Hard to find: passionate co-workers
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 07:39 on March 11, 2010
Over the last couple of weeks we have been screening people to fill new job openings in our company.
The odd 168 resumes that ended up on our desk had one thing in common: they lacked passion!
When we meet (potential) customers or do presentations for various types of publics, we talk in a passionate way about how we feel the IT industry and even to a larger extent how HR is going to be impacted by cloud computing.
We try to convey our thoughts about the fact that we are in an age of transformation where the impact of aging in the Western world, ecology and globalization will have a severe impact on all of our lives and the way we work.
And we do that… in a passionate way.
We really get into a buzz when we start to explain how our services and tools like Google Apps, BPOS, Runmyprocess can benefit organizations facing these enormous challenges that lie ahead.
While we don’t want to compare ourselves with Barack Obama, but this Obama-like passion spreads as a positive wave over our audiences. People enjoy listening to, working with, doing business with others that are passionate about how to resolve their (business) problems.
But apparently our behavior is not that common, or for some to hard or next to impossible to achieve.
Does anyone have a recipe to find passionate young employees? Or has our education and tax system killed all hope for us?
