Human resource professionals strongly believe that resorting and human resource planning could be the two most significant business strategies in this millennium.

Organizations are grappling to address the rising skill demands imposed by knowledge work and the increasing shortages of skilled talent worldwide. Human resource planning could have a major impact on business results when used as a mean to find, place and replace talent and help employees learn more to keep up with new demands.

Competencies can play a significant role in improving the business results of an organization. Organizations can use competencies to take a balanced and systematic approach to identifying their strengths and the skills needed to close critical gaps.

The Industries of Pakistan need systematic study. They embody the complexity of forces that drive high technology industries: globalization, international trade, basic research, manufacturing-technology interface, regulation, public policy, markets and finance. The organizations face stunning managerial challenges: they must rapidly develop new technology, infuse that technology into efficient manufacturing processes that make defect-free outputs at low cost and manage workforces of wide cultural range around the globe.

We have never thought about the youth who are with no work and no program. We owe an answer to them. This is a burning problem before us and we have no answer for our future generation. Thus educating the new generation is essential to any society.

The children grow up to be the leaders of tomorrow and the foundation they get through their childhood and education will be with them for the rest of their lives. Besides this necessary technical/functional competence, human resource professionals need to have excellent diagnostic skills, an ability to listen, understanding of the internal and external business conditions, influencing skills, understanding of human behavior, objectivity, ability to understand corporate culture and a flexible style. Honestly, human resource professionals have the unenviable task of balancing the individual needs of the employee with the business needs of the organization while trying to minimize cost and increase productivity.

Times are changing now. Human potential and the need for conscious attempts to develop it are more readily acknowledged today than ever before in many parts of the world. The creation of a ministry for HRD by the Government of Pakistan is a good step towards testimony to this awareness and concern at the national level. Efforts are afoot at various quarters in the country today to devise and implement methods of developing human resources.