“An effective HR professional would probably be a mature person, one who has lived and who has been "knocked about" by life.”

Because if you have not experienced life, how can you share that experience with people?
Quoted in Hong Kong's Career Times newspaper (March 29th 2002) http://cthr.ctgoodjobs.hk/article/show_article.aspx/1174-10369-a-five-year-challenge-for-mainland-management-systems
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