB Hyderabad as they are world renowned B-schools from India.

2. Study then work: If you are keen to study now and then work, you can still do so. You can sit for CAT tests and get top scores and apply for PGD-HRM in India. You can consider the above mentioned reputed B-schools for applying. But please understand that gaining some work experience first and then studying further is always good. As I have already said, you attract employers quite easily with a professional degree + work experience rather just having a degree certificate.

I would sincerely suggest you to start working in entry level roles now, gain substantiate work experience and then do a professional degree like the MBA in HR or if not, the PG Diploma in HR. In case you cannot leave your job and go back to study a full time degree, you can consider studying part time with reputable schools. This website has information on India's most reputed schools that offers part time courses for working professionals: www.hugheseducation.com You can attend evening or weekend classes without leaving your job. They are highly recognised degrees for executive professionals.

I hope this helps. Please write back if you have any further queries. Good luck.