Comments on: You’d Be Mad http://recruiteruncensored.com/?p=973 The Candid Ramblings Of A Professional Recruiter Who Has Seen It All - Copyright 2010 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lisa http://recruiteruncensored.com/?p=973&cpage=1#comment-448 Mon, 23 May 2011 20:04:17 +0000 http://recruiteruncensored.com/?p=973#comment-448 Thanks for the link, Scot. Anger is indeed unproductive and chips away at one’s sense of worth. It’s crucial for job seekers to get a firm handle on any anger that might be compromising their search. That said, being angry and getting mad at yourself from time to time is different in my book. Sometimes we need to get mad at ourselves to act. I was mad when I discovered I’d allowed myself to work well below my actual street value for years. I was young and dumb. I didn’t rail at my employer, I set off to do better on my own and promised myself it wouldn’t happen again. So often people focus on how others are standing in their way or on how much easier ‘they’ have it and never take the necessary time to challenge themselves to do better. Job seekers frequently tell me how they are missing out on jobs because employers want the perfect person. In all of my years of recruiting, I have rarely seen companies hire “perfect.” Just as anger is destructive to one’s sense of worth, so is the belief there is a hidden pocket of “perfect” people beating you out every step of the way. I think if people knew the reality of who they were losing out to more often they’d be shocked and, yes, mad. If channeled appropriately, getting mad might be the best thing that could happen to their search.

]]> By: Scot Richards http://recruiteruncensored.com/?p=973&cpage=1#comment-447 Mon, 23 May 2011 19:46:17 +0000 http://recruiteruncensored.com/?p=973#comment-447 When the scenario plays out as you described, I do two things:
1. Attempt to contact the interviewer to see what or how I might have presented better.
2. Turn to this You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBZDwf9dok&feature=related <<>> Actually I prefer the 5:30 second version as to the 1:45 in the link.

Either way, anger is so very unproductive and down right destructive to one’s sense of worth.

@Scot_R

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