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EXPONENTIALLY EXPAND YOUR RECRUITING POOL
Our focus now moves to acquiring talent, focusing here on recruiting engaged employees and in the next chapter on selecting them. Let’s start by sharpening our vision to better see the type of employees we will hire.
The scholarly work of Yale professor Amy Wrzesniewski describes our targeted employees as those who see work as a “calling.” Consider these carefully worded differences:
People with jobs see work as a necessity of life, they work for pay, they would switch jobs if given the chance to earn more money, they can’t wait to retire, and they would not consider their friends or children to follow in their footsteps.
People who see their work as a career . . . see themselves following a trajectory ...
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