I find people for the positions my company needs filled; I post job ads online and in newspapers so people will know that we have jobs available; I interview people (initially for assessment, anyway) for these jobs; I told them what trainings they needed if they did not meet expectations, and to try again a few months down the line. I also helped the company put together our want ads for hiring. I even list down equipment, materials, and items that we needed for our new recruits. In short, I did quite a lot!
After telling my kid all of these, he then looks at me and says, “So mom, basically, you help. You help people find jobs, you help your company find people, and you help with getting things for work.” I stop looking through his math book, look at him, and think, as simplistic as his understanding may be of what I do, he got it. HR people help. We help people get a job in the company, we help the company get people for these jobs, and we help wherever we can in the organization. To put it in my son’s words, we help.