Rahul Jain is an HR professional with close to 25 years of experience, he is also Associate Certified Coach (as per ICF), Mentor, Master level Certified Reiki Healer, Speaker, Campus Panelist, Storyteller, Social media enthusiast ranked by SHRM India amongst Top 35 HR professionals to follow on X (earlier Twitter) known for his handle @BeingHR. Rahul has worked with reputed organizations in Asia pacific region based at Singapore and India with diversified industry segments and is the recipient of “The Great Managers Award 2018” by People Business and ET Now and has been a speaker at World HRD Congress (Mumbai) and played an important role to secure 4th ranking for his employer as “Dream companies to work with” by Times Ascent in 2017.
Everytime you are able to find some humour in a difficult situation, you win. Work life brings a fair share of humor in our daily life. If it isn’t a difficult colleague, it’s an unscrupulous competitor, or brainless people putting long hours to solve a simple problem, stressful deadlines, people dealing with changes and technology, all such situations can be funny and inspiration to draw a cartoon. If you like reading funny stuff and flip through the cartoons, author guarantee you that it will be the quickest book for you to finish and you will recommend it to other readers too. By having this book you can contribute to society as part of the earning from the book is meant for charitable purposes.
The book #BeingHR … Being Humour Resource is a work of fiction.
Names, characters and incidents are the wild and funny imagination of the author although inspiration is take from workplace situations. If you resemble any of the characters or incidents … then you have been a soft target.
This book is for readers with a busy schedule as it assure you that once you start reading it, you will be compelled to finish it in one go with lots of laughter.
This book is for all those readers who are in HR or deal with and also wonder what HR guys do. It’s for all superstar and budding HR professionals in industry who have seen or will encounter most of these situations in worklife.
This book is also for readers who enjoy jokes, sense of humor, admire creativity and have courage of laughing at self.
Link to the book:- https://amzn.eu/d/faBTqUU
Let’s delve into the author’s insights.
Q1.What inspired you to write a humorous book focused on HR professionals and their experiences?
Ans: #BeingHR … Being Humour Resource is a collection of my hand drawn cartoons over the years which I was posting on my social media accounts and was circulating to my friends which were not getting its due attention and recognition but then there was a need felt to showcase my creative side to the larger readers and book lovers in a collective manner. When it was a time to publish the book, all the hand drawn cartoons were digitalized for better print/quality purposes and they were given a logical sequence to showcase the fun side of work life and employee life cycle.
Q2.Can you share some insights into your creative process while coming up with the wild and funny characters and incidents in the book?
Ans: Those who know me closely are familiar with my repartee and sense of humour. I am blessed to have playfulness which doesn’t hurt anyone but keeps people smiling and laughing.
The cartoons in my book are inspired from real life incidents and my funny imagination out of a serious situation. Situations at work, colleagues, friends triggered many creative ideas and then I have drawn it using paper pen and at times digitally.
Q3.How do you balance humor with addressing the realities of the HR profession in your book?
Ans: All the cartoons in my book have some situation inspiring it, funny side of the situation is expressed through cartoons. Cartoons take a dig at hard hitting realities whereas after each of the cartoons I have put text or comments which gives lots of insight, knowledge and learning to readers. Readers can quickly relate these cartoons as most of them have experienced similar situations in one or the other organization.
Q4.Were there any personal experiences or anecdotes from your own HR career that influenced the content of the book?
Ans: Yes, there are cartoons in this book based on my own experience in HR. Have seen people in HR who preach something and practice something else. At times people tend to ignore the real issues, wrongly define problems and search for solutions which is not at all relevant, people using too much of jargons, superstitious managers, people doing over analysis (leading to mental paralysis), leaders going overboard to bring in artificial intelligence while struggling with issues of human intelligence, false commitments, missing timelines, emotional blackmails and so on. This book covers 120+ situations and makes you laugh.
Q5.What do you hope readers, especially those in HR, take away from your book in terms of understanding the profession better?
Ans:- Book is loaded with fun elements, readers or HR professionals will get a chance to laugh at first place, reflect on what they have been doing and seen humourous. Cartoons are for fun but has a message or take too. This book makes HR people laugh at themselves and I know self-deprecating is not everyone’s cup of tea, so they can enjoy coffee (puns intended). Have fun!
Book review in renowned Business Manager Magazine:- https://www.businessmanager.in/beinghr-being-humour-resource-fun-side-of-work-life/