Do you feel that working in HR area is less prestigious than in strategy, finance or any other function? Also perception from S&O and MBB colleagues is sometimes arrogant.

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Might have been the case 15 or 20 years ago, but today there are tons of interesting roles and career paths within the "people" function. Many folks in strategy, sales or finance still think of the Personnel department of yore and throw shade accordingly.

I stopped caring what Strategy consultants think of my work a long time ago. We all know what most of our clients think of theirs. McKinsey isn't aggressively building its human capital capabilities for nothing.

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No. I used to. Aka when I was in college and dint know shit. But then I started working and realized it didn’t matter. People will cling to anything that makes them feel superior.

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Definitely not. Obviously it depends on what area of human capital/ people enablement you work in. I think step one to selling yourself better is by not calling it HR; HR is very function specific and our work stems across the full organization.

The work we do is to help the employees and people within organizations and business/organizations are nothing without their people!

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Thank you guys/gals. More stories and experience on how to deal with it are appreciated.

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Where is McKinsey expanding? In core consulting or through another delivery arm? I wasn't aware of them building out capability in this space.

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I know a year ago BCG made a push to hire experienced change management people. So, second the thought that the “strategy” houses are trying to build their HC capabilities.

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D1 - same question

P1 - could you please elaborate a bit on that McKinsey thing?

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