Yesterday I interviewed a candidate who blew me away. On paper, he wasn’t the ideal candidate as he didn’t have the specific experience we were looking for. In fact, on many occasions his application would have been cast to one side, lost amongst the pile of candidates who met the selection criteria more closely. But […]
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“I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.” In her bestselling memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware shares her patients’ deepest regrets so that others may learn from their mistakes and benefit from their clarity and wisdom. Of course, there are many reasons why people shy away from
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During an interview for a senior HR position, I was asked to rate my Excel skills. Where I often used spreadsheets and functions in my previous roles, I considered my skills to be excellent. It turned out that I was wrong. Since I had not used Excel to its full potential, I was unaware of
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After he was fired from Apple in 1985 – following a failed attempt to gain control over the company – Steve Jobs was devastated. After all, he had co-founded the business seven years earlier and had nurtured it from the ground up. With the advantage of hindsight, Jobs pointed out: “I didn’t see it then,
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