The Path Redefined by Lauren Maillian Bias

Author:Lauren Maillian Bias [Maillian Bias, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939529770
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.

Remember: It’s the person, not the degree or the resume, that gets hired. Having a polished skill set is important, but getting hired often comes down to your network, and it comes down to people wanting to work with people they know, like, and trust. When you’re going to spend almost one-third of your life with someone on the job, then you want that to be as enjoyable and painless as possible. So most times, people will choose a business partner or a company will hire an employee based on who he or she is and represents more than on a person’s resume or degree. Getting hired (and staying employed) comes down to your skills, experience, perspective, and your ability to execute and build value.

If you feel as though a candidate has the right basic qualities as an individual, you can teach that person the few job skills he or she lacks. You can’t teach a candidate to be a better person, however, or to be more committed or have more passion. You can’t teach a candidate to be more energetic or a multitasker who’s happy to step outside a comfort zone to take on new projects and tasks that aren’t explicitly outlined in a job description. These aren’t teachable skills. They’re learnable skills but not teachable skills. Someone can choose to learn them over time, but they’re rarely something that you can walk into a situation and just be taught.

Gen Y and Gen X employees yearn to be independent and to leave their regular jobs behind. This makes your job in retaining them that much more challenging. A recent survey found that 72 percent of Millennials in “regular” jobs want to be entirely independent, and 61 percent plan to be independent within two years. “Freedom” was the number one reason for wanting to leave their conventional careers behind and work for themselves. In addition, working wherever they like (92 percent), working whenever they like (87 percent), working on more interesting projects (69 percent), and traveling while working (50 percent preferred this to vacation time) were also strong motivators.8

To be totally honest, there are times when I really do think it’s important for me to be as unplugged as I possibly can be—especially when I’m on vacation with my family. I recently had the opportunity to push myself on this when I took a brief vacation trip to Morocco (and check another item off my bucket list). For this trip I decided to take the first baby step toward putting this idea of getting unplugged into practice by taking only my iPad along with me and leaving my laptop behind. If I couldn’t get it done on my iPad, then it would have to wait until I got back.

I survived, my business partners survived, and my clients survived. In fact, we all did fine. Plus, I actually was able to focus on seeing the wondrous sites of Marrakech and beyond instead of continually messing with my laptop. I knew I

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