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egative stereotypes about HR pros—that they’re not workers’ friends, and only exist to protect the company—seem to tran
scend cultures.Those assumptions were present in India, where Siya Thakkar grew up and attended university studying psychology. While Thakkar was interested in pursuing industrial organizational psychology and studying human behavior in the workplace, she still didn’t want to go into HR. “I remember saying it to my classmates and my professors: ‘No, I don’t think HR is for me. This is not something that I
want to do,’” she recalled.It wasn’t until she was studying for her master’s degree in IO psychology at