Amitai Givertz’s Recruitomatic Blog

This post is the first in a series for the Blog Swap. Here, Claudia Faust who is a founding partner at ImprovedExperience.com, takes a view on “Possibility Recruiting”:

Don’t Leave Home Without It

“Did it work?  It doesn’t matter.  What matters is that the possibility exists that it could.”  Amitai Givertz

 “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears that this is true.”  James Branch Cabell

I love the idea of Possibility Recruiting because – well, let’s be honest here, I am a die-hard optimist.  This gets me into trouble occasionally (well, more often than that, since I’m being honest).  However, I still like being this way.  So, thinking of recruiting as exploring what is possible?  Works for me.

That’s the simple part.  It gets more complicated when I admit that Possibility and Optimism aren’t exactly the same thing.  Oh, they’re compatible, no doubt – but in a distant-cousin sort of way.  Possibility is potential; it is a concept that is not yet verified.  Optimism, on the other hand, is a general feeling that everything is going to turn out just fine.  When taken to an extreme, Optimism beats a path to the doorway of Complete Denial.  You know, that place where natural laws (like gravity and physics) don’t apply to you.

It is also easy to confuse possibility and creativity – again compatible, but different.  Creativity is the ability to bring something new into existence.  Guess what happens when that goes into overdrive?  We’ve all been there: Utter Chaos.

It seems like a little balance might be good.  Optimism and creativity are balanced when you add a sense of purpose and persistence in measuring the outcome.  You see a goal, you try something, you measure how well it worked, and then you try again.  Now you’re talking Possibility Recruiting.  And what’s the point?  Why, to innovate of course. 

Innovation is the breakfast of champions in business, a primary driver of competitive advantage.  But that’s not all you get with Possibility Recruiting; you also get great experience (aka, the Art of Figuring Out for Yourself What Others Already Know Is True); and the ability to measure your efforts (aka, the Art of Communicating to the Business You Serve).  What more could you ask?

Possibility Recruiting.  Don’t leave home without it.

© Copyright 2006 Claudia Faust.

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