Tips on How You Can Find Impossible Dream Candidates - Your Career Intel

Tips on How You Can Find Impossible Dream Candidates - Your Career IntelSearching for the perfect hire can be a bit like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack, especially if your company has a very specific or unique set of job requirements. As a Senior Partner and hospitality veteran, Im no stranger to challenging job searches. Recently, a company approached me for help filling a highly specific stelle. Not only did they have a very clear idea of their required hire, but their commitment to satisfying every job requirement meant that near-perfect candidates had to be ruled out making for an extremely challenging search process.The company, which was opening a new branch of a popular global eatery, needed a candidate with multi-outlet experience including retail, fine dining, casual dining and private events a fairly standard request for high-end eateries. Heres where things became more challenging the candidate also needed a genuine passion for all things Italian, including th e countrys culture, food, wine and hospitality, and had to be either fluent in Italian or a native-born Italian.Challenging? Absolutely. Impossible? Not in the least. Heres how I fulfilled the companys impossible wish list and how specialized recruiters like myself can help your company do the same.1. Listen. No hiring manager wants to be presented with a laundry list of almost acceptable candidates I need to deliver that one candidate who is the right fit for my clients needs. To do so, I start by asking the client detailed questions about the position and corporate culture. For my recent client, this consultative approach helped me fully understand the companys reasoning for their job requirements, enabling me to refine my search process and zero in on a candidate with the right experience, passion, and outlook.2. Identify. As a specialized executive recruiter and industry veteran, I work with a large passive candidate network. This includes top professionals who are not actively looking for a new position, so they wont be found on job boards or LinkedIn hiring searches. However, should these passive candidates be contacted in regards to a new position, they might be willing to consider an interview as long as theyre approached correctly.3. Approach. Imagine receiving a call from a recruiter out of the blue how would you respond? Part of your response hinges on whether you take the recruiter seriously. Does the recruiter speak the industry lingo and converse intelligently about industry trends? Candidates call me back even if they never work with recruiters because they trust my professional background. By staying at the forefront of industry developments, I know how to present career opportunities in a way that gets candidates curious and eager to learn more.4. Vet. Vetting candidates is an exhaustive process that goes beyond simply verifying credentials. I take the time to understand a candidates thought processes, business approach and professional goals. I then assess whether this candidate will be the right fit for my client.Part of my responsibility to my clients is to look beyond their immediate needs. In this challenging search, for example, I came across a second candidate who wasnt quite ready for the top spot, but I knew could play an important supporting role. The client agreed and decided to bring that person on board, too.Is your company experiencing challenges sourcing that impossible hire? Share your experience in the comments below.

Why You Should Dress Well Even When Youre Unwell

Why You Should Dress Well Even When Youre Unwell For me, dressing well sometimes means putting on an ironed dress with jewelry and a favorite pair of heels. Other times it means putting on a well-fitted pair of jeans and plunging into the pile of casual sneakers that have somehow made their way into my closet. It usually means unchipped polish on my finger nails that matches my toes and brushed hair that I took the time to do. Sometimes it means makeup, and other times it doesnt. It always means, however, dressing for me and not for anyone else.Dressing well is subjective, and so theres no point in dressing for others I dress well even on days that I dont leave my apartment, consumed in work, because it makes me feel good. And when I feel good, I do good work.A gamut of research actually suggests that clothing that improves a womans confidence can actually benefit her mental and physical health, too. So we might all want to dress well even when were feeling unwell. Heres what it cou ld do for you.1. Your style innately affects your performance.Scientists call the phenomenon enclothed cognition, which is the effect of clothing on cognitive processes. Adam Hajo and Adam D. Galinsky, professors at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, explain in their research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology that enclothed cognition involves the co-occurrence of two independent factors the symbolic meaning of the clothes and the physical experience of wearing them. They asked subjects to perform tests while wearing a doctors lab coat, a painters coat and no coat, and found that the subjects sustained attention increased the most while wearing the doctors coats.This suggests that how you dress could affect how well you perform. If you associate those clothes with power and confidence, its going to have a huge impact, Galinsky told The Washington Post, noting that ones perception of power is subjective, so not all clothes will have the saatkorn effect on all people.2. Your style reflects your mood and vice versa.Your clothing choices can shape your mood. Professor Karen J. Pine, of the University of Hertfordshire writes in bookLikewise, the mood youre already in may shape your clothing choices. Pine also cheekily writes Women are mora sensitive to different moods than men and in their study, a womans mood was more likely to influence her choice of clothing. Perhaps that is why we women need to have more clothes, to match the multitude of moods to which we are subject? Or, if not, it seems a rather good excuse3. Your style can improve your overall health.A clothing line calledINGA Wellbeing creates fashion-conscious clothing for medical patients, and some of the pieces in the line even boast openings to accommodate medical devices like IVs, drains and monitors. The innovative garments intend to help patients regain their independence by empowering them to dress themselves, move about and socialize, which in tur n should promote a speedier recovery. What we wear during medical treatment has a profound effect on how much we want to move around, or engage with friends, loved ones and even our careers, the website reads. This in turn has a significant impact on our mental and physical wellbeing.A nurse-led campaign endPJparalysis founded by Professor Brian Dolan found supporting data that patients wearing normal day clothes in the hospital spent 0.75 fewer days in the hospital than patients who wore gowns or traditional pajamas. This suggests that, if youre feeling unwell, dressing well might empower you to get up andget going throughout your day, and be a more productive worker this affect on your mental health could more quickly improve your physical health, as it did with the aforementioned patients studied.--AnnaMarie Houlis is a multimedia journalist and an adventure aficionado with a keen cultural curiosity and an affinity for solotravel. Shes an editor by day and a travel blogger at He rReport.org by night.