Have you read Seth Gordon’s book- Linchpin? It’s a must read. http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/

There was much that got my attention.

I like to think what makes my business and me different is ME!!  Off course duh!! Any business is about you and me!!

And yet much around us wants us to conform and look the same, because pieces of paper, like a resume, pretty much makes us that way!! Indeed much of business wants to frame us in mental models, stereotypes, or fit for hire etc. etc.

Our gifts are all different we are not the same.  Stop framing us!!!

So when Godin suggests nay “demands us all to be “remarkable” he makes some pretty compelling proposals.

Being remarkable means we have to stay with being different and using that emotional talent within us to be courageous and bring out the artist in each of us!!! We all have a picture of who we are and what we can really do.

Get rid of the resume – they are all “me too” and anyway recruiters will only use their clever recruitment algorithms to “weed you out.” Without even talking to you! Find a better way that expresses your gifts!

Resumes determine how clever you are in using the right words and catch phrases. They do not explain your “real living gifts and inner talents.”

Who needs a recruiter when all they do is go down their checklist – “looking for check offs” rather then difference.

Look for a company/recruiter who does not put you through a long-winded web based application process. Just think of the slogan “We actually talk to the people who want to be part of our team! “

This was a response from a recruiter that someone I know received! They had not even talked to each other! Oh my goodness what kind of organization wants to be known for this!

" I do not see a fit between your entrepreneurial, outside the box, innovative thinking and our current senior leadership."

Remember the book “Who moved my cheese?”

http://www.whomovedmycheese.com/BooksBySpencerJohnson.html

Remember the wedge of cheese, “What would you do if you were not scared?”

Well I am here to tell you applicants are becoming indifferent with recruiters!!!! They are at your mercy and you haven’t taken the time to know them. Is that what it is all about?  Is this the people business we are in?

We expect world-class talent to work with ordinary and routine and outdated processes. Yuk!!

Scaring applicants will undoubtedly mean that the best talent know better and will go else where - they do not need that kind of B.S.

Go on be different; If that is who you really are, then it only makes sense that you work with those organizations and with people who really inspire you and whom you inspire.

The future demands difference and the future is now! Stop writing and start talking to each other.

That future also demands developing new ways of working the talent!

Just saying!