HR Professional Day 2024: Celebrating Human Resources

HR Professional Day 2024 happens on the 26th of September. Let's see what is HR Professional Day and what we can do to celebrate the profession.

HR Professional Day 2024: Celebrating Human Resources

HR Professional Day 2024 happens on the 26th of September. If you didn't know this date, you're probably wondering what happens during this day dedicated to celebrating HR Professionals? You're at the right place, we'll review what happens, what it means and how to celebrate HR professionals. Let's go!

When is HR Professional Day?

HR Professional Day 2024 is on September 26th 2024. It's on a Thursday this year.

What is HR Professional day?

HR Professional day is a day dedicated to celebrating the tremendous work done by Human Resources Professionals.

The goal is to raise awareness about the HR job as a whole.

It's also a great way to communicate about all the different roles HRs can have.

HR is a strategic role that became critical in every organization's success.

How to celebrate HR Professional day?

There are several ways you can celebrate HR Professional Day, here is a non-exhaustive list:

  1. Organise an HR breakfast/lunch
  2. Quizz your team on HR related responsibilities
  3. Spotlight someone in HR from the company or send public kudos to the whole HR team
  4. Leadership: Send Appreciation messages to HRs
  5. Remote Teams: Send a small physical gift in advance of the date to make sure they receive it on HR day.

Recognizing HRs can be done in many different ways, the important is to truly care and make a small gesture on the D-Day.

How HRs can celebrate HR Professional Day?

First, if you're an HR, let me congratulate you for your work and your contributions!

As an HR you can prepare a few things for this day:

  • Bring breakfast - You can prepare a breakfast where you inform people about the HR Professional Day and answer the questions they have about HR roles.
  • Have lunch with the HR team - It's a great day for taking your team out for a deserved lunch all together.
  • Write a small internal post for announcing the HR Day to the team telling them it's a good moment for them to come discuss with HRs or ask questions.
  • Keep an open door during the day, it's a great day to invite employees to have a casual coffee chat with the HR team.

What we do at BuddiesHR to celebrate HRs during HR Professional day?

At BuddiesHR we launched several initiatives to celebrate HR Professionals during HR Professional Day.

First, we raise awareness about HRs by sharing content on our Linkedin profiles (J.Y and Fabien)

Second, we display a banner and confettis on our website to communicate about the HR day with visitors.

Third, inside our apps we communicate about this special day and push people to send kudos to their HRs.

Let's celebrate Human Resources on September 26th 2024! 🥳