I’m accustomed to handling clients who are at a crossroads in their lives and are looking for a change – after all, I’m a career coach. So this usually involves guiding clients through some pretty heavy soul-searching to help them find the sort of truly fulfilling work that we all deserve.
Imagine you’re hiring for a senior sales position and as part of your hiring process, you have candidates take a self-report assessment to get a better feel for their sales competencies and people skills. You have the assessment results for two candidates in front of you: one candidate has many strengths that are important to the role, but they also have some weaknesses that should be considered. The second candidate has scored off the charts on every scale measured, they seem almost too good to be true.
Who’s the stronger candidate? Who’s telling the truth?
Even though self-awareness – knowing who we are and how we’re seen – is important for job performance, career success, and leadership effectiveness, it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. In a Harvard Business Review study, it was discovered that although 95% of people think they’re self-aware, only 10 to 15% actually are.
As most of us are in lockdown at home, we are left to wonder what a post-coronavirus-world might look like. There’s a lot unknown about how the world will transform after we get the novel coronavirus under control, but it is extremely unlikely that things will just go back to exactly the way they were before. Our workplaces are likely to change, and with it, the skills companies will require. Here are 8 job skills that are likely to be in high demand in a post-coronavirus world. [Read more…]
As I sit down to write this story on how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool can help us deal with stress during the interview process, I can’t help but feel a bit stressed myself.
I need to get ready for a workshop later this week. Each time I’ve attempted to sit down and prepare this morning, my brain has filled up with a litany of other things to which I need to attend. My plate is plenty full, and yet I keep adding more portions to it.
