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To gauge that, experts recommend digging deeply into a candidate's work history. You need to take the time to do a detailed, job-by-job review.. Where did this person excel in the past? What specific achievements got recognized and rewarded? Why did she get promoted? Which job or jobs really gave him a chance to shine? This will show you pretty clearly what the candidate is passionate about.
Then you can assess whether her/his passion matches the job you're trying to fill. Someone with a phenomenal talent for wooing new clients, for example, may not be the right fit for a sales-manager position that will put him behind a desk managing other salespeople without ever meeting a customer. The better you understand both the job itself and the person you're considering for it, the more likely you are to get someone who can channel his or her passion in the right direction.
Ask candidates about some of the risks they have taken and how they turned out. Passion really comes down to confidence and courage, including a willingness to push back and take an unpopular position if you really believe in it. Debate with the candidate. Sometime during a conversation roll out an opinion or an idea that is way out of left field, just to see if the candidate is willing to argue - politely, of course, but with conviction.
Pay close attention to the questions asked by candidates. Passionate people will ask you a question and then, based on your answer to that one, ask you another one. They're following one idea to another idea with genuine spontaneous curiosity. That shows passion. Ask people what they are passionate about outside of work. Someone whose eyes light up when they talk about a sport or a charity or whatever it is they do in their spare time - that is someone who will probably be passionate on the job too. People don't switch their passion off when they walk into work in the morning. It carries over.
Passion isn't all that hard to spot - if you really try. Too many employers pay lip service to the idea of passion but in fact they want cookie-cutter thinking, which is why they end up with cookie-cutter hires. Hiring managers will opt for the 'safe' candidate rather than a more provocative one - and then they're disappointed a year later when the person hasn't stepped up and produced fantastic results.
By POST A RESUME (www.postaresume.co.in)
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