Students and interns are often asked to score well academically and build a strong CV to land big jobs or better positions at work. However, this is a very materialistic point of view. Building a good professional trajectory is far beyond this.
Here’s what a 35-year-old CEO has said.
What Did The CEO Say?
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kickstarter, a crowdsourcing platform based in New York, Everette Taylor, recently shared that he always looks for self-awareness in his employees. He strongly believes that workers who lack this important quality tend to be egoistic, prioritising their desires over the organisation and customers.
While people who do possess this characteristic, not only excel in their professional work but also push the company to do better. According to Taylor, self-awareness is the source of enhancing communication, productivity, collaboration, creativity, and cordial relationships.
“I try to keep my ego at the door. I’m wrong all the time. I have an incredible team that’s super smart and will put me in my place, and I love that,” he said to CNBC Make It, a news network that provides information and inspiration on money, business, and work.
Taylor says that he continuously pushes himself to further build self-awareness in him. He admits that holding the top spot in the company does not mean he makes no mistakes and can never be wrong.
He often questions his interviewees about their past mistakes and how they dealt with them. Their answer allows him to judge their ability to take accountability and believes that people who struggle with admitting their mistakes lack self-awareness.
“You can really tell,” he said. “The people that aren’t self-aware, they really struggle with this.”
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Do Other Recruiters Have The Same Requirement?
The personality of a job applicant plays a key role in determining whether they are suitable for the position or not. Self-awareness is one such personality trait that most recruiters prefer to see.
Former Vice President of Google, Claire Hughes Johnson, asks candidates how they think their peers and colleagues would describe them. With this technique, she can gauge their level of self-awareness, as well as their openness to constructive criticism and willingness to improve.
She also believes that the overuse of “I” indicates an absence of humility while that of “we” portrays the inability to take credit.
She wrote in ‘Make It’ 2023, “how their colleagues would describe them. If they only say good things, I probe what constructive feedback they’ve received.”
“Then I’ll say, ‘And what have you done to improve?’ to check their orientation towards learning and self-improvement, and to see whether they’ve taken that feedback to heart,” she added.
“You can have all the technical skills and charisma in the world, but if you’re completely oblivious of yourself, how you come across and interact in the world, it’s a lot harder to build strong relationships, interact with your boss and co-workers and deepen the friendships you need to truly succeed,” said Juliette Han, an instructor at Columbia Business School.
Research by author Tasha Eurich shows that 95% of people believe that they are self-aware, out of which only 10-15% genuinely are. Therefore, this is an important trait that is being demanded heavily by employers today, and thus, must be built by every candidate.
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Sources: The Economic Times, CNBC, NDTV
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