Name: 【TED】Regina Hartley: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume (Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume | Regina Hartley)
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Your company launches a search for an open position.

Basic passive voice

and the qualified candidates are identified.

Person A: Ivy League, 4.0, flawless resume,

Person B: state school, fair amount of job hopping,

and odd jobs like cashier and singing waitress.

My colleagues and I created very official terms

to describe two distinct categories of candidates.

the one who clearly had advantages and was destined for success.

the one who had to fight against tremendous odds

You just heard a human resources director refer to people

which is not exactly politically correct and sounds a bit judgmental.

But before my human resources certification gets revoked --

And over the years, I've learned something about people

whose experiences read like a patchwork quilt,

that makes me stop and fully consider them

inconsistency, lack of focus, unpredictability.

Or it may signal a committed struggle against obstacles.

At the very least, the Scrapper deserves an interview.

I don't hold anything against the Silver Spoon;

getting into and graduating from an elite university

But if your whole life has been engineered toward success,

One person I hired felt that because he attended an elite university,

there were certain assignments that were beneath him,

like temporarily doing manual labor to better understand an operation.

what happens when your whole life is destined for failure

I want to urge you to interview the Scrapper.

I know a lot about this because I am a Scrapper.

my father was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,

and he couldn't hold a job in spite of his brilliance.

I'm the fourth of five children raised by a single mother

in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine,

and for most of my childhood, we didn't even have a telephone.

to understand the relationship between business success and Scrappers,

because my life could easily have turned out very differently.

and read profiles of high-powered leaders,

Many of them had experienced early hardships,

to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence.

The conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress,

and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction.

But during studies of dysfunction, data revealed an unexpected insight:

that even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation.

A remarkable and counterintuitive phenomenon has been discovered,

which scientists call Post Traumatic Growth.

In one study designed to measure the effects of adversity

who experienced the most severe and extreme conditions,

fully one-third grew up to lead healthy, successful and productive lives.

In spite of everything and against tremendous odds, they succeeded.

This guy's parents give him up for adoption.

In a study of the world's most highly successful entrepreneurs,

it turns out a disproportionate number have dyslexia.

35 percent of the entrepreneurs studied had dyslexia.

What's remarkable -- among those entrepreneurs

as a desirable difficulty which provided them an advantage

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【TED】Regina Hartley: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume (Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume | Regina Hartley)

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