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HR Professionals Building Human Capital Human Resource (HR) Professionals play a strategic role in organisations to attract, develop and retain talent for sustainable business growth and competitiveness. Increasingly, the dynamic business environment necessitates them to also facilitate change and transformation to build resilient and adaptive organisations. Strengthening our HR capabilities to keep up with the changing demands rests with both individual HR Professionals and employers alike. The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), together with its industry partners, has developed the Human Resource Workforce Skills Qualifications (HR WSQ) as a national HR competency framework for the continuing education and training of our local HR Professionals and People Managers. “HR practitioners need to innovate new practices to enable the organisation to extract maximum value from its human capital. This is important for all HR professionals in order to generate value for the organisation and ensure sustainability of the profession. The HR WSQ enables HR Professionals to be on par with, if not better than, our overseas counterparts.” Carmen Wee Vice President, Human Resources (Software Business) Invensys Operations Management 02