Top Guide Posts for this week discuss Pretenders and Shaving!

Oh Yes, I'm The Great Pretender

While it is the Halloween Season and pretending you are something you are not is common, it is not ok to do so during the interview process.

For employers, this means being true to your employment brand as it is.

For example, if your current environment is one in which employees are really expected to be on site Monday through Friday, don't say that you have a flexible work environment. Or at least detail what the flexibility is.

Does it mean flexible hours?

Or is it something else?

For candidates, this means being honest about what your actual achievements have been and what exactly your contribution to those achievements was. Believe it or not, early in my recruiting career, a candidate actually tried to pass off something I had done at their current employer as their own accomplishment. Suffice it to say, when I confronted them on it, they blushed and tried to explain it away. It didn’t work and they were not presented to my client.

In either case, not representing yourself or your company honestly never works out.

Either the employer finds out that the new employee can’t do what they said they could.

Or the new employee finds out that what they were told in the interview process is not reality within the company.

Regardless, there will be a separation between the parties. Usually, with a considerable amount of animus. And let’s face facts, when that happens people will talk about it.

So, don’t be a great pretender. Be honest and be yourself on either side of the hiring process. You will be glad you did in the long run.

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Don’t learn how to shave on my face!

As the son of an old school barber, this phrase has particular relevance for me. I remember well the leather belt for sharpening the straightedge razor, the hot towel and the shaving cream dispenser. This simple act that many men perform for themselves everyday gets elevated to a high art form when performed by a master barber.

And suffice it to say, the results are dramatically different.

So, when a client of mine said “This role is so vital to our organization that we need a real pro with a track record of success in this area. In short, I don’t want them to learn to shave on my face!”, I knew exactly what they meant. There is simply too much risk in hiring an unproven person in critical roles.

Now more than ever businesses need the steady hands of proven professionals to mitigate risk, achieve their business objectives and build their future success.

They need talented, proven marketers, product managers and sales pros as well as other functional areas to get them through the current uncertainties and position them to have explosive growth as the economy recovers in 2025. A mis-hire during the best of times is horribly expensive. In this economy, like an unskilled barber, a mis-hire can literally cut deep into a company’s prospects.

In short: Don’t learn how to shave on my face!

Chris Gustanski – Founder and Lead Talent Guide

Chris is a classically trained marketer with over a decade of executive search experience. He moved into recruiting because he was someone that was frequently recruited and was tired of recruiters hounding him to consider roles they didn’t understand, and he wasn’t interested in pursuing. He was determined to disrupt Executive Search to deliver a better result and experience for companies and the commercial talent they need.?After over a decade seeing the dysfunction in executive search firms large and small, he formed Due North Executive Search in collaboration with his wife Amie.

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