Head hunting lesson from Human Resource Director of UPS (P2)

Head hunting specialist Regina Hartley is trying to give recruiters an advice on how to choose the best candidate between 2 types The Silver Spoon and The Scrapper. The Silver Spoon has obvious advantages, but how about The Scrapper? Should we give them a chance?

Head hunting lesson from Human Resource Director of UPS (P2)

Advantages of The Scrapper

I understand about this issue because I was The Scrapper long before current head hunting specialist. Before I was born, my father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and he can not find a job even though he was an extremely intelligent person. I was the fourth of the five children being raised by a single mother in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. We never owned a house, a car, a washing machine. In most time of my childhood, we still do not have a desk phone.

I understand very well the relationship between the business success and the The Scrapper, because my life could easily change in different direction. When I meet successful entrepreneurs and read profiles of powerful leaders, I realized a few similarities between them. Many of them have been through certain life challenges, such as poverty, abandonment, death of their parents when they were little, difficulties in learning, alcoholism, and abusement.

A common thought is that the difficulties will lead to burnout, and there are a lot of examples for the dysfunction. However, in the study of dysfunction, the collected data shows a profound ability to recognize that even the worst situations can bring growth and change in a positive direction . Notably, a phenomenon that goes against the predictions have been discovered, and scientists call it “post-traumatic growth”.

In a study of the effects of the hardship to children, 1/3 of the 698 children who had the most pitiful situation grew up and build successful lives in bouth health and career. Despite all the difficulties and challenges, they have succeeded! What do you think now head hunting speacilists and recruiters?

Take a look at a profile: this guy’s parents abandoned him at an orphanage, he has not finished college, has done many different jobs, stayed in India for a year, dyslexic. Being a head hunting specialist, do you want to hire this guy? His name is Steve Jobs.

A study of the most successful entrepreneurs shows that a number of those people get through dyslexia. In the USA, 35% of businessmen cope with the disease. It is worth noting that the entrepreneurs have experienced “post-traumatic growth” is now considered their difficulties as “desirable difficulties”, because it gives them an advantage to become a good listener and have a higher level of attention to the smallest details. They are not afraid to be themselves, despite the “bad luck” that they have faced. They know that they are themselves because of those “bad lucks”. They accept the difficulties, concern them as the “keys” to make their personalities, and they understand that without the experience, they have been unable to obtain the strength needed to become successful.