Monday, February 12, 2018

Look for the passion and find the potential....


“One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.” Helen Keller

A food and beverage server made an appointment with me as I was putting together an HR team: she’d put herself through college and wanted advice on how best to use her new sociology degree. While realizing there weren’t many jobs that paid as well as the one she had, she wanted to do more with her life and career: she was interested in HR and I thought the combination of her work experience and degree made her uniquely qualified to connect with employees. She took a job as an employee relations counselor and went on to become a VP of HR, all the while blending her knowledge of what it was like to work a shift with a passion to promote fairness and respect in the workplace. If you have hiring responsibilities, look for candidates with the passion to soar to newer and greater heights.  They’re the ones who’ll become the leaders of tomorrow.


Helen Adams Keller (1880 –1968): American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

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