Savvy WINS out over smart every time in recruiting and HR

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Morning!

Welcome back to my blog, I hope your day has been treating you most spiffy-like indeed!  Over here in RISEland, life is quite joyous – school starts tomorrow (read: paradise envelops my household), I not only survived but thrived during adult karate practice and sparring last night, and managed to (get this!) bash out 300 pushups so far today. 

My goal is to complete 50 each hour!  I’ve found that by breaking them down into nice adorable-sized chunks like that, achieving desires is far far easier than if I tried flinging myself to the point of exhaustion.

But I digress. 

This morning, I came across the following hysterically funny comic you see on this post.  PLEASE….do yourself a favor and click on the image to see the punch line!  And then return here to enjoy:

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Isn’t that the most brilliant insight you’ve seen this week?????

I mean seriously!!!  How many times have you seen book-smart recruiters and managers and HR folk etc. have their rear deftly handed to them by the not-quite-as-brilliant-but-’way-more-savvy fellow employee?

Hmmmm?

I’ll tell you my input – back when I was a wee lass (this was when "java" meant "coffee" of course) I saw ALOT of it!

Brilliant, book-smart nerds would always spend their time flexing their mental muscles while other individuals saw opportunities to, well, take stark raving advantage of their self-adoration and manipulate the involved management to their own personal ends.

Which brings me to the following point.

Let me ask you:

When it comes to forging relationships within your recruiting or HR company, what kind of colleague are you?

Are you the:

• "I’m God’s Gift to Whatever It Is You’re Talking About" person, the one who always tries to proactively demonstrate to others how their intelligence level is only slightly below fossilized clams?
• "I’ve Been Here Longer Than You So I’m Smarter So There!" person, the one who never opens an earlobe to an idea of which you yourself did NOT think?
• "Today’s Day ends in the letter "Y" So I Deserve The Best Resumes" person, the one who suffers from extreme angst whenever someone ELSE receives praise?
• "I Have A Spare Minute, Who Can I Sabotage Today?" person, the one from whom Prince Machiavelli could learn?
• "I Graduated from M.I.T. with 28 Degrees so You WILL Listen to Me" person, the one with 9.4 metric tons of book-learning and approximately 3 minutes of real-life recruiting experience?
• "Must Go Down With the Ship" person, the one who clutches onto political connections even when said political employees FINALLY get kicked out the door, leaving you helplessly vulnerable to charges of incompetence that even a figure-8 skating moose would never approach?

Well?  What kind of person ARE you?  And if you’re one of the above (my condolences, truly), have you ever asked yourself:

Self, why do I enjoy being such an idjut?

Seriously!  Recruiting is a contact sport….not only with your candidates and clients, but with your colleagues as well.  Treat your colleagues with respect and decency, and you’ll receive that back a thousand-fold!  Heck, there are folks who helped me out over 10 years ago that, to this day….should they ask for any help from me, I drop what I’m doing and assist to the best of my abilities.

Want some resources for working in dealing with office idjuts?  Check out:

• Office Conflict Resolution: 11 Communication Tips for a Healthy Workplace
• Bad Bosses & Office Jerks
• BusinessWeek Issue on Trouble at the Office
• Coping with Jerks at Work
• Dealing With Difficult People At Work
• Help I’m surrounded by Jerks!
• Just Another Difficult Colleague?
• My colleagues disagree with everything I say or do

 Remember, we’re all fellow travelers in this thing called Life…and being able to successfully deal with your recruiting colleagues as well as your candidates and clients will go a long way towards not only increasing your bottom line…but also decreasing your stress.

And that, of course, is a Very Good Thing Indeed. 

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

ps – speaking about conflict resolution:

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