The Professionals Trifector - Emotional / Disruptive / Constructive

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Passion, knowledge, desire and ability are key components for any good professional. Emotion can be disruptive yet constructive in the eyes, mind and opinion of others who do not have the same level or degree of passion for the profession.


I have used the Urban spelling of 'Trifector' rather than the conventional spelling Trifecta 

[definition - "a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first three   finishers inexact order"] - mind you for recruiting I wonder if the later would be more appropriate?

The ramblings below are aimed at HR/Hiring Managers, ATS developers/programmers/analysts, Recruiters, Job Seekers (passive or active), Business decision makers - If you allow the status quo of today to frame the actions of tomorrow you are setting yourself for a fall - I can think of several famous Canadian Technology companies who prove this point.  

Job Seekers are at the forefront of change and are often the Change Agents, through the application of Emotional Intelligence by considering Disruptive Influences and driving Constructive Change, in present and future activities of talent engagement and interaction.  Shouldn't HR/Recruitment Professionals be taking the reins to ensure they lead in the race and win the Triple Crown [Engagement, Interaction and Selection] ?

EMOTIONAL Intelligence (EI) - we have all encountered the professional who uses their educational or experiential knowledge or position within the organization [Group] to secure the outcome they require/desire by applying emotional driven arguments, with the outcome that the recipients of the argument allow the emotional pressure to overcome realistic objections [it used to be called emotional blackmail] - EI is by definition a trait those involved in recruiting [and job seekers to a certain extent] need to resist as the controlling actions associated with it.

DISRUPTIVE Influence (DI) - this is delivered by the person who is going to change the world [in their own mind at least].  They can use EI to disrupt and influence the outcome.  For businesses and those involved in influencing the strategic and operational effectiveness, have viewed Social Media / Social Recruitment as a DI, today's market place and used EI as the tool to resist change, the professionals who are exponents of SoMe/SoRec need to step up and use their EI to deliver effective DI.  Businesses and certain departments who are advising/guiding the business are basically resistance to...

CONSTRUCTIVE Change (CC) - is in every professionals life and businesses operations. The ability to keep up to-date with best practices and future developments in your professional field does not make you a Change Agent, just a professional who is capable of treading water. CC comes about from considering the numerous DI activities, applying EI to each one and then become the driving force behind CC as the Change Agent for the profession/business...


Question to ponder - If Infographics are being used increasingly, when will businesses permit a visual graphics of an individuals career [replace CV or resume] to be considered and processed by their ATS?  Just asking!!!

Do You apply Reciprocity to your Social Media activities?

Practice what you preach!  That is an old saying from my youth...And at a speaking engagement I had to  practice what I had just preached...

My presentation was to a group of local Job Seekers, Facilitators and Job Developers and 4 other excellent speakers - the title of the event was #UnJobsearchKW.   Being the last speaker, it was my task to pump the attendees up and provide them with some insight to what social media tools recruiters use in finding candidates.

After all the presentations were completed, an open forum took place, where each of the speakers availed themselves to the audience to answer questions more specific to the attendees needs...

One gentleman made a beeline for me and introduced himself as someone who had been trying to 'attract my attention' through various social media and traditional outlets, and sought my help with his job search.  Within a few seconds I recognized 'him' from his previous attempts to connect and asked why he had not returned my messages I had left for him previously (he had some excellent and in demand skills and experience).  He said "he only talked to people in person as he found that he had greater success that way".  He did say how much he enjoyed the shared information I put out on the various sites and that my presentation was very good, especially one particular slide:

So why did he 'only talk to people in person'?  Simple really - he has a severe hearing impairment and even with modern technology has found people on the phone mis-hears him or he mis-interprets what they say. One of the features I suggested he utilize is video calling [Skype or Google Hangout] either of these would all him to see and be seen by the interviewer.

So what does this have to do with 'Reciprocity'?  Not only had he seen information that had been shared by myself and others - to his benefit - but he had also heard the words and deeds put into action at the presentation and then shared his experience [challenges].  Reciprocity is 2-way, everyone must share knowledge, experience, views, opinions, thoughts, etc... with the wider world - you will never know who might 'see it' - but someone will.

May 2014 prove to be more reciprocal than 2013 - John

Top Social Media Tools to use [carefully] in a Job Search!

Using the list of reasons to use Social Media provided by Lilach Bullock in her blog on Social-Able of Top 10 Reasons to use Social Media I thought it would be a good starting point for job seekers or career transition people; so, from Lilach’s reason list we have:

Reason To Use Social Media

1. Build relationships
2. Network with like-minded people
3. Drive traffic to our website(s)
4. Sell our service/products
5. Show our expertise
6. Get support & motivation
7. Organise & promote events
8. Integrate with other websites
9. An alternative to a website
10. Monitor your brand awareness

Some of the Tools to utilize to support the ‘Reason’

1)      LinkedIn, Google+, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, Gist, Blog, Vizualize.Me, 

Slideshare, Box.Net, BranchOut, Hootsuite, Bit.ly, goo.gl, Mirror.Me, BeKnown

2)      LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Quora, BeKnown, Gist, Plaxo, Ning, Xing, RSS, 

Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Bit.ly, goo.gl

3)      About.Me, Skillpages, Twitter, RSS, Prezi, Tumblr

4)      LinkedIn, About. Me, Facebook, Twitter, Indeed, Social-Hire, Wordle, Tumblr, Bit.ly, 

Goo.gl

5)      LinkedIn (Groups, Answers), Google+, 

Blog. Slideshare, Skillpages, Talent.Me, 

Quora, Prezi, Tumblr, Mirror.Me

6)      Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Quora, 

Blog

7)      Eventbrite, LinkedIn, Facebook, 

Google+, Plancast, Twitter, Box.Net, Bit.ly, 

goo.gl

8)      Google+, Twitter, Box Net, RSS, Dropbox, Box.Net, Slideshare

9)      Blog, Google, About.Me, Tumblr

10)    Google Alerts, iGoogle, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck

The list is by no means complete, new and/or improved ones are appearing.  If you know of others and would like to share them – with your thoughts – please do.