Career Jump-Start met on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at First United Methodist Church of Richardson, Texas. About 20 people were present for Sol Cartier’s program titled “Influencing the Influencer.”
It appears that people stay away from Career Jump-Start when they know there will be a workshop. The workshops can be difficult; however, they help us learn in a safe environment. So, they are a good thing. My band director in seventh grade told us to make a sound with our musical instruments emphasizing that otherwise he has no way of knowing how to help us learn how to play the instrument. He has to hear the sound that we make with our musical instrument to know what to tell us to do. Practice sessions in the band room were where we needed to make and learn from our mistakes not during performances. Career Jump-Start workshops are a place where we can "make a sound" and receive help that improves that "sound" so that we provide outstanding performances in interviews. I blew a slide trombone from 7th through 12th grade. I decided that I needed more study time and less music time in college; therefore, I decided not to participate in band or orchestra in college.
Sol Cartier helped us understand how behaviors vary from person to person and how behaviors change as time goes by. Some people are logic driven while other people are rapport driven. See figure 1. Sol provided the mnemonic “lefty logic right rapport.” Human resources people primarily evaluate how people fit the culture and secondarily apply logic to evaluate people.
While being logic or rapport driven, people are also either extrinsic or intrinsic. An extrinsic person is very outgoing making a point to shake everybody’s hand. An intrinsic person is very inward finding a corner with six or eight friends and ignoring the rest of the world. An extrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. Likewise, an intrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. See figure 2.
Sol had B+ marked on his arm to remind him to be positive.
It is possible to act outside of your stable behavior. It is not easy to shift like this. It requires a conscious effort. See figure 3 for an illustration of how behavior changes as time goes by during an interview. In this example, behavior is rapport driven as the interview begins. Behavior becomes logic driven as the interview progresses. Behavior changes back and forth between rapport and logic as the interview progresses.
An interviewer answers the question “If I am a good fit for this job, do you have any concerns about how I would fit?” based on whether they are logic or rapport driven. A logic driven person should provide a meaningful answer to this question. A rapport driven person will “sugar coat” their answer.
Have a 90-day plan for what you will do if hired.
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 will be a celebration of the seventh anniversary of Career Jump-Start. This event will be upstairs in room 230A. So, park in the lot near Custer Road and enter the education building near the middle of the building. The room is on the second floor at the west end of the hallway.
Career Jump-Start usually meets on Tuesday evenings at First United Methodist Church, 503 North Central Expressway, Richardson, Texas 75080. Official information about this group is available at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/ and http://www.fumcr.com/pages/caring_career_support.
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It appears that people stay away from Career Jump-Start when they know there will be a workshop. The workshops can be difficult; however, they help us learn in a safe environment. So, they are a good thing. My band director in seventh grade told us to make a sound with our musical instruments emphasizing that otherwise he has no way of knowing how to help us learn how to play the instrument. He has to hear the sound that we make with our musical instrument to know what to tell us to do. Practice sessions in the band room were where we needed to make and learn from our mistakes not during performances. Career Jump-Start workshops are a place where we can "make a sound" and receive help that improves that "sound" so that we provide outstanding performances in interviews. I blew a slide trombone from 7th through 12th grade. I decided that I needed more study time and less music time in college; therefore, I decided not to participate in band or orchestra in college.
Sol Cartier helped us understand how behaviors vary from person to person and how behaviors change as time goes by. Some people are logic driven while other people are rapport driven. See figure 1. Sol provided the mnemonic “lefty logic right rapport.” Human resources people primarily evaluate how people fit the culture and secondarily apply logic to evaluate people.
While being logic or rapport driven, people are also either extrinsic or intrinsic. An extrinsic person is very outgoing making a point to shake everybody’s hand. An intrinsic person is very inward finding a corner with six or eight friends and ignoring the rest of the world. An extrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. Likewise, an intrinsic person can be logic driven or rapport driven. See figure 2.
Sol had B+ marked on his arm to remind him to be positive.
It is possible to act outside of your stable behavior. It is not easy to shift like this. It requires a conscious effort. See figure 3 for an illustration of how behavior changes as time goes by during an interview. In this example, behavior is rapport driven as the interview begins. Behavior becomes logic driven as the interview progresses. Behavior changes back and forth between rapport and logic as the interview progresses.
An interviewer answers the question “If I am a good fit for this job, do you have any concerns about how I would fit?” based on whether they are logic or rapport driven. A logic driven person should provide a meaningful answer to this question. A rapport driven person will “sugar coat” their answer.
Have a 90-day plan for what you will do if hired.
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 will be a celebration of the seventh anniversary of Career Jump-Start. This event will be upstairs in room 230A. So, park in the lot near Custer Road and enter the education building near the middle of the building. The room is on the second floor at the west end of the hallway.
Career Jump-Start usually meets on Tuesday evenings at First United Methodist Church, 503 North Central Expressway, Richardson, Texas 75080. Official information about this group is available at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CJS-HPUMC/ and http://www.fumcr.com/pages/caring_career_support.
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