In this post I would like to invite you to spend ten minutes watching the following video:
I saw it for the first time several years ago, when I started training in the HR area, however, to this day I still remember it when I do personnel selection. Regina Hartley, vice president of the global HR area of the well-known company UPS, in this TED talk classifies candidates who are looking for employment into two categories: the “silver spoons” and the “fighters”. Just as she says: the first is the one who had all the advantages and was destined for success. The second, however, is the one who had to fight against all odds to reach the same point.
When you watch the video, you will immediately feel identified with one of them. Neither category is better or worse., but as a future, or already a human resources professional, it will surely awaken in you a curiosity to meet certain candidates that perhaps, at first glance, after reading their resume, you would have ruled out for having a lot of turnover, or taking too long to finish their training, and other circumstances that make a candidate, at first glance, not ideal to occupy a certain position.
The environment in which we live forces us to adapt more quickly
From a business point of view, more and more we live in the famous VUCA environment, (or VICA, if we read the acronym in Spanish). This is Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous, and far from stabilizing, as the years go by these concepts intensify and better represent the workplace.
For a company to adapt to this environment, It is essential that the employees who make it up have, or can develop, skills that, in the performance of their functions, this adaptability materializes. Only in this way will the company be able to survive all the changes that are required of it and be the best among its competitors.
The role of Human Resources is fundamental in this adaptation. It is very important that the area promotes actions aimed at developing these skills of workers, and it is also essential that the selection of candidates is made taking the needs of the company as a starting point. It is at this point where I once again focus on Regina Hartley's inspiring video.
From EIP, We recommend that you go beyond the perfect resume and try to get to know who is behind it, because perhaps we are simply discarding click to a Steve Jobs, who could turn the company around 180 degrees.
