Tertiary qualifications? Check ✅ Demonstrated experience? Check ✅ Skilled in a specific IT platform? Check ✅ But how can you screen for passion, flair and determination? The idea of recruiting for behavioral traits is rooted in Frank Parsons’s Trait and Factor Theory, developed in the early 20th century. Parsons, considered the founder of vocational guidance, […]
Last week, I met Carol at the Coles checkout. I asked her (while she was serving another customer) whether they sold cool bags. She did not respond – not because she was ignoring me – but she didn’t hear me. That was when I saw that she had a hearing aid (in fact a cochlear […]
When I look back on my career, I feel very lucky for the fabulous experiences that I have had, especially twelve years at a professional services firm. In this role, I worked late, partied hard, travelled and worked all over the world and learnt an incredible amount BUT I was single, young and carefree. I was […]
I was visiting McDonalds yesterday on the behalf a client and, as I was leaving with my host, the lift opened and a women entered – average height probably in her late thirties – my host exchanged the usual type of pleasantries with her, as you do in a lift, so I assumed that she […]