Balanced
Interviewing: Getting the Complete Picture
It is usually relatively easy to uncover a lot of information
about most people's past career successes. All that is required
is to sit and listen to candidates as they tell their story. In
Asia, candidates more often need some coaxing but most people
can provide good examples of accomplishments at past employers.
This is, of course, very useful and important information that
should be given great consideration.
That said, it is also important to learn about the misfortunes
and setbacks of candidates in order to gain a balanced view of
their backgrounds and capabilities.
It is not that past failures are bad. Most successful business
people feel strongly that experience with failure is essential
to the development of well-adjusted, adaptable leaders.
A person with more than 10 years of working experience who
claims to have never seriously blundered might not be a
risk-taker or mature in his or her career. More significant, the
candidate might be emotionally insecure about dealing with
failure.
Never having failed is an indicator of immaturity in
management careers.
Allowing
People to Open Up
The challenge is that people naturally don't want to talk about
their failures since they are worried about it being used
against them. Many people will only describe examples of minor
slip-ups they made. Others will turn the question around to make
it seem like it was actually a positive: "I worked so hard
that I burned myself out." Still others will put the blame on
someone else: "I trusted my people too much and they let me down."
It is essential for the interviewer to create an environment of
trust for the candidate so they will feel comfortable to speak
freely. Using some of the justifications in this article is
usually sufficient. As well, conducting interviews in social
settings like business club or upscale restaurants (including
lobbies in attractive hotels) often works better than typical
business offices.
Yes again,
Asia is Different
Given the exhilarating growth across the Asia region over the
past decade, young professionals showing promise have found
themselves promoted quickly to middle and senior management. It
is not uncommon for people to have achieved positions and
incomes that would have required another decade in
slower growing regions. In some industries, people still in
their late 20's find themselves managing 500 to 1,000 people.
The concern when hiring such managers is how stable and
effective will they be when growth inevitably slows and business
conditions become more normalized. It is important to understand
the adversity people have faced in the past in order to
determine whether they will be able to deal with it in the
future.
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Getting Ready For The
Deluge: Outsourcing in Philippines
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The
Economist Intelligence Unit of the Economist magazine
asked Chalre Associates' Chairman, Richard Mills,
to write a chapter about the Philippine outsourcing sector
in its annual Business Guide Book. The material
provides a Executive Briefing on the progress and major
issues facing this industry that is certainly one of most
significant growth stories in the world.
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Asia Pacific Mining
Conference 2007 - Report
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The 7th Asia Pacific Mining Conference put on by the Asean
Federation of Mining Associations was perhaps the largest
such event in the region. Richard Mills, Chairman of Chalre Associates
gave this report on what was said by the prominent mining
people who presented.
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State of BPO in Philippines: Dan Reyes Speaks
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Richard
Mills, Chairman of Chalre Associates,
interviewed Dan Reyes of Sitel for ComputerWorld (US) recently to get
his views on the state of the BPO industry in Philippines. Dan
presented US readers with compelling information to support his view
that Philippines is currently seen as the "Number 1" option by global
companies sending BPO work to offshore destinations.
Dan Reyes is easily one of most experienced Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) managers in the Asia Pacific region and the world. He
is head of the extremely successful Philippine operations of Sitel, the
world's largest call center organization. Among other things, he is a
founder and former president of the Business Processing Association of
the Philippines. more